St. Thomas University announced Wednesday that it is bucking the trend of disappointing statewide licensing exam results for registered nurses by earning a 100% passage rate while planning a new 99,000-square-foot nursing college building.
The news comes as Florida's 84.9% first-time National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) RN passage rate trailed Guam, the District of Columbia, all 50 states, and the 91.2% national average, according to a new report from the Florida Center for Nursing at the University of South Florida.
STU recently began fundraising to build a state-of-the-art building to house the university's newly created College of Nursing and STU's College of Health Sciences & Technology. To support the planned nursing college building, STU is seeking a health-care provider as a funding and educational partner and asking Florida's legislature for $3 million.
"St. Thomas University is leading Florida in the recruitment, retention, and professional readiness of nursing students, with a one-on-one nursing student coaching program, preparatory exit course, and higher GPA requirements for science prerequisites," said Nashat "Nash" Abualhaija, Ph.D., RN, who became STU's Nursing College dean last March. "Our future nursing education building and new nursing degrees will go a long way toward plugging the state's nursing gap."
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