The professional quality of life of flight nurses: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The role of a Flight Nurse is specialised; they must have both education and experience to fulfil the requirements of the role. Mastering these skills takes time, thus long-term retention is essential. When nurses experience their work as more fulfilling, they are more inclined to remain within a role for an extended period.

Integrative Review of Non-Technical Skills Frameworks to Apply for Air Medical Transfer of Pregnant Women.

Objective: To identify the most suitable non-technical skills framework to adapt and apply to the air medical transfer of pregnant women.

Data Sources: Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, Science Direct, and Google Scholar.

Study Selection: We retrieved potentially relevant articles using a predefined combination of keywords extended with truncation and Boolean operators.

Non-technical skills evaluation in the critical care air ambulance environment: introduction of an adapted rating instrument--an observational study.

Background: In the isolated and dynamic health-care setting of critical care air ambulance transport, the quality of clinical care is strongly influenced by non-technical skills such as anticipating, recognising and understanding, decision making, and teamwork. However there are no published reports identifying or applying a non-technical skills framework specific to an intensive care air ambulance setting. The objective of this study was to adapt and evaluate a non-technical skills rating framework for the air ambulance clinical environment.

Fatigue in Air Medical Clinicians Undertaking High-acuity Patient Transports.

Abstract Background. Fatigue is likely to be a significant issue for air medical transport clinicians due to the challenging nature of their work, but there is little published evidence for this. Objective.

Air transport by the Wellington Flight Service: a descriptive analysis of interhospital transfers over a 5-year period in the Wellington region of New Zealand.

Aim: To describe and characterise the interhospital transport workload of a New Zealand based flight service over a 5-year period.

Method: Wellington Flight Service database records from 1 November 2005 to 31 October 2010 were reviewed. Details of mission purpose, timings, transport type, severity of illness, clinical service requesting the transfer, and medical crew in attendance, were examined.

Symptom-based categorization of in-flight passenger medical incidents.

Introduction: The majority of in-flight passenger medical events are managed by cabin crew. Our study aimed to evaluate the reliability of cabin crew reports of in-flight medical events and to develop a symptom-based categorization system.

Methods: All cabin crew in-flight passenger medical incident reports for an airline over a 9-yr period were examined retrospectively.

Duration of condition is unrelated to health-state valuation on the EuroQoL.

Objective: To determine whether health valuations, such as those used in economic evaluation, are affected by duration of a health condition. People with disabling health conditions tend to value health more highly than members of the general population, and one explanation for this is that over time their experience of living with a disabling illness changes the way in which they value health. If this is so, a relationship between the duration of an individual's disabling health condition and the valuation they assign to their health-state might reasonably be expected.