The UWM College of Nursing's Continuing Education and Outreach Program, officially
established in 1983, is committed to providing high quality, accessible educational
programming to a wide range of practitioners of nursing, allied health professionals, and
consumers of health care in southeastern Wisconsin. These programs consist of short-term
noncredit workshops and conferences in the Milwaukee community, with the option of
contracting for courses outside the Milwaukee community. Programs topics have included basic
physical assessment, gerontology, occupational health, community health, mental health,
pharmacology, clinical update for advanced practice nurses, and maternal child health.