Fulfilling career possibilities
Our programs can prepare you for a variety of health care fields that will allow you to change the lives of others by:
- detecting cancer early enough for a patient to seek treatment,
- helping a stroke patient learn to speak again,
- counseling a diabetic patient on how to adjust his daily diet,
- providing oxygen to patient who has just been in a serious accident and
- arranging a rehabilitation program to help an athlete to recover from an injury.
Visit our program Web pages to learn more about the career path that’s right for you.
Specialized facilities
Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. Allied health students gain practical experience in the department’s specialized laboratories and at clinical sites.Learn more about our specialized facilities.
Welcome
Are you interested in helping others? Do you have compassion? Do you enjoy working with your hands? If so, you could be our next allied health care provider.
Allied health refers to occupations that support, aid and increase the efficiency of physicians, dentists or primary clinical specialists.
The Department of Allied Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary group of educational programs offering opportunities from entry-level undergraduate education to advanced educational and clinical practice options for health care professionals. The department uses innovative on-campus and online components to achieve its mission of preparing professionals for today’s health care market.
We invite you to become a member of our allied health family at Nicholls where you will learn, live and become a leader in Health Care! Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Gerard White
Department Head