Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the LINE and PIPELINE programs are producing more than 1,000 new nurses every year.<\/p>\n
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis announced $20 million in additional funding to nursing programs across Florida colleges and universities.<\/p>\n
During a press conference Tuesday morning at St. Pete College in Pinellas Park, the governor highlighted Florida’s efforts to invest in nurse education, stating that more than $500 million has been invested across the state since 2022.<\/p>\n
DeSantis said this is in part due to the Linking Industry to Nursing Education (LINE) Program<\/a> and Prepping Institutions, Programs, Employers, and Learners through Incentives for Nursing Education (PIPELINE) Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each program supports nursing education programs through funds, scholarships and other incentives to fight off nursing shortages nationwide.<\/p>\n According to the governor, the programs are producing more than 1,000 new nurses every year compared to before they were launched.<\/p>\n “That’s a meaningful increase,” he said.<\/p>\n St. Pete College specifically has had more than 340,000 total anticipated LINE investments, with the school’s National Licensing Examination pass rate reaching 94.1% for the most recent fiscal year. That’s in comparison to the state’s 83% overall pass rate.<\/p>\n “They’re getting the job done, and we really appreciate that,” DeSantis said.<\/p>\n Of the $20 in funding, $14.5 million is going towards state colleges and private post-secondary education, with another $6 million to state universities.<\/p>\n “Week after week, we continue to make announcements that speak to real results, real impacts that students are feeling,” Florida Commissioner of Education Stasi Kamoutsas said.<\/p>\n In the most recent state budget, more than $130 million was approved for the LINE and PIPELINE programs.<\/p>\n “The mission continues,” DeSantis said. “We understand the need is there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the LINE and PIPELINE programs are producing more than 1,000 new nurses every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-125259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}