Job Description
Title: Flight Nurse,
Neonatal???-
Per Diem
Location: Fort
Lauderdale, Florida
Shift: Day/Night
Rotation.
Assigned hard days off
SUMMARY:
REVA Inc, is a US based air ambulance company with established flight
operations internationally. We operate air ambulanceaircrafts conducting medium and long-range air ambulance
flights.
DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
Duties:
- Evaluation, coordination, and delivery of medical care provided to patients during transport
- is familiar with the scope of practice of the transport team members and the State rules and regulations in which the transport team operates
- Works with the other transport team members to coordinate care of the patient during transport; once called, readily available/arrive at specified location, within 45 minutes before wheels
Responsibilities:
- Provides pre-hospital advanced life support care from initial contact until patient care is relinquished to the receiving medical facility
- Maintain thorough electronic charting of patient care.
- Attends pre-mission briefings and mission debriefing and completes necessary documentation.
- Complies with safety standards to assure safety of self, medical personnel, patient, and equipment prior to takeoff.
- Must be familiar with scope of practice of the transport team and the State rules and regulations in which the transport team operates.
Administrative Duties:
- Must maintain per diem flight nurse status. (provide 6 days of availability per month).
- Obtain a comprehensive understanding of the patient’s medical condition
- Determine the most appropriate medical crew for transporting the patient
- Dispatch our medical crew for each flight
- Remain in constant contact with the medical crew during flight if necessary as well as dispatch
- Acquire and review medical records for impending patient transports as available
- Communicate with medical insurance companies when necessary
- Ensure that air medical crews receive all of the necessary information to conduct the safest, most efficient air medical missions
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and organize tasks in a fast-paced setting with excellent written and verbal communication abilities
- Ability to work independently and as a team member when required
- Communicates with the Medical Director and/or Program Director regularly and as needed on all flight issues
- During the MC shift or assigned flight schedule, all assigned collateral duties are to be completed each week
- The medical coordinator will check out all transport equipment to the medical crew and check the equipment back in at the completion of every flight. Missing or damaged equipment is to be reported promptly
- All paperwork for a particular flight is to be prepared for the medical crew prior to departure
- Dispense money from petty cash to pilots as needed/requested.
- Other Duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of ICU/ED/Trauma experience within the last 5 years
- Minimum of 3 years of NICU experience within the last 5 years
- Previous flight experience preferred. Flight experience can be substituted year for year for the ICU/ED/Trauma requirement
- RN license as appropriate to assigned location
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification
- Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) or Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS) certification preferred but not required
- Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), Critical Care Nurse (CCRN)?or Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) strongly recommended.
- Current Passport required
- Ability to work varied shifts and cover fixed wing air ambulance call shifts
- Drug screening and a background investigation required
Physical:
While performing the duties of this job, the
employee is frequently required to do the
following
- Walk and stand for prolonged periods
- Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Transfer/position patients of all ages and physical conditions
- Collect, interpret, and/or analyze diagnostic data
- Utilize visual, auditory, verbal, and olfactory processes required to assess, monitor, and care for patients
- Interpret complex laws, regulations, and/or policies
- Coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously
- Understand and respond to a diverse population
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.?
- Frequent exposure to blood-borne and airborne pathogens or infectious materials
- Long transport times in the confined space of the aircraft
- Exposure to dynamic cultural diversity
ABOUT REVA:
In the medical transport
industry, urgency, reliability, and experience areabsolutely
critical.
We have completed over 30,000 flights in 70 countries. From
marooned hikers to critically ill patients, REVA provides medical
transport service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. When
patients need care that cannot be provided during normal travel or
in the region they are currently in, they call REVA. REVA’s reach
is worldwide. Four bases of operation within North America, the
Caribbean, and Europe provide points of departure convenient to
even the most distant locales. Our 13 dedicated ICU configured
Jets, more than 200 air-ambulance professionals, and Global
Alliance with industry partners give us a global profile. If it’s
on the Earth, it’s on our radar.
REVA is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates employees and applicants of all identities, backgrounds, abilities, and perspectives. We foster a welcoming work environment that supports diversity and inclusion, and we reject discrimination or harassment of any individual. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance with any part of the application process, please let us know. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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