Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and MetroHealth Medical Center are establishing the nation's first-ever degreed program for training flight nurses utilized in air medical transport.

Flight nursing will be offered as a concentration in the Bolton School's Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) program, a two-year program that is part of the Master of Science in Nursing degree at the Bolton School.

Students enrolling in the concentration will take master's degree courses in professional development, scientific inquiry, and advanced practice, as well as clinical courses in acute care nursing. In the final semester, students will participate in an advanced internship in flight nursing at MetroHealth, during which they will accompany flight nurses on missions with Metro LifeFlight.

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