Category Archives: College & Campus News

After completing the rigorous 15-month program, nearly 70 career changers will graduate from UCF this summer to begin new careers as RNs and help address the nursing shortage. An IT analyst and project manager. A high school chemistry teacher. A private pilot. They come from various career paths, but now share similar futures. This week, […]

Nearly 300 nursing students will graduate this week from UCF, answering the call for more nurses and nurse leaders. Meet the newest cohort of Knight nurses. The Summer Class of 2022 celebrated the completion of their nursing degree at the College of Nursing’s professional recognition ceremony last night and will walk across the stage at […]

Fundraising launches for the new, permanent home with expanded space and cutting-edge technology to combat the nursing shortage and foster interdisciplinary research. UCF’s College of Nursing would be able to graduate more nurses and nursing faculty, helping to combat the nation’s critical nursing shortage while fostering more innovation and collaboration with a new building at Lake Nona, […]

Meet the new cohort of accelerated Second Degree nursing students who were awarded the national Helene Fuld Health Trust scholarship. Their backgrounds are vast – from a bartender to a former Miss Hawai’i to a U.S. Marine veteran and more. While some have always felt a calling to become a nurse, for others it was […]

Today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the 2022-23 state budget, which includes transformational funding for the UCF College of Nursing. The investment is allocated for two areas: $6.9 million in reoccurring PIPELINE funding to increase nursing student enrollment to address the nursing shortage, and $29 million to build a new, state-of-the-art building for the College […]

On May 21, UCF celebrated exemplary young alumni who were honored in the 30 Under 30 Class of 2022. Among the honorees is College of Nursing alumna Annabeth Huff ’15BSN, a pediatric nurse practitioner and nurse mentor who is passionate about her patients, the profession and the community. This is not the first time Huff […]

Max Jones beat the odds and is now pursuing a career path in pediatric oncology thanks to the mentorship of his nurses, including a very special alumna, Delaney Postma ’15. The story of this resilient student and the nurse who inspired him was covered by hundreds of NBC and CBS stations across the country in honor of National Nurse’s […]

The College of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs, which were recently recognized among the nation’s best by U.S. News and World Report, recently added another tool to their teaching arsenal – the gift of an ultrasound machine. Donated by Roslyn and Jody Burttram, the new technology will be housed in the internationally accredited […]

Congratulations to the following College of Nursing faculty members who were honored by UCF with 2022 research and teaching incentive awards. Research Incentive Award The UCF Research Incentive Award program recognizes outstanding research, scholarly, or creative activity that advances the body of knowledge in a particular field, including interdisciplinary research and collaborations. Recipients are honored […]

More than two dozen nursing students from the UCF Orlando and Daytona campuses participated in the National Student Nurses’ Association 70th Anniversary Convention in Salt Lake City. Earlier this month, 26 nursing students from the Traditional BSN and accelerated Second Degree BSN programs along with two faculty advisors flew across the country to represent the […]