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

The Florida Department of Education's Linking Industry to Nursing Education (LINE) program has given Nova Southeastern ...

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 ...

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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Nursing will receive $3 million to help address the state’s nursing shortage. These funds — $1.5 million from Florida’s Linking Industry to ...

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 ...

The Florida House gave near unanimous approval on Thursday to a proposal that would tighten the state Board of Nursing’s oversight of nursing schools, a change that supporters say is needed because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...