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107. The Fastest Way Into Flight · The Shift Podcast

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Welcome to Frontline Static, we will get to hear interviews with
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some of my clients journeys of getting into flight and how they
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utilize coaching to help them create success of getting hired
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with less confusion and more ease.
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Make your dream a reality of getting into flight.
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Listen in as you hear some of the stories of the people
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getting there and come join the Flight Prep group.
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This week's podcast episode is a replay of the webinar How to
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Jump Start Your Journey in Three Simple Steps.
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I talked to you about the three common things that I see people
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focusing on that are having them take longer or having them fail
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all together getting to flight, and the three things that you do
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want to focus on that will jump start your journey into flight.
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I have created an entire course now that you can watch online on
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demand in this three-part series.
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In this course, these three things that I talked about that
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you want to focus on are one belief and mindset and growing
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your confidence and critical thinking skills to get to
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flight. The second one is mapping out
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your plan. No matter where you are
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starting. I teach you the things that you
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want to focus on and what things you want to cut out so that you
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don't hustle and overwork to get there.
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And then the third video that you'll see is how to do ride
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alongs and make connections with flight companies.
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Now, no matter where you are starting in this, this course is
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available for you to purchase now for $97.00 and you will have
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lifetime access to this course with your own member login and
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password. If you know that flight nursing
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is what you, if you want, come join us in the Jumpstart flight
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course. You will be able to purchase
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this now and you can go to the link in the bio.
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I hope you guys enjoy this workshop and I hope that you are
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fueled to jumpstart your journey into flight journey to flight.
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That would be great. Most of you guys know me from
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Instagram. My name is Janessa.
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I help nurses and paramedics on a daily basis gain more
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confidence to get into flight nursing.
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I really work with people who know that flight flight nursing
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or flight paramedicine is really what they want to do.
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And I was a flight nurse for seven years.
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So I sat in a lot of flight interviews.
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I helped train a lot of new nurses, a lot of new paramedics
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in that time. And I know what flight companies
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are looking for. So because of this, I've created
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an entire program where I help you map out your plan and get
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there in a shorter amount of time so that you're not spending
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tons of years trying to gain a lot of time and experience.
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And we're going to talk about this.
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I meet a lot of people who are either from nursing school or
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people who have been critical care nurses for 20 to 30 years.
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And the same thoughts always come up.
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I don't know enough. I don't have enough time and
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experience. So I really have just created
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this program that can make help you get there in a simple,
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doable way and also combine the mindset portion of it where
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we're really talking about growing your confidence, working
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through imposter syndrome, working through some of these
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doubts and some of these thoughts.
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And so that's really what sets my program apart from others out
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there. OK, great.
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From Florida. Yes, ERRN, ready to move towards
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your goal. I love this.
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Like I really work with people who know that flight is what
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they want to do and they just don't know where to start.
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And so today we're going to talk about the three steps to kind of
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jump start your journey into flight.
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I'm also going to share with you the three common things that I
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see people working on that are either taking them longer or
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have them failed together. And then I'm going to point out
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the first three things to jump start your journey to flight.
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So you're really here because you know that flight nursing or
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flight paramedicine is is what you want, but you're what's
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getting in your way are thoughts and obstacles like common ones.
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I hear is I don't know enough. I don't have enough time
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experience or you just simply don't know where to start.
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I meet a lot of people that are like, I've spent hours, days on
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a daily basis Googling how to get there.
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I have so many misconstrued opinions.
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People are telling me different requirements.
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And so today I'm really going to help you set yourself straight
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and focus on these three things which will get you hired.
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I want to start out this webinar by just telling you guys that
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you belong here in flight. I know the underlying thoughts
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of I'm not good enough, I don't have enough time and experience
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is that you don't belong here. And I want you to know if this
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is a goal that you really want, it is available to you.
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And as long as you want it and you're willing to work hard for
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it, you will get it. And you belong in this industry.
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It's not for the Super smart people or the people who know
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everything. It's for the people who are
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willing to to believe that they belong there, that they're
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capable, and the people who are willing to not quit and give up.
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So I'm going to show you today on this webinar how to jump
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start your journey into flight in a simple, doable way.
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In this training. I'm going to talk to you about
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the three things that people think they need to be focusing
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on to get in the flight, but that are actually taking them
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longer or having them fail altogether or, and I'm going to
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talk to you about the three simple steps to focus on that
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actually will get you hired into flight.
