#Flight Nurse

[nocternalrandomness]

”Flying Nurses”

Members of the U.S. Army Flight Nurse Corps in 1943, displaying the various types of Army Nurse Corps uniforms. From left to right, 2nd Lt. Wilma Vinsant, in regulation blue winter uniform, Army Nurse Corps; 2nd Lt. Edith M. Roe; 2nd Lt. Ethel Guffey; 2nd Lt. Jane Orme, winter flying suit and 2nd Lt. Adela Besse, the gray flying suit with slacks. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)

[67-romeo]

[captainflyingtoaster]

The minor-est of setbacks.

There was some miscommunication between myself and the AMCC provider. It turns out I can't do the written exam and skills day for that course until 10 January. On the plus side, I can renew my Pediatric Advanced Life Support card that day, and take my EMT skills test if needed, as well. (it's probably needed. I think. At the moment.)

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"Trauma Junkie" by Janice Hudson, RN book recommendation by Rachel Sylvan, RN

[crow-quet]

so for fankids how about SquirrelFlight x Ashfur?? :) lolz just kidding what about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash?

i dont look at who sends questions until after i read asks and it got cut off after the first part in my notifs so i literally looked at my phone like this when i checked LMFAOOOOO

YA WISE GUY ......

anyways

flutterdash .... my original OTP for the past 13 years ...... god i love them so much. theyre always fun to design hypokids for <333

[crimeronan]

one fun fact about devin is that they would make a legitimately Great EMT. unfortunately they live in a horror-fantasy narrative where they're in hell forever.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Gosh, listening to beautiful, epic music makes me want to go on an adventure, why can’t I be a resistance member or go on missions and difusiqqowhf

I’ve definitely been away from work too long lol

[perenlop]

oh so when moth flight has kittens as a medicine cat and gives them away to strangers, one of which let his own son die and considered killing babies, because she can’t deal and somehow cant ask her clanmates to help, shes noble and brave and wise and shaped things for generations to come and she gets to die peacefully with all her children being like “wow mom that was so cool of you, we’re so happy and you are so smart and epic”, but when leafpool has kittens as a medicine cat and gives them to her sister who she knows wont mistreat them, she’s treated like shit by most people around her and shes so unforgivable that her children can’t help but snark about this at her funeral and shes almost sent to cat hell. ok

[stuckinapril]

I’m afraid she’s busting out the straightener again

[footprintsinthesxnd]

USAAF Flight Nurses

So as I’m currently collabing with @major-mads on a fic where our two ocs are flight nurses I thought I do a little post about them as they aren’t well know. I’ve also had a passion for ww2 nurses, including flight nurses and so I’ve really enjoyed sharing my flight nurse knowledge with Mads as we have written our fic. These woman were truly amazing, like many woman during ww2, so I thought I do a little factual post about them.

Before World War II, the U.S. military showed little interest in using aircraft and flight nurses to evacuate wounded soldiers to rear areas. However, the global war forced the US to revolutionise military medical care through the development of air evacuation, which was later known as aeromedical evacuation and flight nurses.

With the rapid expansion of USAAF air transport routes around the world it was made possible to fly wounded and sick servicemen quickly to hospitals far from the front lines. This helped save the lives of many wounded men, and the introduction of flight nurses helped make it possible.

Due to a pressing need for this service, the USAAF created medical air evacuation squadrons and started a rush training program for flight surgeons, medics and flight nurses at Bowman Field, near Louisville, Kentucky.

The increasing need for flight nurses became critical after the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942, however many of the nurses at Bowman Field had not finished their training. Nevertheless, the USAAF sent these nurses to North Africa on Christmas Day.

On Feb. 18, 1943, the U.S. Army Nurse Corps' first class of flight nurses formally graduated at Bowman Field.

Due to the C47s used as air evacuation also transported military supplies, they could not display the Red Cross. This meant that without any markings to indicate their non-combat status, these evacuation flights were vulnerable to enemy attacks. For this reason, flight nurses and medical technicians were volunteers.

To prepare for any emergency, flight nurses learned crash procedures, received survival training, and studied the effects of high altitude on various types of patients. They also had to be in top physical condition to care for patients during these rigorous flights.

