South Florida Copes with Nursing Shortage. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (10/14/2002)
...Jennifer Peltz, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight...News Oct. 14--As Florida wonders where to find...next four years, South Florida nursing schools are expanding enrollment...summer camp for high-school students. Still, ...

Untapped Source in Florida for Nursing: Men. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (12/8/2002)
...chains in Central Florida, Orlando Regional...System Inc. and Florida Hospital, say...percent of their nursing staffs. Boosting...home and in school -- that nursing...services at the Florida Nursing ...

University of South Florida Nursing College Gets Ready for Expansion. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (9/5/2003)
...changes to the nursing school come as the nation...According to the Florida Hospital Association...000 by 2020. A Florida Department of Education...enroll in bachelor of nursing degree programs at Florida ...

Florida Nursing Shortage Reaches 11-Year High, Survey Says. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (7/4/2001)
...otherwise have gone into nursing. Allman said hospitals...promoting careers in nursing -- to the point that...students to get into nursing schools, she said. But when the shortage eased -- in Florida, the vacancy rate fell...

The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida Receives Grant to Address National/Regional Nursing Shortages. Biotech Week (9/2/2009)
...established Generation RN(sm) to address the nursing workforce shortage in Florida. Since 2004, BCBSF has donated more than $17 million to Florida's nursing schools to increase the nursing workforce. Over...

Florida Hospitals Donate Funds to Attract More Students to Nursing. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (7/14/2001)
...more students to take up nursing careers and alleviate a current critical nursing shortage affecting hospitals...10 hospitals in South Florida, announced Friday that...to pay the tuitions of nursing students at Miami-Dade...Community College's ...

Hospital Scholarships in Florida Promote Nursing. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (7/11/2002)
...hospitals in HCA's West Florida Division, stretching...scholarship fund, due to Florida's severe shortage...given out in the West Florida Division with Doctors...the country's top nursing and medical technology schools. Previous health ...

Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida to Add Nursing School. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (2/6/2003)
...While a nursing school will add to PBA...also a shortage of nursing professors, which is preventing schools from increasing...Barry University's School of Nursing in Miami Shores...Bell said. Florida ...

Miami Dade College (Fla.) has received a $300,000 donation from the Jackson Memorial Foundation to help expand the school's nursing program to combat South Florida's critical nursing shortage.(grants & gifts)(Brief article) Diverse Issues in Higher Education (5/3/2007)
...received a $300,000 donation from the Jackson Memorial Foundation to help expand the school's nursing program to combat South Florida's critical nursing shortage. The donation will fund 80 full scholarships and add two full-time and up...