REGISTERED NURSE ADULT
As a Registered Nurse ( Adult ), you will help to look after the health and fitness of everyone in the RAF , whether they are aircrew , ground crew or other support staff . Princess Mary ’ s Royal Air Force Nursing Service ( PMRAFNS ) nurses also provide care for other military personnel and entitled civilians .
Most of your postings will be in secondary healthcare , with the opportunity to specialise in primary healthcare . You will be based at one of the Joint Hospital Groups ( JHG ) at Plymouth , Portsmouth , North Allerton , or at the Royal Centre of Defence Medicine in Birmingham . You could also be posted to the tri-Service Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Stanford Hall in Loughborough .
From time to time , you will also be sent on detachment to an operational zone , where you will help to evacuate casualties by air to hospitals in the UK and take part in field hospital nursing .
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