Eventually, about 500 Army nurses served as members of 31 medical air evacuation transport squadrons operating worldwide. It is a tribute to their skill that of the 1,176,048 patients air evacuated throughout the war, only 46 died en route. Seventeen flight nurses lost their lives during the war.

The Flight Nurses Creed

I will summon every resource to prevent the triumph of death over life. I will stand guard over the medicines and equipment entrusted to my care and ensure their proper use. I will be untiring in the performances of my duties and I will remember that, upon my disposition and spirit, will in large measure depend the morale of my patients. I will be faithful to my training and to the wisdom handed down to me by those who have gone before me.I have taken a nurse's oath, reverent in man's mind because of the spirit and work of its creator, Florence Nightingale. She, I remember, was called the "Lady with the Lamp." It is now my privilege to lift this lamp of hope and faith and courage in my profession to heights not known by her in her time. Together with the help of flight surgeons and surgical technicians, I can set the very skies ablaze with life and promise for the sick, injured, and wounded who are my sacred charges. ...This I will do. I will not falter in war or in peace.

Here are a few of the real flight nurses from ww2 from left upper: Second Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott, upper right: first Lieutenant Suella Bernard.

Elsie S. Ott - As the flight nurse on the first intercontinental air evacuation flight, she demonstrated the potential of air evacuation in January 1943. She was an Army nurse who had never flown in an airplane and had no air evacuation training, she successfully oversaw the movement of five seriously ill patients from India to Washington, D.C. This six-day trip would have normally taken three months by ship and ground transportation. For her actions on this historic flight, Ott received the first Air Medal presented to a woman, and she also received formal flight nurse training.

Suella Bernard - On March 22, 1945, two CG-4A gliders landed in a clearing near the bridgehead at Remagen, Germany, to evacuate 25 severely injured American and German casualties. Once the gliders were loaded, C-47 transports successfully snatched them from their landing site and towed them to a military hospital in France. In the second glider, Suella who had volunteered for the mission, cared for the wounded en route. One of the first two nurses to fly into Normandy after the D-Day invasion, Bernard became the only nurse known to have participated in a glider combat mission during World War II. For this mission, she received the Air Medal.

Upper left: first Lieutenant Aleda E.Lutz Upper right: first Lieutenant Mary L. Hawkins

Aleda E. Lutz - One of the most celebrated flight nurses of World War II, she flew 196 missions and evacuated over 3,500 men. In November 1944, during an evacuation flight from the front lines near Lyon, France, her C-47 crashed killing all aboard. Aleda was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Mary L. Hawkins - On Sept. 24, 1944, she was evacuating 24 patients from the fighting at Palau to Guadalcanal when the C-47 ran low on fuel. The pilot made a forced landing in a small clearing on Bellona Island. During the landing, a propeller tore through the fuselage and severed the trachea of one patient. Hawkins made a suction tube from various items including the inflation tube from a "Mae West." With this, she kept the man's throat clear of blood until aid arrived 19 hours later. All of her patients survived. For her actions, Hawkins received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

I hope you’ve all found this interesting and now have a greater understanding of flight nurses. If you’d like to read a fic on flight nurses please check out my fic ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ and @major-mads fic ‘A Pair of Silver Wings’ a Masters of the Air collab.

[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 4: Career

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[claudeng80]

Temporary Duty (WWII AU)

Sequel to Consequences

Shirayuki fills in the pulse rate on the patient’s new chart and snaps her watch closed. One of these days she’ll get the glass fixed- the chip in it from her plane crash makes the second hand hard to read between 8 and 9- but she only thinks of it when she’s in the middle of something important. Like triage.

“That’s a nice steady pulse, at least,” she says, followed by a pause for the interpreter to echo the information. While the man’s face doesn’t show much in the way of relief, his body says otherwise. Taking his pulse again right now would probably shave five BPM off the rate. “Can you tell me again when the chest pain began?”

She can follow about half of what he explains after the months in Algeria and the time she’s been back in France, but her command of the language is still not what she wishes it was. She can get around and manage basic politeness, but she’s far from being able to manage without the interpreter. Still, it’s better than with the German patients, where she’s dependent on the interpreter for everything.

