Flight Paramedic
UNC Carolina Air Care
James Phipps, FP-C, CCEMTP, NRP Jim Phipps is a veteran Flight Paramedic with UNC Carolina Air Care with over 30 years of experience in the air medical community. He has flown with the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the US Army as a transport clinician and trainer over the course of his long career. As an industry educator, Jim is a sought-after speaker at regional, national and international conferences for a wide range of topics including mechanical ventilation, air medical resource management, and flight crew development. Through his work with the ECHO organization, Jim helped to establish the Future Flight Crew Program, a training pipeline for clinicians who want to join the air medical community. During his 2005 deployment to Iraq as an Army flight medic, Jim co-authored and implemented the Flight Nurse Initial Training Standards Course, which would later be used to establish the current Army Flight Nurse Program. It was during this deployment where Jim developed the extensive experience with hemorrhage control he would need to draw on for the patient he is speaking about today.
