State Info:
Florida has one of the largest populations in America making it a great place to enter the healthcare profession. This is because the more people there are the more need here is for healthcare professionals to take care of them. Working as an LPN in Florida is a great way to ensure job security and peace of mind in your career.
Not only are there many fantastic schools to choose form but you will also be able to improve your career and job prospects even further by taking part in one of the many LPN to RN programs that you will be eligible once you have successfully completed your LPN qualification.
Licensing Requirements
In order to be licensed as an LPN in the state of Florida you will have to firstly hold a high school diploma in order to get into an LPN program. On top of that you will need to take part in both a health check and criminal background check, both of which must come back clean. These are the requirements that you will have to meet before you can even enroll for an LPN program. Once you have satisfied these LPN requirements you will then be eligible to enroll in a program. The program must be certified with the Florida state board of nursing in order for you to be properly licensed once you have completed the program. If you are not accredited with the board than all of your hard work as well as the money you have paid will have been wasted. Once you have completed a program you will have to write the NCLEX-PN exam which will then allow you to be fully licensed as an LPN to practice in the state of Florida.
Exam Fee
The fees involved in writing the NCLEX-PN exam as well as the fees you will have to pay in order to be licensed as an LPN in the state of Florida are as follows:
You will have to pay $200 to Pearson Vue in order to be able to write the NCLEX-PN exam
On top of that there is a fee of $204 which, alongside the clean criminal and health check, will license you with the Florida State Board of Nursing
You will also have to pay $145 every two years for the renewal of your license, as well as providing proof of 24 hours of continual education in those two years
Salaries
| Program | Hourly Rate | Annual Rate |
| LPN | $19.03 | $39520 |
| RN | $30.01 | $62436 |
| BSN | $30 | $63,876 |
Financial Aid Available
There are several ways for you to get financial aid for your studies in Florida:
- Apply at FAFSA to find out what loans and grants you are eligible for
- Grants: a grant is an amount of money given to you for your studies that you will not have to repay
- Scholarships: a scholarship is like a grant except that your academic record has an influence on your chances of whether or not you receive it – it is not simply needs based
- Loans: a loan is an amount of money that you can borrow and pay back in order to finance your studies
- Work-study programs: in such a program you will be able to work on the campus of your school in return for a small income which will allow you to fund your studies
- Loan-forgiveness programs: once you have finished studying and it comes time to repay your loan a loan forgiveness program will deal with part of your loan and in exchange you can work for a non-profit organization for a set period of time
The above opportunities are provided by a number of different organizations in Florida and it is well worth your while to find out more about each.
List of Schools
Florida is one of the states that offer the largest selection of LPN schools. Some of the schools from the wide selection that can be found in the state of Florida are listed below:
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Academy for Practical Nursing & Health Occupations
5154 Okeechobee Blvd., Suite 201
West Palm Beach, FL 33417
(561) 683-1400
Bradford-Union Area Vocational Technical Center
609 N. Orange Street
Starke, FL 33610
(904) 966-6764
Brevard Community College
1519 Clearlake Road
Cocoa, FL 32922
(321) 433-7577
Brewster Technical Center
2222 N. Tampa Street
Tampa, FL 33602
(813) 276-5448
Central Florida Community College
3001 SW College Road
Ocala, FL 34474
(352) 237-2111
Charlotte County Technical Center
18300 Toledo Blade Blvd.
Port Charlotte, FL 33948
(941) 255-7500
Community Education School-Indian River County
1990 25th St.
