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46FX Flight Nurse

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Overview

A flight nurse provides emergency and prehospital care to injured Airmen during aeromedical evacuation flights. As a senior aeromedical evacuation team member, the nurse helps plan each mission and oversees patient comfort and safety through final deplaning.

Core Skills

  • Patient-care supply and equipment coordination
  • Aeromedical evacuation policy and planning input
  • Clinical and operational research support

Civilian Career Paths

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Acute Care Nurses

Professional medical-surgical nursing and comprehensive patient care during aeromedical evacuation transfer to hospital acute-care nursing.

How to prepare: Compare your existing nursing education, licenses and credentials with the intended state's licensing rules and the employer's acute-care competency expectations to identify any gaps. An RN license issued by the state of practice is required, and state requirements vary.

What the civilian work involves
  • Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: FLIGHT NURSE (46FX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "FLIGHT NURSE"; normalized cached text lines 8663-8685; family-level section (46F4, 46F3, 46F1)

    Supports: Patient-care supply and equipment coordination, Aeromedical evacuation policy and planning input, Clinical and operational research support, Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

  2. O*NET: Acute Care Nurses

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses

    [3] What They Do; Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; Advancement; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

Defense contractor jobs for 46FX

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