Pugh D
Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)-Western Operations, PO Box 261, Maddington, 6989, Western Australia.
Accid Emerg Nurs. 2000 Jul;8(3):141-3. doi: 10.1054/aaen.2000.0151.
The purpose of this paper is to describe in the broadest sense the scope of flight nursing practice in the Western Australian context. The Royal Flying Doctor Service--Western Operations provides aeromedical and associated health services, through primary health clinics to persons living in remote and rural areas of Western Australia. Flight nurses provide a significant contribution to fulfilling the core business of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and in doing so demonstrate that they are able to combine the diversity and speciality that is flight nursing, with the challenges not only of the aviation environment, but of the diversity and remoteness of the physical environment that they may find themselves in.
本文旨在从最广泛的意义上描述西澳大利亚地区飞行护理实践的范围。皇家飞行医生服务组织——西部运营部通过初级保健诊所，为居住在西澳大利亚偏远和农村地区的人们提供空中医疗及相关健康服务。飞行护士为实现皇家飞行医生服务组织的核心业务做出了重大贡献，在此过程中，他们展示了自己能够将飞行护理的多样性和专业性，与不仅是航空环境，还有他们所处的自然环境的多样性和偏远性所带来的挑战相结合。
