Provides disease and disability education, care, and evaluation of nursing care. Participates in and leads the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
Performs assessment and analysis of patient health status, identifies health goals, recognizes subtle changes in conditions, interprets these changes, and immediately determines appropriate course of action. Supervises personnel, conducts training, and creates duty schedules.
Provides training to medical and non-medical personnel; training may include areas such as emergency medical technician and required basic life support training. Performs duty as an IDMT at home station and deployed locations, remote sites and alternate care locations. Renders medical, dental, and emergency treatment; recommends and coordinates evacuations for definitive medical treatment. Performs pharmacy, laboratory, bioenvironmental, immunizations, public health, medical logistics and medical administration duties.
Establishes preceptorship and provides forward area health care IAW applicable guidelines in an austere or bare-base environment. Functions as an aeromedical evacuation crewmember AECM. Prepares patients, equipment and aircraft for flight. Enplanes and deplanes patients. Loads and unloads baggage. Operates specialized aircraft flight equipment, medical devices and aircraft systems related to patient care. Allergy: Manages immunotherapy care and performs diagnostic tests as ordered by physician.
Performs allergy skin and anergy testing. Immunization: Manages computer based patient information. Performs tuberculosis testing. Administers vaccines IAW current guidelines. Provides emergency care for treatment of anaphylaxis. Provides patient education regarding expected reactions and proper post-vaccination care.
Provides oversight of immunization processes and programs. Performs neurodiagnostic duties. Assists physician with and prepares patients for examination, treatment, and diagnostic procedures. Assembles, operates, maintains and performs routine user maintenance of electroencephalographic and electromyographic equipment. Assists in performing special electroencephalographic and electromyographic procedures.
Ensures appropriate care and storage of tracings and reports. Performs critical care duties. Prepares patient with special equipment for transfers. Performs and assists with examinations and special procedures including mechanical ventilation, cardiovascular and neurovascular procedures and dialysis.
Performs hyperbaric medical duties. Prepares patients and equipment for hyperbaric dive. Provides wound care debridement. Prepares hyperbaric chamber and properly positions patients. Functions as hyperbaric dive crewmember. Assists hyperbaric nurse or provider with patient care during dive. Provides emergency care for patients in event of medical or hyperbaric chamber emergencies. Performs Dialysis Medical Technician duties. Prepares patient and performs procedures using specialized renal dialysis equipment.
Performs flight and operational medicine duties. Assists flight surgeon with aircraft mishap and physiological incident response, investigation, and reporting. Supports flight surgeon to develop flying safety and deployment briefings. Assists healthcare provider teams with interpretation and application of medical standards to determine medical qualifications for occupational duty, worldwide duty, special operation duty, mobility status, flying status, special duty, security clearance, professional military education PME , retraining, commissioning, and transition to Air Force Reserves or Air National Guard.
Provides administrative management of duty limiting conditions reports. Provides first point of contact for non-empanelled patients requiring physical examinations i. Performs preventive health assessment PHA physicals for flying status and non-flying status personnel and updates results of required tests and examinations into ASIMS. For entry into this specialty, completion of high school is required with courses in general science, biology, psychology, and chemistry is desirable.
B Neurodiagnostic Medical Technician. C Independent Duty Medical Technician. F Flight and Operational Medical Technician. Are you in this AFSC? Would you be interested in being interviewed on the Forever Wingman Podcast? If you have questions or comments relating to enlisting in the Air Force, consider joining the Forever Wingman Facebook Group.
What does a 4N0X1 do? We'll do vital signs on our patients as soon as possible so we can get, kind of, the baseline for them and know where to expect them the rest of the flight. Today we started with a patient who was in one of the stanchions. They were late on their litter and one of our medical technicians walked up to the patient, noticed that they weren't breathing. And we are the only military branch that offers this type of job.
We have a I highly suggest the job that I do. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world, knowing that you're bringing somebody back home to better care, and helping save a life. X Tap to Close What can we help you find? Main Menu ESC x. Cadet Paige Herbst. Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Abdallah. Petty Officer 2nd Class Cody Greer. Corporal Brooke Dieters. Sergeant Brian Threat. Speaker 1: Set her down. Senior Airman Kyle Knox: Stands coming down. Speaker 2: I have no airway.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get him out of here. Senior Airman Kyle Knox: More person. Speaker 3: I got this side.
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