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So the three things, common things that I see people look
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taking time on that have them take longer or have them fail is
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focusing on time and experience. So in the chat box, if this is
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something that you have been doing, put it in there.
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Let me know if this is you. Most people that I talked to,
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they think that they need to be working both ER and ICU.
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And so because of this, I see them jumping around from
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department to department trying to get more time and experience
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and just outrunning the thought. I don't know enough.
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And then when they try to get more time and experience, then
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they're like, OK, I did ICU for example, now let's move to ER.
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And then after they move to ER then they're like, well, I don't
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have any pediatric experience. So then they go to peeds and
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then after peeds they're like, I don't have any cardiac device
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experience. So then they move to CVICU and
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then after that they're like, well, I guess I need some pre
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hospital or my paramedic. And then they try to do pre
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hospital and it just compiles more and more and more time of
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of getting there. OK, great.
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Samantha put from New York City, 11 years ER and that you've been
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interested for a long time, but you haven't felt confident
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enough. You don't know where to start.
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OK, perfect. You're in the perfect spot.
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Samantha, I'm going to talk to you about where to start.
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And we're going to talk a little bit about why growing your
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confidence is so important in this process as well.
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Okay, so that's the first one. So when you change departments
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to departments, the way that I see this is around the one to
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two year mark is where you guys start to be a little bit more
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comfortable in the department or unit you're working in.
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So let's just say you started out in the ER and you're like
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one to two year, you're like, I'm feeling a little bit more
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comfortable. That's where I see you starting
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to jump around, but that's not where you want to jump around.
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You want to stay in the unit that you're currently in.
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And I'm going to tell you why in the next step after this, but
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This is why it's taking people longer.
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The only requirement for for flight in the United States for
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the majority of flight companies is 3 years ER or ICU experience.
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They don't even require certifications anymore.
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And because of that, I, I just see people chasing a lot of
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search, which is going to be the next thing I talk about and
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chasing a lot of different departments and time and
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experience. So the I'm going to just say it
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again, because sometimes I think you guys miss it.
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It only requires for the flight companies, United States for the
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majority of them just three years ER or ICU experience, no
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certifications and majority of them no trauma courses.
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But I see you guys spending so much time focusing on them.
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So that's the first one trying to gain all the time and
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experience. I'm going to give you a solution
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to this in in in the first step. And the the second thing that I
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see people really focusing on is gaining getting more certs.
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So I know this because people come to me and they're they say,
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OK, I'm studying for the CEN, I've already taken the CCRN.
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What's the next should I take the TCRN?
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And I sell and I tell them you actually don't need any
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certification to get hired in the flight.
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The reason why I tell them this is that flight companies are
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actually moving away from requiring this because they are
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requiring the CFRN, the certified flight nurse national
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certification within one to two years of getting hired with
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them. Now I don't even recommend
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taking it or unless you're really, really good test taker,
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just because it makes more sense to wait and take it with the
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company. They will pay for the course,
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they will pay for your study material.
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So I always say wait to take it, but they are not even requiring
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A certification. So if you are a good test taker
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and you feel like you do want to have a national cert, just get
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one. So if you work in the ER
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department, just get your CEN. If you work in the ICU, just get
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your CCRN. Don't spend extra time and
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energy and money like these courses and the materials that
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can add up to so much money getting more.
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So if you do feel like you want to have one, just get one.
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But I do want to offer you, if you are at like the two year
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mark, don't spend time studying for this.
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You want to spend time really focusing on interview prep.
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I'm helping people get hired at the 2 1/2 year mark.
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So that's why I say at two years you really want to start doing
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focusing on interview prep specifically for flight
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interviews because that's really where you want to start making
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out interviews and hopefully get hired at the 2 1/2 year mark.
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Like I said, people working with me are getting hired before the
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three-year mark. So just get one certification in
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the, I just wanted to let you guys know too, like when I was
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saying the 2 1/2 year mark, I've had four people in the last
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couple months get hired at the 2 1/2 year mark in the flight prep
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Academy. And that's because what I'm
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going to talk about next. The three things to really focus
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on, they're just focusing on those things in a simple doable
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way. Working on flight interview prep
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specifically so that when they sit in the flight interview,
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they're they are ready to go in the interview, they're confident
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and then they receive an offer. OK, So that's number two is not,
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I see people focusing on a lot of getting a lot of
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certifications and you don't want to be doing that.
