With a recent influx of state money, Florida’s top nursing schools with high-performing nursing programs hired more faculty, built new facilities, and expanded their programs to accept additional qualified applicants.

Yet it’s still not enough to end a nursing shortage that is predicted to leave Florida with 21,000 unfilled jobs this year and more in the future.

A 2021 report from the Florida Hospital Association and the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida projected that Florida would face a 59,000-nurse shortage by 2035 amid an aging and growing population.

Florida, the report said, needs to increase sharply the number of nursing school graduates.

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