Education helps vets, active military, families into health care careers
Life in the military builds skills that few other careers can match: discipline, resilience, leadership under pressure and teamwork in high-stakes environments. But when service members or their families transition back to civilian life, one of the biggest challenges they face is this: what’s next?
Empowering military members and their families to find meaningful careers where their strengths are valued requires bridging the divide between military training and civilian credentials. That bridge is education.
Education as the pathway
For military medics, corpsmen or those who manage health operations, nursing feels like a natural extension. For others, social work or health care administration offers ways to continue serving their community.
Degree and certificate programs offered by veteran-founded, military-connected institutions like Herzing University can give veterans and active military credit for their military experience while building new knowledge in areas like anatomy, patient care or health systems.
Herzing-Clarksville supports veterans, active duty military and their family members with a smooth transition into a new career:
- No wait list enrollment means learners don’t lose time between deciding to pursue a degree and actually starting.
- Flexible online formats allow general coursework to continue during relocations or while balancing family commitments.
- Military medic-to-RN pathways give credit for field medical training, helping military service members to move into registered nursing roles faster than traditional routes.
- A veteran-founded institution, Herzing understands the challenges and unique opportunities that military lives encounter, and the types of flexibility they might need.
- Programs in social work prepare students for one of the largest career fields in the Department of Veterans Affairs, enabling them to directly support fellow veterans and their families.
New campus opening in your community
In Clarksville, Tennessee, just outside of Fort Campbell, Herzing has built a campus with programs designed with military and veteran education in mind. From Practical Nursing (PN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees, military members and their families can choose the path that aligns with their service experience and career goals.
For those near Fort Campbell and Clarksville, the new campus provides face-to-face guidance, advanced simulation labs, partnerships with local hospitals and in-person support. For service members and their families across the country, Herzing’s online and hybrid formats provide the flexibility to keep learning through relocations, deployments or family responsibilities.
Hands-on learning for real-world impact
For many service members, a military career is defined by hands-on service, and their transition to civilian life can be a search for a new mission with the same dedication. Health care offers this path, providing a tangible way to continue serving the community. This is particularly critical in places like Clarksville and across Tennessee, where the health care workforce shortage is a critical local issue.
Herzing’s programs provide hands-on learning that builds on the existing skills of service members or their families, from crisis response in a simulation lab to compassionate care in clinical hospital rotations. This approach not only teaches new skills but also validates their confidence, reminding them that the qualities that made them successful in uniform are just as invaluable in civilian life.
With the right educational support, service members and their families can transform their skills into health care careers that honor their past while securing their future. This impact is twofold: communities gain professionals ready to serve, and the military community gains a renewed mission.
At Herzing University, the next chapter doesn’t erase the uniform; it builds on it, empowering veterans, active duty members and their families to turn their service into a new mission of saving lives, supporting families and strengthening communities long after active duty ends.
For more information about Herzing University, visit herzing.edu.
Disclaimer:
Herzing’s Clarksville campus is a satellite location of the Nashville campus. Students enrolled in the Clarksville campus ASN and BSN programs will complete the theory component of their coursework either online or in person at the Nashville campus. The laboratory component of their coursework will be completed at the Clarksville campus, and clinical experiences will be held at clinical facilities in the Clarksville area.
Herzing’s Clarksville campus is a satellite location of the Nashville campus. Students enrolled in the Clarksville campus PN program will complete the theory and laboratory components of their program at the Clarksville campus. Clinical experiences will be held at clinical facilities in the Clarksville area.
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