Flight nurse, five years. The part people get wrong is thinking the…

Brianna Castellanos · Flight Nurse at Bayou Air Medical · Baton Rouge, LA

Flight nurse, five years. The part people get wrong is thinking the flying is the hard bit. The flying is Hank being quietly excellent while I run a critical patient in a space the size of a bathtub at 500 feet. My job is the bathtub. His job is making the bathtub boring.

2 comments

Hank Delacroix

Making the bathtub boring is the best description of my job I have ever read and I am going to use it forever.

Shayla Boone

Medicine in a moving aircraft with nobody to hand it to. That is the whole job on the cabin side too, minus the medicine.