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EXPERIENCE REPORT
Military Nursing in “Operation Return to Brazil”: aeromedical evacuation in the coronavirus pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200297
07-13-2020
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EXPERIENCE REPORTMilitary Nursing in “Operation Return to Brazil”: aeromedical evacuation in the coronavirus pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200297
07-13-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0297
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Objective:
to describe the experience of military nursing in “Operation Return to Brazil” in an aeromedical evacuation.
Method:
this is an experience report of the nursing staff in the Aeromedical Evacuation of potentially-contaminated Brazilians who were in Wuhan, China, after the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Results:
the report was constructed from nursing care performed in three stages: pre-flight, screening, and flight. Pre-flight care would include aircraft configuration and material prediction. In screening, the staff was concerned with being properly attired. In the health assessment of returnees, in-flight, attention was focused on Personal Protective Equipment handling to minimize the risk of contamination by prolonged contact with potentially-contaminated passengers.
Final considerations:
nursing was committed to planning all the actions of this mission, which was one of the longest, strenuous and unprecedented in the history of aeromedical transport in Brazil.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Nurses’ responsibilities in the aerospace environment
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(4):e20180777
06-08-2020
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ORIGINAL ARTICLENurses’ responsibilities in the aerospace environment
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(4):e20180777
06-08-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0777
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Objectives:
to characterize the nurses who work in the aerospace environment and to identify their most frequent responsibilities during the pre-flight, flight, and post-flight periods.
Methods:
a quantitative, exploratory-descriptive research, conducted using a survey through Google forms®, from January to April of 2018, with 50 nurses from aerospace services in Brazil. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Results:
predominance of male participants (64%), mean age of 37 years, with a mean working time in the aerospace environment of six years, in helicopter (54%), and in the southern region (42%). The main pre-flight, flight, and post-flight activities were, respectively: verification/testing of equipment functionality, nursing care for patients, and replacement of supplies and equipment.
Conclusions:
In the aerospace environment, nurses’ work are primarily organizational and victim care actions, during all phases of the flight.