# Flight Nurse I

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: St George, Utah
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $41.20 - $62.17
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Flight Nurse I provides advanced, autonomous medical care to critically ill or injured patients during air and ground transport.

This position demonstrates exceptional critical thinking, technical skills, and collaboration with healthcare professionals in dynamic and often non-traditional settings.

**Responsibilities**

- Provides advanced life support, critical care, and patient stabilization during air and ground transport, ensuring compliance with medical protocols and safety standards.

- Assesses and stabilizes critically ill or injured patients using critical thinking and autonomous decision-making in high-pressure environments.

- Performs pre-hospital, interfacility, and in-transport advanced life support, including airway management, cardiac care, and medication administration.

- Maintains and prepares medical equipment, ensures readiness for transport, and documents patient care accurately and thoroughly.

- Collaborates effectively with healthcare teams, patients, and families to ensure clear communication and continuity of care during transport.

- Adheres to safety protocols, including scene safety, air medical transport procedures, and management of altitude-related physiological challenges.

- Meets all physical, technical, and certification requirements, with a commitment to continuous professional development and obtaining CFRN certification within two years of hire or appropriate certification per specialty e.g., CNPT if Peds/NICU.

**Required Qualifications**

- State-certified Nurse with no restrictions, valid in area of operation.

- Advanced Life Support (ALS), Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and trauma care.

- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) within 120 days of hire.

- Demonstrated emergency room or critical care experience.

- Must obtain CFRN certification within two years of hire.

- Advanced certification in trauma care (e.g., TNATC, ATLS, PHTLS, TNCC) within one year of hire, or earlier if required by the state of operation.

- Strong critical thinking and autonomous decision-making abilities in emergency and high-stress situations.

- Expertise in patient care delivery, safety practices, and compassionate handling of critically ill patients.

- Effective communication and teamwork with diverse healthcare professionals and patient families.

- Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Five or more years of diverse critical care experience across various ICU specialties.

- Compact nursing license.

- Advanced certification in trauma care (e.g., TNATC, ATLS, PHTLS, TNCC).

- Experience in mentoring or training healthcare team members.

- Familiarity with advanced medical technologies and ICU-level care during transport.

**Physical Requirements**

- Must meet a pre-hire weight of less than 216 lbs by interview and maintain weight restrictions within policy.

- Ability to perform strenuous physical tasks, including lifting, bending, and transferring patients and equipment.

- Manual dexterity for operating complex medical equipment and performing life-saving procedures.

- Capability to work in confined spaces, high-stress environments, and extreme conditions, including noise, vibration, temperature, and altitude.

- Ability to pass annual physical health assessments and maintain stamina for long shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

**Benefits**

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

## Skills

### Required
- Patient Care
- Medical Procedures
- Medical Knowledge
- Patient Evaluations
- Emergency Medical Services
- Emergency Care
- Critical Care
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making Under Pressure
- Communication / Teamwork
- Advanced Life Support
- Basic Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- CFRN certification

### Nice to have
- Compact nursing license
- Advanced certification in trauma care
- Experience in mentoring or training healthcare team members
- Familiarity with advanced medical technologies and ICU-level care during transport

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