With a recent influx of state money, Central Florida colleges with high-performing nursing programs hired more faculty, built new facilities and expanded their programs to accept additional qualified ...

The Florida Hospital Association projects a shortage of nearly 60,000 nurses in the next decade. State lawmakers want to ...

For-profit nursing schools often market their programs to people working in low-level jobs, people looking to improve their life circumstances. Many promise a flexible, expedited education and a ...

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 ...

United States Attorney Markenzy Lapointe speaks to the media about a network of nursing school operators, centered in South Florida, who allowed students to buy diplomas without the proper training as ...

ORANGE COUNTY. BACK TO YOU. FLORIDA IS TRYING TO RECRUIT AND KEEP NURSES BECAUSE OF A GROWING SHORTAGE. BUT A NEW STUDY SHOWS THE STATE IS LEADING THE COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO NURSING STUDENTS FAILING ...

He graduated from a nursing program in South Florida and passed a national exam but Jasiel Vilarino’s hope of working as a nurse has turned into a frustrating yearlong ordeal. Like dozens of other ...

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 ...

Florida Southern College will add a program next year offering a master’s of science in Nursing in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Post-Master's Certificate in Psychiatric Mental ...

Nursing programs in Florida would have to achieve accreditation within five years of accepting students under a bill sponsored by Republican State Senator Denise Grimsley. Plummeting test scores and ...

Newsweek and global data intelligence firm Statista ranked 1,200 nursing homes across the United States. Separate rankings were published based on size: 50-99 beds, 100-149 beds and more than 150 beds ...

In nursing homes across Florida, elderly residents have much to lose from the spending cuts proposed in Washington, D.C. Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing-home care in Florida — and the only ...