Training Nurses for Senior Care

As our population continues to age there are frightening stories out there about shortages in doctors and nurses to care for all the people who are entering their older adult years.

Franklin United Methodist Community is proud to have the opportunity to work with four different universities and one vocational school to provide their clinical training sites in our health care facility. Students from around the country (and sometimes from around the world) who are in nursing programs in Central Indiana do a rotation here to learn more about geriatric nursing and dealing with the whole person.

Students from Ivy Tech College sent us a note following their Summer 2011 experience that reads "Thank you, bunches and bunches! . . . for the learning opportunity and letting us into your home!" Signed, the Ivy Tech Gang

How wonderful to have students who appreciate their experience. We believe, all of us will be better served (and cared for) thanks to these training experiences.