Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame

Declaration of Enshrinement

October 14, 2011

Jane A. Miller

In December 1980, Jane A. Miller became the Chief Flight Nurse for the Washoe Medical Center based “Life Flight” program serving the remote areas of northern Nevada and northeastern California. The program, renamed “Care Flight” and ran as a joint venture operated between all three local hospitals and by 1986, the service had grown to 1200 patients annually.

Miller served as the Chair of the Association of Air Medical Services’ National Clinical Standards & Practices Committee, publishing two professional articles, and serving as co-editor of the trauma section of the first flight nurse textbook, Flight Nursing: Principles and Practice. Protocols and procedures that she developed are used throughout the United States today. Through the efforts of Miller, the medical community recognized flight nursing as a nursing specialty, gaining support from the Nevada State Board of Nursing for flight nurses initiating and providing care for critically ill patients during delivery to hospitals. She led in the establishing an Emergency Medical Service Registered Nurse regulation in the Nevada Nurse Practice Act.

For her pioneering contributions to the development of flight nurse standards and practices, Jane A. Miller earned her place in the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.

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TD BARNES, Executive Director

Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame