Today, Shirley, Emma, Devin, and Francis spent the entire day shadowing home nurses. This is an important program for patients who need care but aren’t able to make it to the clinic. For some of us, the homes we visited were very close; Shirley visited some patients of the senior housing center pictured above, which was a stone’s throw away from the White Earth Indian Health Service. For others, a large portion of the day was spent traveling. It wasn’t a high-yield day for pictures, as we spent most of the day in individual homes, but we all had a great experience chatting with patients and seeing the work that home nurses do.
DMS Indian Health Service Trip 2012 