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The third common mistake that I see people focusing on is taking
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all the classes. So they spend a lot, again, of
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time, money, studying energy outside of the shifts that
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they're working, really focusing on taking more trauma courses.
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And a lot of flight companies don't even require a trauma
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course. And if they do, they'll usually
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take the one that you're hospital or your department
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endorses. Or if anything, like I flew for
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a company that had their own requirement for a trauma course
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and it was the TPA TC. So they paid for me to take the
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course and to do it. So I just highly recommend if
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you do want to take a trauma course, take the one that your
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that your department or your hospital will pay for you to do
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and just use that as your trauma course.
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Because there's going to be so many different ones out there.
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And if they even require one, if they really want you enough,
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they're going to hire you and then pay for you to get it.
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OK, so those are the three things that I commonly see
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people focusing on. Here is actually what you want
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to focus on to jump start your journey into flight.
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Number one, this is really important.
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One person already mentioned this.
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They're not confident enough. Mindset is the biggest thing to
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work on getting to flight. If you don't believe that you're
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a flight nurse, other companies won't either.
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And so that's why the mindset piece is really important.
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When you come and work with me, we work on growing your
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confidence and your critical working skills.
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At the same time, what I teach in my program is to not get rid
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of the doubt and to not get rid of the imposter syndrome.
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I teach you how to be the person who can really lean into it and
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take the doubt with you. I wanted to share with you guys
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that I ran over probably 1000 calls as I calculated it in the
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seven years that I flew and every single call that I ran, I
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still experience doubt, especially the same calls.
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So I'm an ICU, ICU nurse at heart.
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I worked ICU for six years before I transitioned into
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flight and I'd never worked ER, I'd never seen pre hospital.
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I didn't know what it was like to like bring a trauma patient
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patient and I just had them all nice and bundly packaged and and
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ICU. And so scene calls was what my
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company predominantly ran and I was nervous on every single
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call. We'd circle the scene, my heart
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rate would go up, my hands would start to sweat, we'd land at the
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scene. I was really nervous.
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I'd open up the ambulance doors, not knowing what to expect.
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And I had a lot of doubt. But I knew I would always figure
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it out. And I knew that my partner and I
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would always come up with a plan to successfully get what the
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patient needed in the moment. And so I want to just offer you,
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if you're anything like me, where you feel like you're a
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high achiever and you set big goals for yourself, getting to
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flight is going to create a lot of doubt for you.
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And what I see a lot of people do is that they want to push the
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way this doubt instead of learning to just lean into it.
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And if you're a high achiever, then doubt and imposter syndrome
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is going to be something you're always gonna bring with you and
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you're always gonna push up against it.
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Because as we level up, that's when we feel imposter syndrome.
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And so I really teach you in my programs, in my courses, like
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how do we grow your confidence level with having doubt and
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leaning into imposter syndrome? Because our brains like to tell
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us we can have doubt or we can be confident.
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And I'm really going to teach you how to have doubt and be
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confident at the same time. So mindset and working on those
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constant obstacles that are loud in your in your head, whether
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they're I'm not good enough, I don't have enough time and
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experience, I'm not smart enough, I'm too old.
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Like these are common thoughts that I hear people saying, we
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are going to work on this in the courses and in the programs.
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Because my goal for all of you guys is I want you guys to start
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thinking as a flight nurse before you even sit in these
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seats of these offers. So that or in these interviews,
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so that when you sit in the seat for the interview, you already
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believe that you already know how to have doubt and show up
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confidently. And then they're going to want
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to give you an offer because of that.
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Again, it all comes down to belief work and mindset work and
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working on growing your confidence.
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So that's the number one thing that I put as #1 is working on
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the mindset piece and sifting through the thoughts #2 The, the
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second thing that you really want to work on to jump start
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your journey to flight is mapping out your plan.
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You want to do this as early on as nursing school.
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In nursing school, I knew that I wanted to be a flight nurse.
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And so I started taking actions and steps to it.
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And I've created a direct step by step plan.
