Looking Deeper

["Michael Stevenson" <bisonresq@hotmail.com>]

Hello All!
I want to post a lengthy (Forgive me but I can't summarize well) question to 
the group that I am wrestling with myself at the moment.  Here is the long 
and short of it:  The whole reason I went to nursing school was to become a 
flight nurse.  Now I want to know WHY. (Which I am posting to the group)  
Why FLIGHT nursing?  Is it the fact that I think it would be neat to fly 
around in a helicopter?  Do I want the "status" of being a flight nurse?  Do 
I want to be able to tell interesting stories to my friends? Do I want the 
"rush" of a trauma code?  I know several people might reply to this and say 
that they want to save lives.  Well ok, are we not saving lives in the ER, 
or in the ICU or in the back of a rig as medics?  Why FLIGHT?  What is the 
specific attraction of being in a chopper? I pose this question not 
questioning flight nursing or its legitimacy as a whole...I am just 
questioning the TRUE motivations of those that do it and those like myself 
who want to do it once they can identify an S3 gallop or be able to 
distinguish rales from rhonchi, amongst other things! I am asking the group 
to take a minute, do some serious contemplation and give me THE REAL REASONS 
WHY you are on a chopper and not in the back of an ambulance or in the 
hospital. (Because I know "it ain't for the money!")   Please don't get 
defensive or think I am being harsh.  I'm just a curious new nurse.
Mike

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