A Career As A Flight Nurse

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The medical field will always need people such as doctors, nurses, and any other medical professionals. This is due to the lack of people wanting to spend time and money on the education required to get one of these jobs. I, however, want to spend my time getting educated in the medical field, so I can help those in need of care. I want to be a flight nurse. The flight nurse takes two things I like and puts them into one job. It allows me to be in the air and fly around and provide immediate care to someone who otherwise might not make it to the hospital due to ground traffic, or because they aren’t close enough to a hospital specialized in what that particular patient needs to be driven by ambulance.
A flight nurse has many responsibilities,

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