Vero Beach, FL 32960
(772) 564-3000
Concorde Career Institute Jacksonville
7960 Arlington Expressway
Jacksonville, FL 32211
(904) 725-0525
Coral Ridge Training School
2740 E. Oakland Park Blvd.
Oakland Park, FL 33306
(954) 714-0061
Dade County Lindsey Hopkins Technical Center
750 NW 20th Street
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 324-6070
Dade County Miami Edison High School
6101 NW 5th Court
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 751-7337
Daytona Beach Community College – Flagler Palm Coast
3000 Palm Coast Parkway Southeast
Palm Coast, FL 32137
(386) 246-4800
Daytona Beach Community College
1200 West International Speedway Boulevard
Daytona Beach, FL 32120-2811
(386) 255-8131
Erwin Vocational Technical Center
2010 E. Hillsborough Avenue
Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 231-1800
First Coast Technical Institute
2980 Collins Avenue
St. Augustine, FL 32084-9970
(904) 824-4401
Florida Community College at Jacksonville – Nassau Center
76346 William Burgess Blvd
Yulee, FL 32097
(904) 548-4400
Florida Community College at Jacksonville
4501 Capper Road
Jacksonville, FL 32218-4499
(904) 766-6582
Florida National College – Hialeah
4425 W 20th Avenue
Hialeah, FL 33012
(305) 821-3333
Florida National College – Miami
11865 SW 26th Street, #H3
Miami, FL 33175
(305) 226-9999
Gadsden Technical Institute
201 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Quincy, FL 32351
(850) 875-8324
Gulf Coast College
3910 US Hwy 301 North
Tampa, FL 33619
(813) 620-1446
Gulf Coast Community College – Gulf/Franklin Center
3800 Garrison Avenue
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
(850) 769-1551
Health Opportunity Technical Center
18441 NW 2nd Avenue, Suite 300
Miami, FL 33169
(305) 249-2275
Higher-Level Medical Institute
6014 Hwy 19 North, Suite 250
New Port Richey, FL 34652
(727) 847-6855
Indian River Community College – Chastain
2400 SE Salerno Road
Stuart, FL 34997
(772) 283-6550
Indian River Community College – Dixon Hendry
2229 NW 9th Avenue
Okeechobee, FL 34972
(863) 763-8017
Indian River Community College – Fort Pierce
3209 Virginia Avenue
Fort Pierce, FL 34981
(772) 462-4700
Indian River Community College – Mueller
6155 College Lane
Vero Beach, FL 32966
(772) 569-0333
Inlet Grove Community High School
7071 Garden Road
Riviera Beach, FL 33404
(561) 881-4600
Keiser Career College – Greenacres
6812 Forest Hill Blvd, Suite D-1
Greenacres, FL 33413
(561) 433-2330
Keiser Career College – Miami Lakes
14505 Commerce Way
Miami Lakes, FL 33016
(305) 820-5003
Lake City Community College
149 SE College Place
Lake City, FL 32025-8703
(386) 752-1822
Lake Technical Center
2001 Kurt Street
Eustis, FL 32726
(352) 589-2250
Lee County High Tech Center Central
3800 Michigan Avenue
Fort Myers, FL 33916
(239) 334-4544
Lee County High Tech Center North
360 Santa Barbara Blvd. N
Cape Coral, FL 33993-2479
(239) 574-4440
Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology Immokalee
614 South 5th Street
Immokalee, FL 34142
(239) 867-2880
Bethune Center Manatee Technical Institute
5520 Lakewood Ranch Blvd
Bradenton, FL 34211-2100
(941) 752-8100
Mercy Hospital School of Practical Nursing
3663 S. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33133
(305) 285-2777
Miami-Dade College
950 N.W. 20th Street
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 237-4101
North Florida Community College
325 NW Turner Davis Drive
Madison, FL 32340
(850) 973-1626
Palm Beach Community College – Belle Glade
1977 College Drive
Belle Glade, FL 33430
(561) 868-3565
Palm Beach Community College
4200 Congress Avenue
Lake Worth, FL 33461-4796
(561) 868-3565
Palm Beach County
3310 Forest Hill Boulevard, Suite A-330
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
(561) 434-7467
Pensacola Junior College
5555 West Highway 98
Pensacola, FL 32507
(850) 484-2254
Pinellas Technical Education Center-Clearwater Campus
6100 154th Avenue North
Clearwater, FL 33760
(727) 538-7167
Ridge Technical Center
7700 State Road 544 East
Winter Haven, FL 33881
(863) 419-3060
Rose Training Institute
301 3rd Street NW, Suite 212
Winter Haven, FL 33881
(863) 292-8101
SABER, Inc.
3990 West Flagler Street, Suite 103
Miami, FL 33134
(305) 443-7601
Santa Fe Community College
3000 NW 83rd Street
Gainesville, FL 32606
(352) 395-5589
Seminole Community College
100 Weldon Boulevard
Sanford, FL 32773-6199
(407) 328-4722
Sigma Institute of Health Careers, Inc
2800 W. Oakland Park Blvd
Oakland Park, FL 33311
(954) 914-5908
South Florida Community College
600 W. College Drive
Avon Park, FL 33825-9356
(863) 453-6661
South Tech Academy
1300 30th Ave
Boynton Beach, FL 33426
(561) 369-7004
Suwannee-Hamilton Technical Center
415 SW Pinewood Drive
Live Oak, FL 32064
(386) 364-2750
Tampa Bay Technical High School
6410 Orient Road
Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 744-8360
Taylor College
5190 SE 125th Street
Belleview, FL 34420
(352) 245-4119
Technical Education Center of Osceola
501 Simpson Road
Kissimmee, FL 34744
(407) 344-5080
Tom P. Haney Vocational-Technical Center
3016 Highway 77
Panama City, FL 32405
(850) 747-5500
Virginia College at Pensacola
19 West Garden Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
(850) 436-8444
Walton Career Development Center
761 North 20th Street
Defuniak Springs, FL 32433
(850) 892-1240
Washington-Holmes Technical Center
757 Hoyt Street
Chipley, FL 32428
(850) 638-1180
Rasmussen College
2127 Grand Boulevard
Holiday, FL 34691
(727) 942-0069
Withlacoochee Technical Institute
1201 W. Main Street
Inverness,, FL 34450-4696
(352) 726-2430
