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 ...

Florida lawmakers are actively investing in nursing programs to resolve staffing shortages and create a sustainable, bright ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a recent influx of state money, Central Florida colleges with high-performing nursing programs hired more faculty, built new ...

The 2024 Live Healthy Act created a pipeline to expand nursing education programs across the state.

Grand Canyon University is expanding its footprint in Florida to help fill the critical shortage of nursing professionals.

Florida nursing school graduates ranked last in the nation for first-time pass rates on the national licensing exam in 2024, leaving the state vulnerable as its population ages. The state continues to ...

Growing yet aging: Florida now has nearly 500,000 nurses, but only 7.2% are under 30, raising concerns about sustaining the workforce. Investments in training: The state has invested over $485 million ...

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 ...

Florida’s Commission for Independent Education has ordered seven nursing schools allegedly tied to the fraudulent degree scandal to pause graduation and enrollment activities through March, the state ...

ORANGE COUNTY. BACK TO YOU. FLORIDA IS TRYING TO RECRUIT AND KEEP NURSES BECAUSE OF A GROWING SHORTAGE. BUT A NEW STUDY SHOWS THE STATE IS LEADING THE COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO NURSING STUDENTS FAILING ...

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 ...