title: Taking nursing to new heights.
abstract: Unemployed, newly wed and newly graduated, Patricia O'Connor was desperate for a job and, to everyone's astonishment, became an ambulance attendant. Twenty-two years later she's still in the field--a true pioneer. She's gone from being the only RN on Ontario's first team of flight paramedics, to starting an air medivac service in the Northwest Territories, to owning Medflight and providing trained flight nurses and paramedics for the N.W.T.
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authors.lastname: Sibbald
mesh_terms: D017732:Air Ambulances / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*