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SECTION B – CAREER PROGRESSION AND INFORMATION
1.
Specialty Description.
1.1.
Specialty Summary. Plans, provides, and evaluates routine patient care and treatment of beneficiaries
to include flying and special operational duty personnel. Organizes, coordinates, executes, and evaluates
nursing activities in the medical environment as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)/Licensed Vocational Nurse
(LVN). Performs and directs support activities for patient care situations, including contingency operations
and disasters. Performs duty as Flight and Operational Medical Technician (FOMT), Independent Duty
Medical Technician (IDMT), Aeromedical Evacuation Technician (AET), Allergy and Immunization
Technician (AIT), Special Operations Command (SOC) Medic, Critical Care Technician (CCT), National
Registry Paramedic (NRP), Neurodiagnostic Technologist (NDT), Dialysis Medical Technician (DMT), or
Hyperbaric Medical Technician (HBMT). Related DoD Occupational Subgroup: 130000
1.2.
Duties and Responsibilities.
1.2.1.
Provides, supervises and manages patient care of beneficiaries to include flying and special
operational duty personnel. Performs nursing tasks. Acts as Air Force Medical Home (AFMH) member or
team leader. Front-line preventionist who identifies potential health risks and provides preventative
counseling. Performs paraprofessional portions of preventative health assessments and physical examinations.
Monitors and records physiological measurements. Orients patients to the hospital environment. Admits,
discharges, and transfers patients as directed. Observes, reports, and records observations in patient progress
notes and team conferences. Performs portions of medical treatment, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
Cares for, observes, and reports on pre/post-operative, seriously or critically ill, and injured patients. Records
treatments and procedures rendered and observes effects. Performs postmortem care. Identifies patient
problems and assists in developing and evaluating patient care plans. Assembles, operates, and maintains
therapeutic equipment. Provides field medical care in contingency operations and disasters. Performs basic
life support, tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) and triage in emergency situations. Serves as member of
primary emergency medical response to in-flight emergencies and potential mass casualty scenarios for on-
and off-base incidents. Operates emergency medical and other vehicles. Loads and unloads litter patients.
Participates in contingency or disaster field training, exercises, and deployments. Augments search and rescue
flying squadrons. Obtains and maintains linen and supplies/areas. Disposes of medical waste. Maintains
inpatient and outpatient medical records. Screens medical records for deployability and other medical
administrative requirements. Prepares and submits administrative reports. Manages supplies and equipment,
submits and executes budgets. Coordinates medical service activities with execution and clinical management
teams. Utilizes the nursing process for promoting and maintaining patient health. 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.
1.2.2.
Supervises personnel, conducts training, and creates duty schedules. Schedules and/or conducts in-
service training on procedures, techniques, and equipment. Schedules and/or conducts periodic disaster
training and evacuation procedures. Provides training to medical and non-medical personnel; training may
include areas such as emergency medical technician (EMT), TCCC, and required basic life support training.
1.2.3.
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. Assists with oversight of waiver management
utilizing the Aircrew Information Management Waiver Tracking System (AIMWTS). Maintains grounding
management on all aircrew assigned utilizing the Aeromedical Services Information Management Systems
(ASIMS). Performs the paraprofessional portion of initial flying class/special operational duty (SOD)
physicals. Conducts clinical entries for data into the Physical Examination Processing Program (PEPP) and