Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Pinellas Park on Tuesday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced additional funding Tuesday for a nursing pipeline program that provides scholarships. The ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The florida hospital association says there’s a shortage of at least 16-thousand nurses in florida.this ...

Governor DeSantis also awarded over $20 million in Linking Industry to Nursing Education funding; $645,000 was awarded to Santa Fe College.

State funding supports nursing programs at colleges and universities across Florida, including institutions serving ...

Within five years, the number of Florida nursing programs more than doubled. But many were for-profit institutions that churned out students whose pricey degrees left them ill-prepared to enter the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...