Nurses’ responsibilities in the aerospace environment - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Nurses’ responsibilities in the aerospace environment

ABSTRACT

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.

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