Category Archives: Alumni & Friends

Countless Contributions to Nursing’s Future By UCF College of Nursing When the University of Central Florida College of Nursing received approval from the Florida Board of Governors to begin the state’s fifth doctoral program in nursing in spring 2003, it was considered key to solving the state’s shortage of nurses and nurse educators. At that time, it […]

Nurses can run successful businesses with a heart. Really. Long-time friends with UCF ties launched Nurses First Solutions in 2014 and with a little help from the UCF Incubator program have seen their company grow from three employees to 12 and revenue climb from $300,000 to $6 million. The say their keys to success have […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (June 22, 2017) – When long-time friends Alvin Cortez ’08 and Richard Manuel connected with the UCF Business Incubation Program to foster growth for their travel nurse staffing agency, they were asked a simple question: Why would somebody choose you rather than the company next to you? They had a simple answer. They […]

When Eliany Torrez Pon learned that her grandmother in Nicaragua had ovarian cancer, she and her family sent money to relatives in their home country to help. Pon contributed the $2,000 she had saved to pay for her spring semester tuition, knowing she would not able to pay for classes — as a DREAMer (Development, […]

Graduates from two of UCF’s nurse practitioner programs achieved a perfect score on their national board certification exams this semester. Altogether, 29 College of Nursing’s graduates achieved certification as either adult-gerontology primary nurse practitioners or family nurse practitioners, two specialties that are in growing demand in the health care market. The certification exams are the […]

As National Nurse Practitioner Week comes to a close, the UCF College of Nursing would like to honor its nurse practitioner alumni for passing their board certification exams. The most recent graduates of two nurse practitioner programs at the UCF College of Nursing passed their national certification exam, earning the college a 100 percent pass rate in both categories and exceeding national averages. […]