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 ...

FORT MYERS, Fla., April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rasmussen University is excited to announce the launch of a new weekend Practical Nursing (LPN) Diploma program at its Fort Myers campus, expanding ...

Amid a statewide nursing shortage, many students at private for-profit programs are failing their national licensing exams. Former Times staff The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of ...

With Florida A&M University’s licensure exam pass rates remaining lower than benchmarks and goals, Florida Board of Governors Vice Chair Alan Levine says he is ready to get rid of the programs if ...

Amid Florida’s nursing shortage, a Catholic university in the Archdiocese of Miami is expanding its nursing department following top test scores by its students. St. Thomas University announced on Feb ...

Riggs College of Allied Health in Longwood is one of more than 70 nursing programs across the state where passage rates for first-time test-takers of the NCLEX for registered nurses is 10 percentage ...

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 ...