3 Nurses Use Ingenuity in Medical Emergency on Halifax Flight

3 nurses use ingenuity in medical emergency on Halifax flight

What was supposed to start a relaxing weekend celebrating a bride to be, started instead with nurses having to figure out how to give an IV drip to a patient while on a plane. Three nurses from Kentville’s Valley Regional Hospital; Abbie Loughran, Abigail Dauphinee and Karlee McGuigan were at the back of a plane […]

Valley nurses come to aid of airline passenger

ANNAPOLIS VALLEY: A relaxed bachelorette trip became high-altitude intensity for three Nova Scotia Health nurses from Kentville’s Valley Regional Hospital. A mid-morning May 14 commercial flight to Toronto from Halifax took a turn within the first 15 minutes in the air as a passenger lost consciousness and needed medical assistance. Registered nurses’ Abbie Loughran, Abigail (Abbey) Dauphinee and Karlee McGuigan were settled comfortably near the…