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
Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
NUNP 438^ | Foundations for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nursing | 4 |
NURS 453 | Advanced Pathophysiology | 4 |
NURS 459 | Advanced Physical Assessment | 3 |
NURS 444B* | Health Care Delivery and Finance in Advanced Practice | 1 |
Total | 12 |
Spring Semester I
Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
NURS 430 | Advanced Pharmacology | 3 |
NUNP 443^ | Acute Health Problems of Adults and Older Adults | 6 |
NURS 405* | Inquiry - Theoretical Foundations | 2 |
**NURS 406 | Introduction to Critical Care Transport in Advanced Nursing Practice | 1 |
NURS 444A | Ethical Issues in Advanced Nursing | 1 |
Total | 13 |
Summer Semester II: Flight Nursing Summer Camp & Classes
Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
NURS 425 | Inquiry II - Research Process | 3 |
NURS 451* | Leadership for Quality Healthcare within Organizations and Systems | 3 |
Total | 6 |
Fall Semester II
Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
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NURS 502* | Inquiry III - Evidence-Based Practice | 2 |
NUNP 444^ | Advanced Management of Acutely Ill Adults and Older Adults | 4 |
NURS 444C* | Health Policy, Legislation and Legal Issues in Advanced Practice | 1 |
**NURS 404 | Emergent Care of the Child | 2 |
**NURS 407 | Critical Care Transport in Advanced Nursing Practice | 1 |
NURS 431* | Psychosocial and Spiritual Dimensions of Advanced Nursing Practice | 2 |
Total | 12 |
Additional Required Classes (taken after completing the MSN)
Course ID | Course Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
**NURS 523^ | Advanced Practice Nursing in Critical Care Transport Practicum | 1-5 |
Total | 1-5 |
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