Alarmed by a growing shortage of nurses, Florida lawmakers in 2009 eased regulations on the schools tasked with training them, inviting new institutions to enter the market. The results were swift: ...

Nine nursing programs in the state university system had National Council Licensure Examination pass rates above the national average. Florida Gulf Coast University had a 100% pass rate, while 98% of ...

Tallahassee State College's Associate Degree in Nursing program is on probation due to low licensure exam scores. The program's NCLEX pass rate fell more than 10 percentage points below the national ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s nursing education system is now among the lowest-performing in the nation, as measured by exam passage rates. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...