LINDA PLUSH NAMED TO CLINICAL-CARE NASA TEAM.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Nurse practitioner nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. Linda Plush has been named to the National Aeronautical aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Space Administration therapeutics and clinical care integrated products team. The purpose of the team is to support NASA's clinical scientists and flight surgeons seeking advice on operational issues related to clinical management, drug treatment, choice of medications, pharmacotherapeutic research goals, and emerging technologies and procedures. Plush's aerospace involvement has included serving on the editorial boards for Life Support and Biosphere biosphere, irregularly shaped envelope of the earth's air, water, and land encompassing the heights and depths at which living things exist. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system (see ecology), sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and of Science and Human Performance in Extreme Environments scientific journals. She is a life member of the Aerospace Medical Association and founding president of the Palmdale-based Space Nursing Society. Plush is also the owner of two Palmdale-based companies: Plush Systems Inc., a health education and consulting business; and West Palm Inc., a mobile dialysis dialysis (dīăl`ĭsĭs), in chemistry, transfer of solute (dissolved solids) across a semipermeable membrane. Strictly speaking, dialysis refers only to the transfer of the solute; transfer of the solvent is called osmosis. service. She also works part time as a nurse practitioner for Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Family Medical Group in Lancaster. |
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