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No matter where you're starting to map out your plan, what's
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important for this and mapping it out so that you can stay out
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of track and out of confusion. I see a lot of people start to
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go go this way and it takes them years to get to flight versus
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let's create a plan, let's create a protocol so that when
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your brain's like, hey, maybe I need to go to that level 1, or
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maybe I need to work ER and ICU, you're stay on track where
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you're like, wait, this is my plan.
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I just need to do ER or ICU and I don't need to work a level 1.
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I can work a rural bed ERICU and still be just as qualified.
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So mapping out is important because it helps you focus on
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one department. I highly recommend working in
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one department and growing your confidence and critical thinking
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skills. The reason why I recommend this
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is flight companies are not looking for time and experience.
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Flight companies are looking for leaders and people who have
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grown their leadership qualities and have grown their critical
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thinking skills and who go above and beyond their staff position.
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What happens again is like usually at the one or two year
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mark of working here, I see you. When you start to feel more
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comfortable, that's where I see people jump around.
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But at that one year mark, that's where you want to start
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taking on leadership roles. That's where you want to start
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precepting new hires or precepting student nurses, being
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a part of committees, helping roll out training devices like
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this is really where you want to step up as a leader because this
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is who flight companies are looking for.
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They're looking for leaders and so that really can only be
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established and honed in when you work one department.
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I do want to, I touch on this for a second and I want to go
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back to it. I get asked a lot too, is ER
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better or is ICU better? And I just want to offer for you
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guys to pick the unit that you are most excited about. 1 is not
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better than the other. That's why they don't say ER and
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ICU. They say a critical care unit.
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So that could look like a pediatric adult ER or a
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pediatric or an adult ER. That could look like a adult ICU
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or a trauma ICU or a burn ICU or a pediatric ICU.
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Any kind of specialty of either one of those, that is fine.
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It doesn't matter. Any critical care unit for three
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years, that's what they're looking for.
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And then also the leadership qualities.
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I also want to touch on, if you're in between, do I work
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ERICUI always offer for you to pick the department that you're
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the most excited about. Because if you're more excited
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about working in an ER, then that's where your confidence and
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your critical thinking skills are going to grow.
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You're not going to dread going to work.
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You're not going to be like, oh, this is just because this is
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what flight wants. No, you're going to be
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interested into it. And when you're interested in
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something, that's just where your confidence levels are going
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to. I also want to touch on that.
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It doesn't matter if it's a rural bed ERICU or a level 1
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trauma ICU. I see people chasing level ones
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as well. Flight companies are looking for
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rural bed ERICUS all the way to level 1.
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I sat in a lot of interviews where there was level 1
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candidate, but they ended up picking the rural bed ER ICU
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nurse because they were resourceful.
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They knew how to get what they wanted with very little
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resources. And so they're not looking for
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just level 1. So don't chase level 1 as well.
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I wanted to give you an example of someone who's currently in my
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flight prep Academy. I met her probably about a year
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and a half ago now. She's been working with me and
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she came to me and she was working float pool at that time.
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And she said I've always wanted to be a flight nurse.
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Like I known that this is really what I want to do.
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And she said I knew that in nursing school.
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I got into nursing school fully thinking that I was going to go
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into critical care and then I just ended up getting a job in
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the OR and life circumstances happened and things happened,
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but she's like, I've been working.
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I went from OR I've been, I did OR for four years and now I've
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been working float pool for the last two years.
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She's like, I really just want help getting on track.
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She goes, I'm studying for my CEN.
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I'm thinking about taking a job in an ER and then taking a per
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diem in an ICU. I'm taking this trauma course
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and I'm getting ready to take my paramedic license.
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She goes, what do I need to be doing?
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And I said, actually, we're going to cut all those things
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out. And she said, what?
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And I said, part of your plan is we're going to get you into an
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ER or an ICU. We're going to get you starting
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to do ride alongs and make connections with light companies
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and that is it. We're going to hold off studying
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for your CN and you don't need to get your paramedic license.
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And she said what she's like, I've been doing all of these
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things. I thought like I needed to
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hustle and work hard and overwhelm myself and do all
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these things to make myself look good as a candidate.
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And I said, no, this is just what we're going to focus on.
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So she got herself into an ER full time and she had been doing
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that only nine months. She had done, I think two or
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three ride alongs at that point because we had.
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I taught her how to do ride alongs.
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And after the third ride along, she got her first flight
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interview of just working ER for nine months.
