The legislation aimed to protect students from nursing schools that charge tens of thousands in tuition and fees but put out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Florida has long been known as the land of schemes and scams — a place where swindlers eager to separate citizens from their hard-earned money could peddle everything from worthless swampland 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 ...

Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a request to apply for a $375,000 grant to fund its nursing program. Florida A&M University’s Board of Trustees has unanimously ...

Tallahassee-based Florida State University received a $10 million gift to expand its nurse education program. The gift comes from the Fairholme Foundation and is the largest-ever to the College of ...