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Flight Nurse – Permal

Meet Flight Nurse William

Get to know Permal

I am the Senior Flight Nurse or you could say the Lead Flight Nurse recently employed by Life Flight coming with 29 years of nursing experience.
Majority of my nursing career (15 years) was working as an Intensive Care Unit nurse and this included flight nursing also. For the past 7 years, I have been working as a full time flight nurse with a different employer and joined Life Flight early this year to become one of their first ever full time employed flight nurse based out of Hamilton.

Unlike working in the hospital, this job is varying in nature – you are never flying the same mission. Every day maybe be different with different locations and different patients with different needs.

Outside of work, I like spending time in the gym and I love fishing and playing soccer (football for some).

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