Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a recent influx of state money, Central Florida colleges with high-performing nursing programs hired more faculty, built new ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at a college in Florida on Tuesday morning, where he discussed future funding for successful nursing education initiatives in the ...

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 ...

As Florida rebounds from its shortage of nurses, the Gainesville-based University of Florida’s College of Nursing enrolled a record number of nursing students for fall 2023 — and a few other nursing ...

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 ...

Florida nursing school graduates ranked last in the nation for first-time pass rates on the national licensing exam in 2024, leaving the state vulnerable as its population ages. The state continues to ...

Amid a statewide nursing shortage, many students at private for-profit programs are failing their national licensing exams. Former Times staff The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of ...

In July 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a list of graduate programs it considered “professional degrees.” Some nurses were outraged to see nursing programs weren’t on the list. The ...