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Make Nursing the Best Career for You

Nursing Can Take You Far

After completing your RN degree, earn a BSN, a master’s, even a doctorate in nursing. Graduate school is your path to becoming a nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist—some of the highest paid nursing careers.

You can be a nurse anywhere—in large hospitals and cities, even on cruise ships and helicopters. Since many areas use nurse practitioners as primary care providers, your nursing career can even bring you back home to small town Iowa. 

"Throughout the program, I was able to network while gaining real-world experiences during my clinical hours. I was hired immediately after graduation by Ottumwa Regional Health Center in the Women & Family Center, which is where I completed my preceptorship. The Indian Hills Nursing program changed my life."

Kristina Vongkaysone – Ottumwa, Iowa
Nursing, '17

Nursing includes hundreds of career tracks—at the bedside, in the clinic, in the O.R. and the E.R.—and there’s so much more. Nursing careers include:

Nursing

Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.)

Top 5 Reasons to Get Your Nursing Degree at Indian Hills:

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Become an RN & Start Your Nursing Career

A nursing associate degree is your fastest path to becoming an RN — finish your nursing degree in 21 months or less! Your A.A.S. prepares you to take the national licensing exam (NCLEX-RN) to become a registered nurse and an associate degree in nursing (ADN) is the key credential needed for starting your nursing career. And nursing has a great career outlook:

• Many job openings
• Strong demand expected to continue
• Good pay–nurses can earn well over $100k
• Lots of growth and advancement options
• Work that matters: helping people heal

• School nurse
• Forensic nurse
• Oncology nurse
• NICU nurse, working with premature babies
• Nurse epidemiologist
• Nurse anethetist
• Flight nurse, part of a first responder critical care team

1. High demand for nurses across Iowa
2. Free tuition if qualified
3. Two convenient campuses, close to home
4. Professional skills hiring managers love
5. Transfer to complete a BSN program — and beyond

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95% Pass Rate in 2022

Indian Hills offers an accredited nursing program that prepares you for the NCLEX-RN. Start as an RN and then see what kind of nursing career you want. You can make it happen—your first step is an associate degree in nursing from Indian Hills.

Beginning Fall 2024, the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) and Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs can be completed on both the Ottumwa and Centerville Campuses! The new 66,000 square foot Irma W. Winslow Education Center, allows you to complete the first and second years of the nursing program at the Centerville Campus. Both campuses have state-of-the-art simulation labs fully equipped with high and low-fidelity manikins. Complete your life-saving degree today at Indian Hills.

New Centerville Education Center