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 ...

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 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’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 ...