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And that's how I know it's possible by just focusing on
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these things. So just nine months of working
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ER, she's now sat in two flight interviews.
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And I know that she's going to get hired, if not one of these
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positions very soon and only working ER nine months and
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cutting out all of the other fluff.
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And so I just want to offer you guys like with a mapped out
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plan, doing it in a simple, doable way, focusing on the
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things that really matter. That's how you get hired into
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flight. She got her time back.
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She got being able to be with her family.
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She had a small child at home and she didn't hustle and
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overwork to get there. And I just want to offer you
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guys too, that if you hustle and overwork to get there, that's
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how you will be when you arrive. And that's how flight nurses
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burn out. So more importantly, when people
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come to me, they're like, I really want to work with you to
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get into flight. I'm, I not only want to help you
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get to flight, but I want to help you be successful
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afterwards to transition into the role successfully,
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confidently and fly for the longevity of the rest of your
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career if you want to. And I know that flight nurses
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have a short half life. I saw it so many times.
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They would hustle over work to get there and then they'd only
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last a year or two because they'd get overwhelmed and
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they'd burn out. So I'm, what I'm noticing is
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that people who map out their plan earlier come and work with
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me on earlier in their career. Not only are they getting hired
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in the first one to two flight interviews, but they are also
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clearing orientation and successfully getting off of
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orientation sooner. And so that's what's really
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important to me. So that's why mapping out your
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plan is really important as well as not getting an overwhelm and
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overworking and hustling to get there as well.
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OK #3 the last and final thing that is really important and I
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touch on this and I teach this is doing ride alongs and making
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connections and networking with companies.
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The purpose of this is twofold. 1 you get to sit in that
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helicopter seat. You get to see what it feels
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like to do the job, the goal feel much closer to you.
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You get to see what it's like to to be the flight nurse, to be
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the flight paramedic, to work as a small team, to work in this
22:41
small space. It really gets to get you
22:46
excited about this goal and you really want to start doing ride
22:50
alongs as soon as you graduate nursing school.
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I really teach the people that I work with and the clients that I
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work with to do about 3:00 to 4:00 in a six month period.
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So that ends up to being about 6:00 to 8:00 and that that can
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be less or more. I have some people in my flight
23:08
prep Academy right now that are doing like 3 this month and it's
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really, I really teach you again, not to overwork in doing
23:15
that, but it gives you the opportunity to get to know them.
23:20
I treat ride alongs as dating. So what I see a lot of people do
23:24
who want to get into flight is they just think that they're
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going to work their three years, they're going to prep really
23:29
quickly for a flight interview and then they're going to get
23:31
hired. And the reality of it is, is
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they're so competitive that you can't rely on doing that.
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This is what stops a lot of people from even getting hired
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because what they do is they think that they can focus on an
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opening and then when an opening happens, expect an interview and
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then get hired after the interview.
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Well, for flight companies, because there's so many
23:53
applicants and so much competition, when they post an
23:56
opening, that position has already been spoken for.
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And that position has already been spoken for by people who
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have been doing ride alongs and making connections with them
24:04
their whole three years of working critical care.
24:07
So I recommend and I have some nursing students in my program
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who are already doing ride alongs too.
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So I I recommend doing ride alongs as soon as you graduate
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nursing school. Doing 4 to 8 in or three to four
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in a six month period ends up being 4 to 8 or 6 to 8 in a year
24:25
period because I like to treat this as dating for my my analogy
24:34
with this is when we go to marry someone, most of us aren't like,
24:38
hey, that's the person I want to marry and I'm going to marry
24:41
them. But that's how people treat
24:42
flight companies. They're like, I'm just going to
24:43
work my three years and I want to marry this company and I'm
24:46
going to get hired with them. And that's not realistic.
24:48
So doing ride alongs gives you an opportunity to speed date a
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lot of companies. You get to figure out what's
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important to you, is culture important to you is teamwork, is
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training, safety, education, management.
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When you get to sit in this helicopter seat and make
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connections with these companies, you get to find out
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what they value. And then the second part to this
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is companies get to know you. They get to find out what you
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value, who you are, what's important to you.
25:17
They get an opportunity to date you, and then these ongoing ride
25:21
alongs are continuous dates that you keep to have what you keep
25:25
having with them. They get to find out what kind
25:27
of team player you are and ultimately this is who they pick
25:30
from to be invited to the interview.
