What you'll learn in Pre-Nursing studies at UW-Platteville
Preparing you for one of the most demanding and rewarding careers available, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Department of Biology Pre-Nursing program is a popular degree program. Nurses meet the physical and emotional needs of patients in a broad range of settings while providing care prescribed by a physician. With an increased emphasis on preventative care and growing rates of chronic conditions, there is a greater demand for nursing services, creating ample opportunity for you to excel in the specialty and career you want.
UW-Platteville also enjoys partnerships with other , such as UW Oshkosh, that allow for a simplified transfer process for pre-nursing classes, should you choose to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Whether you choose to complete your pre-nursing courses online or on campus, you can build on your experience through student clubs and organizations, or undergraduate research. Plus, we offer a wide variety of campus support programs like STEM Living Learning Communities, mentoring, and others, that allow you to create a student experience unique to you and your goals.
Careers in nursing
Earning a pre-nursing degree is often a first step toward becoming a registered nurse, where you’ll help assess patients’ needs, administer care based on those needs, and maintain records. Studying pre-nursing can also open the door to a range of other exciting career possibilities in the healthcare field.
Common pre-nursing career opportunities include:
- Caregiver
- Emergency medical technician
- Home health aide
- Hospital transporter
- Laboratory assistant
- Medical assistant
- Medical technician
- Medical transcriptionist
- Monitor technician
- Nursing aide
- Nursing assistant
- Orderly
- Phlebotomist
- Research assistant
Potential career opportunities with a nursing degree include:
- Acute care nurse
- Armed services nurse
- Burn unit nurse
- Camp/program nurse
- Certified nursing assistant
- Community nurse
- Critical care nurse
- Family nurse practitioner
- Forensic nurse
- Geriatric nurse
- Home health nurse
- Hospice nurse
- Labor and delivery nurse
- Nurse anesthetist
- Nurse case manager
- Nurse midwife
- Occupational health nurse
- Oncology nurse
- Operating room nurse
- Outpatient care nurse
- Paramedic
- Pediatric nurse
- Prison nurse
- Psychiatric mental health nurse
- Toxicology nurse
- Traveling nurse
- Wound care nurse
As you can see, whether you choose to pursue a career after studying pre-nursing or go on to earn a nursing degree, there are many options to put what you learn in college into practice, helping improve the lives of the people around you.
Students pursuing a pre-nursing major at UW-Platteville learn both inside and outside the classroom. Take advantage of numerous experiential learning opportunities including research, internships, university events, and more — all designed to help you better understand and apply what you learn in your pre-nursing courses.
