Ex-crew to nursing, anyone done it? How transferable is the experience?
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#1 Thinking seriously about nursing after flying. It's apparently one of the most common serious retraining paths. Anyone here done it or know someone who did?
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#2 Two ex-LATAM colleagues did nursing in São Paulo. Their view: crew already handle emergencies, difficult people and shift work, so the culture shock was small; the academic side was the effort. Both said the first-aid and CPR training gave them a head start and both studied while still flying part-time in the last year. Nursing programmes in several countries are notably full of ex-crew.
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#3 In France it's a well-trodden path too, the shift-work tolerance is exactly what hospitals need.