Christopher Manacci, MSN, APRN-BC
Lecturer and NFNA Clinical Director
Chris has made huge contributions to air medical services and emergency medical services in general in several significant ways. Chris lectures frequently for pre-hospital public safety forces, nurses, and flight nurses both in Northeast Ohio and across the country. Additionally, he has served as a mentor to beginning flight nurses, first at Metro Life Flight and now at Cleveland Clinic Critical Care Transport.
He has also written several book chapters and published several abstracts applicable to the field. Chris was instrumental in developing our current acute care nurse practitioner/flight nursing program where he teaches two flight nursing seminars and coordinates the advanced flight nursing internship.
Chris is an active participant in several research programs aimed at developing an evidence base for flight nursing practice. Current projects include identifying environmental cues used by flight nurses so that future simulations can be developed for beginning flight/transport nurses and an umbrella project that is characterizing sounds in the air medical environment as well as properties of noise-reducing stethescopes with the hope to develop technologies to assist in auscultation in uncontrolled environments. Additionally, he has worked hard to help secure funding to develop a flight simulator for providing care in the passenger cabin of rotor-wing aircraft.
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