SEARHC Flight Nurse

SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Flight Clinicians provide direct patient care in accordance with GMR protocols and/or medical direction.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES:

• Responsible for completion and submission of electronic patient care record for each dispatched flight within specified time frame
• Responsible for assuring equipment is restocked and expiring items replaced. Additionally, accounting for narcotics before and after flights (Check in check out).
• Provide pre-hospital and intra-hospital advanced life support care from initial contact until patient care is relinquished to the accepting medical facility maintaining thorough patient care documentation
• Maintains competency in knowledge and psychomotor skills by participating in ongoing laboratory and clinical facility
• Maintain documentation of required licensure, certifications, continuing education, safety, and advanced procedures in the Employee Education Manual
• Knowledgeable in use and routine maintenance of all equipment and supplies used by emergency programs
• Maintains positive interpersonal relationships with colleagues, EMS representatives, hospitals, and the public
• Functions as a medical flight member
• Attends pre-mission briefings and mission debriefing and completes necessary documentation
• Assist in pre-flight safety checks where applicable.
• Complies with safety standards to assure safety of self, medical personnel, patient, and equipment prior to liftoff
• Conducts aircraft safety briefings as needed

OTHER DUTIES:

• May require attendance to meetings
• Undertakes and maintains projects as assigned that pertain to job specific roles
• Acts as a mentor and/or participates in orientation of new team members
• Participates in continuing education programs
• Maintains awareness of current issues related to pre-hospital care through participation in professional activities
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years' experience in an emergency or critical care setting applicable to licensure level.
• Education:
  * Current Alaska licensure or certification
  • BLS, ACLS, PALS, required prior to flight status
  • NRP preferred, required within 12 months from date of hire.
  • Instructor certifications in BLS, ACLS, PALS/PEPP, ITLS/PHTLS preferred

• Skills:
  • The knowledge, skills and abilities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret health and flight-related journals, hospital reports, and job specific legal documentation
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
  • Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry to patient care
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
  • Ability to multitask and perform effectively in a fast paced environment
  • Exhibits professionalism, is ethical and able to maintain confidentiality * Well-organized, analytical and self-directed
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to relate to and interact with people at all levels of the organization
  • Critical thinking skills with the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

WORKING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays. * Occasional extended workdays.
• Long periods of time inside an ambulance, aircraft, or other transport vehicles.
• May work indoors or outdoors with exposure to weather.
• May work in a poorly lit moving vehicle.
• Exposure to moderate noise levels.

• Physical Demands:

• Lifting, dragging, hoisting, carrying.
• Bending, stooping, squatting, sitting, walking, climbing.
• Seeing, hearing, smelling.

• Mental Requirements:

• Critical thinking skills with the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Fatigue, high pressure, exposure to stressful situations.
• Compassion and empathy.

Why Choose Guardian Flight? As a leading provider of air medical services, management and experience in the air medical industry, Guardian Flight is one of Global Medical Response's (GMR) family of solutions. Our GMR teams deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services. View the stories on how our employees provide care to the world at www.AtaMomentsNotice.com.

GMR's Core Behaviors-keep care at the center, raise your hand, seek to understand, find a way together and be accountable-unite our teams and set us apart in emergency medical services.

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