Pilot and Clinical Crew Safety

Everything Was Perfect...Until It Wasn't: Lessons Learned from Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance

Monday, October 24, 2022

15:30 – 16:30

Location: Room 119

CE: 1.0 credit - CAPCE; Nursing; MTSP-C; ACHE

Main Presenter(s)

Scott McClain, FP-C, B.S.

Team Coordinator
Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance
Suffolk, Virginia, United States

Co-Presenter(s)

Denise Baylous, MSN, RN, CCRN, CFRN, NRP

Program Manager
Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Joe Sherman, M.S., B.S. (he/him/his)

Pilot
Metro Aviation, Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance
Norfolk, Virginia, United States

On March 3, 2020, while on short final to a prepared LZ, Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance encountered a wire and nearly scarred its impeccable 40-year safety record. Join an all-encompassing review of the event, the lessons learned, cockpit and landing zone video, post-incident debriefings, and sharing the story on social media.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to share our flight crew's experiences with others to prevent future landing zone mishaps.
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify potential improvement in their own flight crews resource management practices.
Upon completion, participants will be able to conduct a thorough post-incident analyisis to gain full loop closure with all parties involved while continuing to benchmark thier own flight operations.