Romelia Farinas moved to Miami from the Dominican Republic 10 years ago hoping to expand the healthcare career that she’d been preparing for since childhood. After working for several years as a ...

He graduated from a nursing program in South Florida and passed a national exam but Jasiel Vilarino’s hope of working as a nurse has turned into a frustrating yearlong ordeal. Like dozens of other ...

Nurses are not assistants. They are not “nonprofessional.” They are licensed, highly educated clinicians who keep every ...

The Florida A&M University School of Nursing’s low trajectory of first-time pass rates has made a turnaround after the program's 2023 spring cohort was given a 96.55% passage rate. The improvement — ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three people linked to an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses by the defunct Palm School of Nursing were found guilty in the Southern District of ...

Florida nursing students are passing the national licensure exam at higher rates than in the past decade, but the rates remain the worst in the country, according to a report published Monday. The ...