FLIGHT NURSE RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 15, 2025 – The Flight Nurse delivers developmentally appropriate, evidence-based care during air and ground transport, adjusting therapies in response to changes in patient condition. This position coordinates with multidisciplinary teams to ensure smooth, individualized transitions of care while extending hospital resources through outreach and education. The nurse also monitors quality outcomes, contributes to performance improvement initiatives, and ensures strict adherence to safety regulations and clinical standards.

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1. Flight Nurse, AirMed International, Birmingham, AL

Job Summary: 

  • Delivers quality patient care, utilizing the nursing process (assessment, implementation, and evaluation) to guide care delivery.
  • Executes, revises, and evaluates the Vidant Medical Center Nursing Professional Practice Model and Model of Care.
  • Delivers to support professional practice and collaborative partnerships with each other, physicians, and members of the healthcare team.
  • Engages in professional growth and development, continuing competence and lifelong learning, quality of care, and research to positively affect empirical outcomes.
  • Participates in a leadership role in community partnerships and collaborative initiatives, such as professional organizations and community outreach programs.
  • Provides quality care to all patients evacuated by the Aero Medical Evacuation team
  • Complies with all Aspen/Queensland Health documented procedures
  • Checks drugs and equipment following Queensland Health Periodic Drug and Equipment Checks
  • Takes responsibility for ordering replacement stock 
  • Completes fully the orientation/handover process for the replacement Flight Nurse


Skills on Resume: 

  • Patient Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Care Implementation (Hard Skills)
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Professional Development (Soft Skills)
  • Community Leadership (Soft Skills)
  • Aero Evacuation (Hard Skills)
  • Protocol Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Medication Management (Hard Skills)

2. Flight Nurse, Reach Air Medical Services, Santa Rosa, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Functions as a member of the flight crew and ensures the safety of all crew, patients, and other passengers during transport
  • Always maintains the ability to immediately respond to requests for and conduct Altru Care Flight patient transportations in fixed-wing aircraft and/or ground ambulances, as aircraft availability dictates
  • Reports to the hospital to conduct 12-hour shifts of duty in a specifically assigned patient care unit/department while not on a transport
  • Completes tasks while not on a patient transportation to include patient co-management with unit staff, response to Code Blue, Rapid Responses, etc.
  • Provides high-quality critical care following the patient care guidelines established by the organization
  • Assesses, intervenes, and reassesses the patient's condition promptly and takes appropriate action following patient care guidelines.
  • Identifies the early warning signs of a change in a patient's condition and responds appropriately to a deteriorating patient, including contacting responsible clinicians as indicated by standard operating procedure.
  • Assists with or institutes emergency measures for sudden adverse developments in patient conditions.
  • Establishes and maintains communication and utilizes educational opportunities with patients and other significant individuals.
  • Performs other duties to meet the needs of the department/organization.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Flight Safety Operations (Hard Skills)
  • Emergency Readiness (Hard Skills)
  • Unit Support Duties (Hard Skills)
  • Critical Care Delivery (Hard Skills)
  • Patient Assessment (Hard Skills)
  • Condition Monitoring (Hard Skills)
  • Emergency Response (Hard Skills)
  • Patient Communication (Soft Skills)

3. Flight Nurse, EagleMed LLC, Wichita, KS

Job Summary: 

  • Delivers patient and family-centered care in a transport environment while incorporating developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care practices and methodologies. 
  • Assesses and adjusts therapies during transport in response to changes in patient outcomes.
  • Communicates and advocates patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of the implementation of the care plan, evaluation of care, and assessment of patient/family learning needs.
  • Builds and maintains strong working relationships with multidisciplinary healthcare providers to provide individualized patient/family care and education while minimizing risks to the patient during transitions of care. Extends hospital resources into the referring communities through clinical care, education, and outreach.
  • Researches, compiles, and analyzes data and prepares case records, reports, and correspondence to facilitate communication, clinical decision making, error prevention, and care coordination.
  • Collects, monitors, and reports on quality of care outcomes and measures, provides input into the continuous evaluation and improvement of internal quality and safety processes, procedures, and performance measures.
  • Ensures compliance with clinical policies, procedures, and best practices to minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers. 
  • Ensures compliance with all safety rules and regulations while on ground and air transport
  • Researches, identifies, and implements evidence-based practice to improve the quality of care provided to patients/families.
  • Serves on department and organization-wide committees.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Family-Centered Care (Soft Skills)
  • Therapy Adjustment (Hard Skills)
  • Patient Advocacy (Soft Skills)
  • Care Coordination (Soft Skills)
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
  • Quality Monitoring (Hard Skills)
  • Policy Compliance (Hard Skills)
  • Evidence Implementation (Hard Skills)