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Critical care nursing officers work in three main clinical areas, mostly in the field hospital establishment. 1) Critical care ward.  This is where the sickest patients in the field hospital are. Everything from children to geriatric with the main population being previously health adult...

In keeping with the theme... A colleague of mine has a daughter who is about to start Comm Research and we were talking about the wait for security clearances and the evils of being a PAT.  Someone else in the office mentioned a series of four tutorial books on electronic warfare by Adamy...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy has started doing this with some vigor using their new'ish Type 920 hospital ship the "Peace Ark".  It is being used for Global Medical Engagement & Diplomacy missions to further the foreign policy and influence of the Chinese government (whilst at the...

There are the Individual Battle Task Standard (IBTS) that are on DWAN - DLN.  Not exciting after doing them 10 times, but might be interesting for a new Avr who is seeing the material for the first time.  The ones online are: (read in Name / Individual Standards Level / Length of time...

I am told by the medical regulation folks that it gets even more complex when the medical device was licensed by Health Canada for hospital use or ground EMS use and now you want to use it on a helicopter or fixed wing aircraft.  It becomes expensive to get these things through the Health Canada...

I think obvious is not always obvious, especially in pre-hospital medicine.  For instance when we look at advanced Paramedics (EMT-P or ACP) there are some issues that have been discovered.  Intubation (the process of securing an airway by placing a tube into the trachea via the mouth), starting...

This is a subject of great discussion right now at the higher levels of the CAF, within the hallways of the CF H Svcs Gp HQ, RCAF, CA, CJOC and CFD.  Lets cover some basics: CASEVAC - Casualty evacuation - the non-medicalised evacuation of patients without qualified medical escort. Must be...

One other question... now that you have me thinking about it... The few (1/2/3) sections of mod tent you see hanging off the back of the LSVW CP when set up... is that carried inside the CP when on the move or on top? Or is it in another vehicle?  I have never seen the A-Frames and purloins...

Thanks guys... jogged my memory.  MC

I am having a brain fart and looking for a sig to sort me out... Does a LSVW CP: 1) always tow a generator trailer 2) the generator carried in the CP and then dismounted Finally, can the LSVW CP run off vehicle power when running? Thx MC

There is one case in the RCMS that I am aware of... a MED-SPEC (Psychiatrist) was extended to 61 or 62. MC

For those that are flowing the Army "light operations" concept / project this is a clear indicator and warning. The Light Operations folk keep talking about stuff... crazy stuff... one of those things is dismounted TOW coming back, who which the bulk of people have been calling BS. Right...

You have a good background.  If you want to continue being an administrator in a health care system and want to join the Canadian Forces then Health Care Administration (HCA) Officer would be a good choice in the Regular Force. I would not recommend joining as a Nursing Officer, unless you want...

Taskings would include such things as exercises (domestic / international), teaching as course staff (Borden, Montreal, Vancouver), civilian lecturing, qualification standard / training plan / courseware writing boards, selection boards, Cadet Camp medical coverage, Technical Assistance Visits...

I think the schedule varies person-to-person and is somewhat MOSID dependent. I have heard a number of the General Duty Nursing Officers / Critical Care Nursing Officers who work in the High Readiness Detachments (HRD) note that they spend 200 days a year away from home on tasking / deployment /...

I will second Blackadder's comment, coming from the Health Service Group. You will be in the majority as a female in either of these MOSIDs.  In the larger Royal Canadian Medical Service picture you will be a sizable minority at 25-30%.  In the Royal Canadian Dental Service you will be in the...

Nope those are all the 1 Canadian Field Hospital // High Readiness Detachments. There are other high readiness opportunities, but not for a Lt Nursing Officer. It is hard to persuade anyone of anything when you care coming out of ROTP on obligatory service. Best you can do is state your...

One or two BHCA Course per year depending on output requirements of the CF H Svcs Gp / when people are available to take the course in the pipeline. BMOQ needs to be done before HSOSOC or BHCA. Officers are seldom sent PAT to Borden, but rather posted to the Basic Training List of the Base...

HSOSOC is run 3-5 times a year. This year I think we had 5 serials.  The system is designed to do HSOSOC and then BHCA, however this year we have a whole cohort of HCAs who are doing BHCA before HSOSOC. MC.

I am not sharing my leading change PER points with you, even if I happen to adopt your idea in my briefing note.  MC