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So you don't want to rely on openings online.
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I teach all my clients to be the candidate who does so many ride
25:39
alongs that they get invited to interviews.
25:41
And this is how my clients are getting hired before the
25:44
three-year mark because they're getting invited to interviews.
25:47
What's great about this invitation is that they already
25:49
know you. They've got to know you on a
25:52
less serious basis. They've got to know who you are,
25:57
what you value, the team player you are in this environment.
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Relaxed is the better word, relaxed environment of doing
26:04
these ride alongs before you get in this environment that's not
26:08
so relaxed in the flight interview.
26:09
So they're already bought into you.
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And when they're already bought into you, they already want you
26:14
to be a part of their team. And so just doing the flight
26:18
interview is just the thing that they have to do to offer you the
26:21
position, but they're already bought into and they already
26:24
want you. And so that's how my clients are
26:27
really getting one, one interviews before there's an
26:31
opening and then two selected for an offer above everybody
26:34
else or above a lot of different candidates.
26:37
So that's why these write alongs and making connections is so
26:40
important. And I teach you exactly how to
26:42
do this and how to prepare for this.
26:45
And so, yeah, I, I wanted to tell you another story of
26:48
someone else who is in currently the flight prep Academy.
26:51
She did a ride along and I always help you get your resume
26:54
flight ready as well. And she took her resume to the
26:57
ride along that day. And they just really loved
27:00
getting to know her on this ride along day that they asked for
27:04
her resume and they put up on their crew fridge and on their
27:06
crew fridge, they wrote on it when there's the next opening,
27:09
we want her. And she got an interview the
27:12
very next time there was an opening.
27:14
And so this is really what I want for you guys is to be able
27:18
to one personally experience right along so that you can
27:24
really anchor in your desire of being in flight.
27:28
It's going to feel much closer to you no matter where you are
27:31
in the journey when you start joining them too.
27:33
And then it also anchors in how much they desire of wanting you
27:36
on the team. And so when I was trying to get
27:39
in the flight, I didn't even know right alongs with a
27:41
possibility. And this is really the core of
27:43
what I teach you in my courses and in my programs that really
27:47
help you get the job I want to offer you.
27:49
One last thing, you don't have to be confident before deciding
27:53
to go for this big goal. A lot of people come to me and
27:56
they're like, I'm not 100% confident about myself.
27:59
So I don't know if I want to go for it.
28:01
And where you are going will require you to bring doubt.
28:05
It will require you to be a beginner again.
28:08
It will require you to start over.
28:11
And if you are willing to do that, I'm going to teach you how
28:14
to have this doubt and still show up confidently, how to work
28:18
through the imposter syndrome. Not push it down, but bring it
28:21
with you. Because as soon as you get into
28:24
flight, those thoughts and will be magnified.
28:27
The areas where you feel weaker will be magnified.
28:29
And so it's really important as you're trying to get there to be
28:34
working on growing your confidence and you don't have to
28:36
be 100% confident before going for it.
28:39
In fact, it's going to be required that you have some
28:42
doubt. I also have this strong belief
28:45
and I want to offer you guys that it's really important to be
28:47
in a community with people who are going through the same thing
28:51
as you so that you don't feel alone.
28:53
When I was trying to get to flight, I didn't know anybody
28:55
else in the industry. And in fact, the people that I
28:57
thought would be really supportive of me of trying to
29:00
get there weren't. And so that I see stops a lot of
29:05
people from going for it because they want the support of other
29:08
people. And I want to offer you, if you
29:10
really want this, come be a part of a community that is going for
29:14
the same goal. They will support you.
29:16
They will keep you on track as long.
29:18
And also you'll get the mentorship of myself.
29:21
I know the common obstacles that you guys face.
29:23
I know it has you quit ahead of time and I know it has you guys
29:26
pulled back. And so I'm going to prevent you
29:29
from making the same obstacles that I see people make.
29:32
And I'm not going to let you quit.
29:34
People who have done this work and mapped out their plan
29:37
earlier, like the people that I've caught as early as nursing
29:39
school, they're getting hired in the flight in the first one to
29:42
two interviews. And it's not just because
29:44
they've grown their confidence level and their critical
29:46
thinking skills. It's because they know how to
29:48
stay on track. They haven't gotten lost in the
29:51
weeds and for years started working on other things that are
29:54
going to make them look better and focusing on time and
29:56
experience. They've really stayed on track.
