For the third straight year, efforts to crack down on low-performing programs have stalled, even as concerns about student ...

The Florida Department of Education's Linking Industry to Nursing Education (LINE) program has given Nova Southeastern University's (NSU's) Ron and Assaf College of Nursing a $650,000 award to help ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced $20 million in additional funding to nursing programs across Florida colleges and universities. During a press conference Tuesday morning at St. Pete ...

After gaining near-unanimous approval in the Florida House, legislation aimed at strengthening state oversight of nursing schools died in the Senate this month, the third year in a row such efforts ...

Clarification appended: This story has been updated to reflect that Florida saw a decline in out-of-state students taking the nursing exam in 2024, though not necessarily a decline in out-of-state ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Florida Hospital Association says there’s a shortage of at least 16,000 nurses in Florida. This week, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a new effort to fix the problem. The state ...

Amid Florida’s nursing shortage, a Catholic university in the Archdiocese of Miami is expanding its nursing department following top test scores by its students. St. Thomas University announced on Feb ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them, inviting new institutions to ...

Florida’s push to expand its healthcare workforce hit a financial milestone this week, with state officials confirming that total investments in nursing education have now surpassed $485 million since ...

The data clearly shows USF Sarasota-Manatee is in far better financial and academic shape than New College of Florida.

The for-profit Brilliant Academy Health Center, on Conway Road in Orlando, Florida, won state approval and opened in 2018. It charges aspiring nurses $27,000 annually. The state has placed it on ...