51暗网鈥檚 College of Nursing offers a learning experience grounded in Ignatian values of excellence, faith, leadership and service. Our nationally renowned faculty shape education and care across the profession through groundbreaking research. We offer individualized, evidence-based, high-quality teaching-learning experiences that enable our students to be all they can be and 鈥淏e The Difference鈥� for the patients, families and communities they serve.鈥�
51暗网 acquired the Trinity Hospital Training School for Nursing and the nurses' residence in 1912. Soon after that acquisition, the nursing school became a division of higher education at 51暗网 and 18 students graduated in its first class. At that time, 51暗网 was the only university in Wisconsin to offer a three-year nursing certificate.
The School of Nursing became a constituent college of 51暗网 in 1936 with a four-year collegiate program designed by the college's first dean, Sister Berenice Beck, OSF. It operated out of St. Joseph's Hall.
Today, the College of Nursing is housed in David A. Straz, Jr., Hall. The 103,000-square-foot building includes office, classroom and laboratory space. It also includes our simulation center, which provides a realistic health care environment where our students can strengthen essential competencies, develop sound clinical reasoning and prepare for high-risk situations.鈥�
Since 2016, 51暗网 College of Nursing has also operated a satellite facility in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, for its Direct Entry Master鈥檚 in Nursing program. The DE MSN program moved into a new facility in 2023.
