Air Care Flight Nurse - RN

Position Summary

Orlando Health is home to Central Florida's only Level One Trauma Center. Our Air Care Team responds to the scene, transports calls, and serves all Orlando Health hospitals, providing assistance and support to other hospitals based on medical necessity. Our Air Care Team treats each patient with efficiency and compassion, facilitating an organized, multidisciplinary response system that helps patients return to their prior level of function and interaction within society. This continuum of care includes injury prevention, EMS, medical oversight of pre-hospital care, appropriate triage and transport, resuscitation and emergency care, surgical intervention, intensive and general acute care, rehabilitative services, behavioral health, social services, community re-integration plans, and medical care follow-up. Our Air Care Team is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide safe and reliable transport to our most critically ill patients.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
• Makes sure specialized equipment used on patients is monitored and adjusted, and interprets and records electronic displays like intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients' condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
• Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
• Maintains an organized status of patients within area of responsibility and closely monitors status of seriously ill patients.
• Collaborates with other healthcare team members to deliver patient care ensuring compliance with physician orders and established policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Serves as a resource supporting frontline team members and providers as appropriate.
• Performs direct patient care activities as required to meet operational needs.
• Interacts with patients and families to enhance customer experience by conducting Nurse Leader rounds and investigating and responding to patient/family and physician complaints.
• Embraces, communicates, and promotes change and problem solving.
• Maintains a regulatory ready environment of care.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree (BSN) preferred.
• Graduate from an approved Paramedic Training Center.
• Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Current unrestricted paramedic license in the state of Florida
• Maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Maintain current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Maintain current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Preferred Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)
• Preferred NRP
• Preferred CFRN, required within 6 months of hire
• Preferred CEN
• Preferred CCRN
• Preferred Air Medical Crew Core Curriculum Course (AMCCC). Required within 6 months of hire.