PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Royal, P M AU - Smith, M B TI - A UK Military nurse practitioner on Exercise SAIF SAREEA 3: the first Overseas deployment AID - 10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001477 DP - 2020 Dec 01 TA - BMJ Military Health PG - 425--428 VI - 166 IP - 6 4099 - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/166/6/425.short 4100 - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/166/6/425.full SO - BMJ Mil Health2020 Dec 01; 166 AB - As the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps celebrates its 70th Anniversary, army nursing continues to advance patient care delivery to new levels. Advanced level nursing practice has moved from the relatively ‘calm’ confines of the NHS to the austere desert of Oman. This article will provide a personal account of the first deployment of a military nurse practitioner since it was formally introduced in 2012 to frontline medicine, leading an armoured prehospital treatment team.