The Critical Care Transport RN provides emergency and critical care services during rotor, fixed wing, and surface transport, including mobile stroke, under direction of the nurse practitioner/physician, to referring and receiving facilities and/or agencies. During an assigned shift, the transport RN is responsible for the on-duty nurse practitioner for triage and deployment of medical management strategies and prescribed therapies. 

A caregiver in this position works Day/Night Rotation, from 6:30am—6:30pm or 6:30pm—6:30am.  

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care of individuals and document responses of prescribed therapies of patients under their care during the various phases of transport. 

• Demonstrate clinical proficiency in the management of critically ill and injured patients, through ongoing evaluation, case review and in-service training. 

• Incorporate the understanding of flight physiology, environmental influence, and limitations of unstructured environments in the plan of care. 

• Communicate with medical control nurse practitioner/physician for patient care issues and management strategies. 

• Maintain self, equipment, vehicles, and aircraft in a mission ready state immediately after each mission is completed. 

• Participate in the triage of patients and the assignment of appropriate modes of transport, with nurse practitioner oversight when assigned as the clinical coordinator. 

• Participate in educational advancement and courses self-directed or as requested by the leadership, including public relations activities as assigned. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing. 

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN). 

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). 

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Newborn Resuscitation Program (NRP) required within 6 months of hire. 

• A Transport-specific National Certification: Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN), or Certified Neonate Pediatric Transport (C-NPT) is required within 2 years of hire. 

• TNCC Trauma Nurse Critical Care (TNCC) or International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) with supplemental training course required within 1 year of hire. 

• Passport required for entry to Canada and international transports. Passport required to obtain within 1 year of hire date. 

• For Pediatric RNs (Registered Nurse) STABLE (Sugar, temperature, airway, blood pressure, lab work and emotional support) certification required within 1 year of hire. 

• three years or 4,000 hours of RN experience in a Critical Care environment (e.g., Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Department). 

• Critical Care experience must include ventilator management and invasive hemodynamic monitoring, including transvenous pacers, central venous lines, and arterial lines. 

• Three years of full-time paramedic experience with an accredited critical care transport program will equal one year of RN critical care experience for the Medic-RN bridge.  

• Paramedic experience needs to include at least 50% flight experience.  

• Pediatric experience required for pediatric specialty team positions. 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing). 

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