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Speaker 2: Oddly enough, and this is gonna sound so funny, I
Speaker 2: am a baseball field person. Like I look for a
Speaker 2: baseball field every time we take off.
Speaker 3: Oh look, there's a baseball field.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the softball player in me, but I like
Speaker 2: love to see them from up high.
Speaker 3: That's Asia b. She's thirty years old, lives in Maryland,
Speaker 3: and technically speaking, she's a critical care transport nurse at
Speaker 3: a large pediatric hospital in Philadelphia. But Asia's version of
Speaker 3: critical care transport nursing is quite unique because she's what's
Speaker 3: referred to in her line of work as a flight nurse.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, a flight nurse is someone who essentially goes
Speaker 2: and picks up patients in aircraft that can either be
Speaker 2: a helicopter, it could be a fixed wing or any
Speaker 2: of those kind of vehicles that fly.
Speaker 3: In honor of International Nurses Day, I spoke with Asia
Speaker 3: about her job as a fly, why she fell in
Speaker 3: love with such a risky career, and how she balances
Speaker 3: the demands of such an intense job with motherhood and
Speaker 3: everything else she's got going on in life. And if
Speaker 3: you've never heard of flight nursing, you're not alone, because
Speaker 3: prior to taking this job, neither had Asia. But as
Speaker 3: an experienced er nurse and a self described thrill seeker,
Speaker 3: Asia knew the moment she heard that you could take
Speaker 3: care of patients while soaring through the air. That she'd
Speaker 3: found the job for her. There was only one little issue.
Speaker 3: She'd never been in a helicopter before. Tell me about
Speaker 3: that first flight you took. Were you nervous?
Speaker 2: So we got a page and they send you an
Speaker 2: alert saying this is dispatch, this is the patient and
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, you guys are going to go up
Speaker 2: for a flight today. And I was like what. They're like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're going to go up in the helicopter today.
Speaker 3: And then, as she explained it, things started getting real.
Speaker 3: She and her team take the elevator to the top
Speaker 3: floor of the hospital and then walk out to the helipad.
Speaker 3: It's cold and it's windy, and her adrenaline is pumping.
Speaker 2: And then the nurse who had came with that crew
Speaker 2: is like, oh, is this your first flight.
Speaker 3: I'm like yep.
Speaker 2: She was like, oh okay, Like here's the you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you the parts of the helicopter. Stay
Speaker 2: in the front, don't walk towards the back. It's kind
Speaker 2: of like when you're having a baby. They're telling you
Speaker 2: all these things and you're like, I can't focus, like
Speaker 2: and then I must have got too far away. She
Speaker 2: was like, stay close, member.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh God, I forgot already for Asia.
Speaker 3: That uncertainty, that big question mark at the beginning of
Speaker 3: each day is one of the best parts of the job.
Speaker 3: But it's a job not without risks. You have a son,
Speaker 3: right I do.
Speaker 2: He's a five year old and my son's name is Tate.
Speaker 3: Does your son worry about you going up in the helicopter?
Speaker 2: He's my son is so I don't know if he
Speaker 2: actually has grasped the idea that I am like that
Speaker 2: it's so dangerous in his mind. You know, when you're
Speaker 2: that young, Oh, the beauty of innocence, You just don't understand.
Speaker 3: This is dangerous.
Speaker 2: Mommy's job is dangerous.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing. Well, this episode is about Asia,
Speaker 3: it's also about nurses everywhere. It's about those millions of
Speaker 3: men and women who put on their nurses scrupts each
Speaker 3: day and do their jobs, no matter how difficult or
Speaker 3: exhausting or downnight dangerous it might be. At the height
Speaker 3: of the pandemic, entire cities came to a standstill as
Speaker 3: people banged pots and pans and screamed in praise of nurses.
Speaker 3: And doctors and other frontline workers. Maybe you were one
Speaker 3: of those people who, at seven o'clock every night shouted
Speaker 3: out your window or stomped up and down on your
Speaker 3: fire scheme in praise of our frontline workers, in praise
Speaker 3: of our heroes. And as things return to a sense
Speaker 3: of normalcy, I'm wondering if we can't find some way
Speaker 3: to continue thanking those people, people like Asia, who we
Speaker 3: turn to in are times of need. If you'd like
Speaker 3: to thank Asia, you can check her out on our
Speaker 3: website Motheringdemama dot com. For on the job, I'm Avery Thompson.
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