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 ...

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 ...

The program will house the nation’s first master’s nursing program focused on AI in healthcare and will include the college’s Institute on Digital Health and Innovation. It is designed to prepare ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...