AARP Indiana: 900,000 Members Strong

Nurse Pat McQuade meets with Ella Spaulding, 93, at the Sanctuary at St. Paul's retirement community in South Bend. Indiana has 2,000 nursing vacancies. Photo by Katrina Wittkamp

Not Enough Nursing Instructors
The math doesn’t add up. At a time when registered nurses are in more demand than ever, nursing schools in Indiana can’t accept all the student applicants because of a shortage of instructors, classrooms and clinical training sites. More >>

Not Enough Instructors to Train Nurses
If you wind up in the hospital today, you’ll see plenty of nurses. Looks are deceiving in this instance. “Because of the recession, some people are becoming complacent that there is not a nursing shortage,” said Brenda L. Cleary, a registered nurse and director of the Center to Champion Nursing in America, a collaboration of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  More >>

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• Guide to Transportation Assistance
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• The State of Indiana
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• Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network
• Indy Creative Aging
• Indiana Retired Teachers Association