29:58
And I've helped them do that with the mentorship and the
30:00
community. OK, so that's the end of the
30:04
training. These are the three things that
30:06
you think you need to be doing to get into flight.
30:08
Gaining more time and experience, working all the
30:11
departments, getting more certs and taking more trauma courses.
30:15
But these are the three things you actually need to be doing to
30:18
jump start your journey to flight.
30:19
Working on your mindset, rolling your belief in confidence
30:22
levels, being able to take that doubt and imposter syndrome with
30:26
you #2 mapping out your plan, growing your confidence,
30:31
critical thinking skills, and leadership skills.
30:33
Knowing exactly where your plan is, where you are now, and what
30:37
you need to be doing in subsequent years before getting
30:40
there to keep you on track and out of the weeds.
30:42
And then number three, one of the most important things is
30:45
doing ride alongs, networking, and making connections.
30:48
I teach you how to do that. So in this three, if you know
30:52
that flight nursing or flight paramedicine is what you want to
30:55
do and you want to jumpstart your journey to it now, join us
30:58
in the online Jumpstart Flight course.
31:00
In this course, the following is going to be included.
31:02
You're going to have three video, 3 videos in this course.
31:06
The first video is going to talk about the mindset required to
31:09
work towards this goal and be successful.
31:10
After you get to flight. It's going to talk to you about
31:13
how to work on some of these obstacles of doubt, imposter
31:16
syndrome, and learning to have doubt and imposter syndrome and
31:19
still be confident and show up successfully towards this goal.
31:23
I'm going to teach you how to grow your confidence and
31:25
critical thinking skills now, no matter where you are starting in
31:28
the game and why it is so important to work on it now
31:31
versus later. The second video I'm going to
31:34
take you through the step by step process of no matter where
31:36
you're starting, how to map out your plan and stay on track to
31:40
get to flight. This is really important because
31:42
you don't want to hustle and overwork to get there.
31:45
How you are now is how you will be once you get there.
31:48
Meaning if you hustle and you overwork now, then when you get
31:51
to flight you were going to burn out so quickly.
31:54
And while hustling and overworking might have worked
31:56
out for you in the past, it's not going to be sustainable once
31:59
you get to flight. You will have a very short half
32:01
life as a flight nurse and you will get overwhelmed.
32:03
So I really teach you the step by step process, what things to
32:07
focus on, what things to to cut out and how to slow down and
32:11
doing this and getting there without hustling and without
32:14
overworking. The third video I teach you
32:17
specifically how to start doing ride alongs and making
32:19
connections with flight companies, which is really
32:22
important for them to get to know you and you to get to know
32:25
them. And I show you how to do this in
32:27
a simple doable way. I recommend doing 3 ride alongs
32:30
in a six month period, but some of my clients currently are
32:33
doing 4 to 6 in a month period. I'm not saying that that's what
32:36
you need to be doing, but I really teach you why it's so
32:40
important in this course and so that you can start taking action
32:43
in it right away. Once you do your first right
32:45
along, you're going to be hooked and you're going to want to
32:48
continue doing them. These videos will be available
32:51
to for you to watch on demand at your own pace and you'll have
32:54
lifetime access to them. This three course video is, is
32:58
available only for $97.00. And, and again, you will be able
33:02
to continue to rewatch these at your own pace.
33:05
You will be able to secure right along right after watching them
33:07
in the same month that you watch them.
33:09
You're going to have clarity of exactly where to start and what
33:12
to work on now, and you're going to be able to learn how to slow
33:15
go down and not hustle and overwork to get there.
33:18
You can purchase this online with the link in the in the
33:21
podcast bio, or you can purchase it in the link in the bio on my
33:24
Instagram. Let's finally get you jump
33:26
started and working towards this flight goal.
33:28
It's closer to you than you think.
33:31
Anything in this episode sparked your interest into getting into
33:33
flight? Come join my flight flight
33:35
group. We are an entire community that
33:37
meets together on a weekly basis with an ongoing group chat.
33:40
And if you are already flying and you are currently a flight
33:42
nurse or flight medic, you can join my all flight clinician
33:45
group as well. You can click on the link to
33:47
join in the show notes or you can DM me on Instagram.
33:49
I hope to see all of you guys inside.