With his initial charting complete, the corpsmen and guards will see the patient off to an examination room where the doctor and a French nurse will work on a diagnosis. With the POW hospital not knowing just how long they’d have the extra support on TD, they’re understandably reluctant to integrate any flight nurses into their process. So intake and processing is what Shirayuki will be doing until further notice. She has to admit it’s nice seeing some minor injuries for once.

The next patient promises to be one of those, by the notes at the top of his chart. Jalil Attali, an Algerian national, injured in a prisoner transport crash. He’s ambulatory, entering the room on silent footsteps behind the guard, who stations himself in the corner of the room. The patient sits on the exam table, a pressure wrap around his wrist the only sign of why he’s at the hospital.

And Shirayuki knows that face.

The translator asks for his name, and Obi answers. Her heart leaps at the sound of his voice, even with an unfamiliar accent, crashing just as quickly. She can’t know him, not here. He has to be a patient like any other. “I’m going to check your temperature, Mr. Attali.” The translator echoes her words, and he opens his mouth obediently for the thermometer.

As much as she’s hated being so far from him, being so close is torture. She brushes his lip taking back the thermometer, and can’t kiss him. His pupils dilate in the light, blessedly evenly, but he won’t meet her eyes. When she puts the blood pressure cuff on his arm, there’s a long new scar there she’s never seen before.

“Would you tell me about the crash, please?” She jots down the interpreter’s explanations. No, he wasn’t thrown free of the vehicle. No, he did not hit his head. She unwraps the bandaged wrist and while it’s swollen, the bruising is exactly consistent with his account. Like everything else about his charade, it’s perfect. One Vichy ex-official on his way to a prison camp, sidetracked by a minor injury. Is he looking for someone? Someone in her hospital? She can’t ask, and she’ll probably never find out. “The doctor will see you in just a few minutes. Please take him to room two,” she adds to the guard, and everyone stands.

This is when Obi disappears again. His footsteps are already silent and she feels the sting of tears, but just as he passes her, both the interpreter and the guard are facing the door.

One hand darts out, quick as a snake striking. His fingers slot between hers and she swallows a gasp. Longing, she meets his eyes and they twinkle. His lips move silently, three words she can’t hear but her heart can guess, and then the face of Jalil Attali drops back over Obi like a mask, and he’s gone.

[70zcowboy]

new (one of my) favorite actors just dropped

[captainflyingtoaster]

One down, a whole bunch to go

I'm just a smidge behind my desired timeline. I had intended to submit my NREMT application over the weekend, but life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

As of a few minutes ago, my application for national EMT certification was on NREMT's rhetorical desk. They're going to look over my refresher course certificates and my lapsed EMT cert, then send me a bill and give me permission to take the exam(s). Even at this point, I am not entirely clear as to whether I only need to take the written, or if I have to take the practical exam as well

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I've made some more progress on my Air Medical Crew Course. There are a total of 40 short answer and 10 essay questions; I've completed 8 of the former and none of the latter, yet. I'd like to get through it by the end of the week so I can set my exam for it, and have time to study for the Critical Care certification I have scheduled for the 22nd.

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I was expressing to the flight crew's educator (who is a good friend of mine) that I wanted to get some hands-on practice with intubations. I've intubated HUNDREDS of manikins, but real humans are a different ball game.

The vast majority of the time, I'd be the backup airway management person on the flight team - the flight paramedic will have had much more training and experience. However, there may come a time that I'm on a flight with myself and another flight nurse who is also a "paper medic," and I want to be prepared.

The traditional way to get that sort of practice is to work with an anesthesiologist and intubate patients going in for surgery. My educator friend said that those opportunities are few and far between these days (I'm still going to try, though).

My friend WAS able to get me signed up for an all day, hands-on advanced airway course that's free, and I can do on company time. I'm looking forward to taking that on 09 January.

[barbylion]

bowkylion queen of employment

[nfcomics]

STORM no.2 • cover art • Mateus Manhanini [Nov 2024]

STORM is dying. An unknown form of radiation poisoning from the OKLAHOMA INCIDENT has turned her cells into ticking time bombs. As her final hours count down, will she find a cure for her illness at NIGHT NURSE's new super-hero hospital, or will it require enchantments from DOCTOR VOODOO to save her life?

LCY no.13

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