Advice | Professional Program in Nursing, UW-Green Bay

Students who are not yet RNs (for instance those who are currently pursuing their Associate Degrees in Nursing) are able to take courses to fulfill the general education and support courses Advising session

for the BSN degree at UW-Green Bay. Pre-RN students are not allowed to enroll in upper-level nursing courses but can complete other requirements towards the BSN Degree. This option is useful for students in ADN programs who have finished their non-nursing requirements but are waitlisted for beginning their nursing courses.

Interested students need to apply to UW-Green Bay as degree seeking students and will be placed into a major called pre-nursing. Students pursuing this option should stay in close contact with the professional nursing advisor to be sure that courses taken at UW-Green Bay will count toward the needed general education and support course requirements. The following are requirements that pre-RN students can fulfill:


General Education	Credits
Fine Arts	3
Humanities	9
Social Sciences	*
Natural Sciences	*
Other Culture	3
Ethnic Studies	3


Nursing Support	Credits
Speech	*
Written Communication	3
Therapeutic Nursing Intervention Electives	6
Statistics	3
Critical Thinking Elective	**
Chemistry	3
*Will be satisfied by articulation agreements/transfer credits after the ADN is completed.
**Critical thinking elective can be satisfied by certain humanities courses such as philosophy, or taken as a separate course.

Advice to Pre-RN Students