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 ...

Lawmakers hope the proposal will lead to more nursing school graduates passing the national exam needed to work in a field ...

Florida deregulated nursing education in 2009. Substandard for-profit schools and cratering licensing exam results followed.

Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them ...

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 ...

Pass rates on the national licensing exam are the lowest in the nation, with dire implications for health care. A nursing student holds a stethoscope up to a mannequin during a training simulation at ...

Florida A&M University is a public institution where all of the graduate-level, online nursing classes are recorded and archived so that students can access lecture material at their convenience. The ...

University of South Florida is a public school. The College of Nursing has an application fee of $30 for U.S. residents. Tuition for the DNP program at University of South Florida is Full-time: $348 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Recruiting and retaining nurses throughout the state has become more difficult. Action News Jax Investigates found part of the problem is Florida’s pass rates for the state exam ...