Space Nursing Society

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Space Nursing Society (also called "SNS") is a non-profit 501(c)3 non-governmental organization devoted to Space Nursing and the contribution to space exploration by Registered Nurses.

SNS is an international space advocacy organization dedicated to encouraging the settlement of space, and an affliated special interest group associated with the National Space Society.

Founded in 1991, the SNS has over 400 members from around the world including Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Scotland and the United States.

The SNS provides a forum for the discussion and exploration of issues related to nursing in space and its impact upon the understanding of earthbound nursing through conference participation and its newsletter "Expanding Horizons."

The information being learned in the microgravity environment of space has tremendous applications for the bed-bound patient on earth. Bedrest is considered analogous to some of the reactions the astronauts have experienced in space, which include inner ear fluid shifts, loss of plasma volume, muscle atrophy, demineralization and calcium/bone loss.

If one were to consider the issues of confined spaces, closed ecological systems with little personal space, and psychological-social interactions, there are many earth-bound counterparts that could benefit from what is being learned via space research (source: Expanding Horizons Vol. 2, Issue 1).

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[edit] SNS Officers

Executive Director: Linda Plush, RN, MSN, CNS/FNP, FRSH

Current President: Scott Rhodes, RN, MSN

Current Vice President: Lynx Carlton McClellan, RN, MSN, OHNP

Lunar pioneers will encounter hazards and crises requiring new emergency procedures. Here, an antenna installer fell over a 90-foot escarpment and fractured his right femur. Responding to this situation on a "medivac" hopper, two other lunar base crew members employ a portable CAT-scan device, a holographic display, and helmet-mounted heads-up displays to determine the severity of the injury. This image produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings, (SAIC).
Lunar pioneers will encounter hazards and crises requiring new emergency procedures. Here, an antenna installer fell over a 90-foot escarpment and fractured his right femur. Responding to this situation on a "medivac" hopper, two other lunar base crew members employ a portable CAT-scan device, a holographic display, and helmet-mounted heads-up displays to determine the severity of the injury. This image produced for NASA by Pat Rawlings, (SAIC).

[edit] Mission Statement

"The Space Nursing Society is devoted to transporting as many registered nurses as possible into space, until a sufficient amount of devotees to the nursing profession has been relocated to the moon, where we will establish our new colony: Lunursa!"

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