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General Principles of Flight Transport Nursing Practice
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Resuscitation Principles
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Trauma
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Medical Emergencies
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Special Populations
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Exam Sections Covered in BoardCerts CFRN Question Bank
Comprehensive coverage of all exam domains with detailed topic breakdowns to ensure your success.
General Principles of Flight Transport Nursing Practice
- Transport Physiology: Understanding physiological stressors such as vibration, altitude changes, and noise affecting both crew and patients.
- Scene Operations Management: Ensuring scene safety and managing landing zone operations.
- Communications: Proficiency in radio operations, patient handoff procedures, and crew resource management.
- Safety and Survival: Knowledge of emergency locator transmitters (ELT), navigation tools, survival principles post-crash, and handling transport vehicle emergencies.
- Disaster Management: Preparedness for natural disasters, terrorism, industrial accidents, transportation accidents, and mass casualty incidents.
- Professional Issues: Familiarity with legal and ethical considerations, including HIPAA, EMTALA, consent, mandatory reporting, and psychosocial aspects in transport.
- Systems Management: Engagement in quality management, fostering a just culture, promoting a healthy work environment, and participating in outreach and community education.
Resuscitation Principles
- Assessment and Patient Preparation: Conducting thorough physical assessments, evaluating pain and comfort, and preparing patients for transport.
- Airway Management: Assessing and managing airways, addressing difficulties, and performing rapid sequence induction for intubation, including pharmacology.
- Mechanical Ventilation: Managing both invasive and non-invasive ventilation techniques.
- Perfusion: Understanding components of oxygen delivery, managing various types of shock (hypovolemic, obstructive, distributive, cardiogenic), and addressing acid-base imbalances.
Trauma
- Principles of Management: Analyzing mechanisms of injury, implementing hemostasis techniques, and understanding the trauma triad (hypothermia, acidosis, coagulopathies).
- Neurologic Trauma: Managing traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and preventing secondary brain injury.
- Thoracic Trauma: Addressing chest wall, pulmonary, cardiac, and great vessel injuries.
- Abdominal Trauma: Managing injuries to hollow and solid organs, diaphragmatic injuries, retroperitoneal injuries, and abdominal compartment syndrome.
- Musculoskeletal Trauma: Treating vertebral and pelvic injuries, compartment syndrome, rhabdomyolysis, amputations, and extremity injuries.
- Burns: Managing chemical, electrical, thermal, radiological burns, and inhalation injuries.
- Maxillofacial and Neck Trauma: Addressing facial injuries, ocular injuries, and blunt or penetrating neck injuries.
Medical Emergencies
- Neurologic Emergencies: Managing seizure disorders, ischemic strokes, neuromuscular disorders, and space-occupying lesions.
- Cardiovascular Emergencies: Addressing acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, dysrhythmias, aortic abnormalities, and mechanical/circulatory support.
- Pulmonary Emergencies: Managing restrictive and obstructive airway diseases, pulmonary embolism, and pulmonary hypertension.
- Abdominal Emergencies: Treating abdominal compartment syndrome, gastrointestinal bleeding, and conditions affecting hollow and solid organs.
- Electrolyte Disturbances: Identifying and managing various electrolyte imbalances.
- Metabolic and Endocrine Emergencies: Addressing diabetic emergencies, neuroendocrine disorders, thyroid conditions, and adrenal disorders.
- Hematologic Emergencies: Managing coagulopathies and anemias.
- Renal Emergencies: Treating acute kidney injury and chronic renal failure.
- Infectious and Communicable Diseases: Managing sepsis and implementing infection control measures.
- Environmental and Toxicological Emergencies: Addressing allergic reactions, temperature-related injuries, submersion injuries, evolved gas disorders, bites, envenomation, and toxicological emergencies.
Special Populations
- Obstetrical Patients: Managing trauma, medical complications of pregnancy, pharmacological considerations, and delivery and postpartum care.
- Neonatal/Pediatric Patients: Addressing trauma, medical emergencies, and pharmacological considerations specific to these age groups.
- Geriatric Patients: Managing trauma, medical conditions, and pharmacological considerations pertinent to older adults.
- Bariatric Patients: Handling logistical issues, skin care, airway management, and pharmacological considerations for bariatric patients.
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