Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Flight Nursing Specialty

Specialty in Critical Care Transport

Advanced Practice Nurses with a Flight Specialty utilize ground and aeromedical transport services to provide high quality acute, critical and emergent care to patients. While inter-facility transfers are most common, Advanced Practice Critical Care Transport Nurses also deliver care in unstructured, pre-hospital environments such as along the roadside at the scene of an accident, at natural and/or manmade disaster sites and remote environments.

Educational and Career Opportunities

Students in this specialty use our unique aeromedical helicopter and ambulance simulators in both classroom and scenario-based labs to learn how to deliver safe, effective care during transport. Students will complete a clinical practicum, a portion of which will be with an aeromedical transport team. Opportunities to participate in teaching and research to promote evidence-based practice in the pre-/inter-hospital medical transport environments are also available. Our goal is to develop graduate nursing students for the Advanced Practice Nurse’s role in critical care transport.

Advance to Your Ideal Career in Just Four Semesters

As part of FPB’s MSN program, Flight Specialty courses and individualized clinical experiences build on our Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (A-G ACNP) program. The Flight Specialty program is a subspecialty requiring an additional 5-9 credits for completion.

Already enrolled in an A-G ACNP graduate program? Apply for this specialty during your final semester. Contact us at admissionsfpb@case.edu.

• Experiential learning is crafted to meet individual needs and build on educational background and experience.
• The Flight Specialty can be built as part of our DNP Program with A-G ACNP or ACNP certification
• A minimum one year of critical care nursing experience is required prior to enrolling in clinical courses for the A-G ACNP program.
• We recommend students accumulate 3-5 years of emergency and/or critical care experience by completion of the Flight Specialty program to meet critical care transport industry standards for employment.

If accepted into the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at FPB, the following courses need to be completed with the flight speciality courses. If currently enrolled in an A-G ACNP program outside of FPB, students should apply as a non-degree seeking student during the last clinical semester OR following certification and state licensure.

Summer Semester I: Flight Nursing Summer Camp

Fall Semester I

Spring Semester I

Summer Semester II: Flight Nursing Summer Camp & Classes

Fall Semester II

Additional Required Classes (taken after completing the MSN)

Accumulated Total Hours: 44-48

Note: The above curriculum is full-time; part-time plans are also available. The Advanced Practice Core courses (NURS 430, 453, 459) are co-requisites or pre-requisites for clinical nursing courses. Clinical nursing courses must be taken in the semester and sequence listed above. Clinical course availability is based upon enrollment.

* = Intensive Course, see MSN Intensives general schedule online for more information
** = Flight nursing specialty
^ = Clinical Course