Brightmed Health Institute Student Defense Lawyer | Davie, Florida

Brightmed Health Institute, at 2790 N. University Drive in Davie, is an approved Florida prelicensure nursing programme whose first-time NCLEX results in 2025 sat a long way below the statutory minimum.

37.50% of 40 first-time candidates

The programme passed 37.50% of 40 first-time candidates against a floor of 76.05% — fifteen passes and twenty-five failures. One point of caution worth stating: the Board of Nursing’s pass-rate report codes this programme at associate-degree level, while the Department of Health’s programme record lists an approved baccalaureate programme at the same address. An institution can hold more than one approval, so the exact programme a particular student was enrolled in should be confirmed from their own enrolment documents rather than assumed — the applicable statutory floor differs between the two.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing programme’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programmes — in 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programmes and 77.17% for practical-nursing programmes. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a programme two consecutive years below the floor at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges the programme to disclose that probationary status in writing to its students and applicants — a failure to give that notice is an independent, statute-based misrepresentation theory against a school that enrolled a student while on probation. A single year below the floor is not probation, and the Board of Nursing publishes no probation roster, so probationary status must be established from board minutes and orders rather than inferred. Every Florida programme is tabulated on the Florida nursing programme pass-rate page.

Either way the programme was well below the applicable floor. For a dismissed student that reframes the question: a school failing roughly two candidates in three is not in a strong position to argue that a dismissal reflected the student’s inability to meet a standard the school itself was not meeting.

A private school, so the statute students rely on does not apply

Most writing about Florida student dismissal assumes a public college, where Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) supplies notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied by counsel and a burden that rests on the institution. This is a private institution. None of that section reaches it.

What governs instead is the enrolment agreement, the catalogue and the student and programme handbooks, read as a contract. Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences establishes that a Florida student dismissed in breach of the school’s own contractual undertakings has a claim, and that damages can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition. So the work is documentary: identify the exact promises the school made about process, and show which it did not keep.

Two further things matter at schools of this kind. Many enrolment agreements contain an arbitration clause, and whether it binds a student depends on the version signed, how broadly it is drafted, whether its cost terms are unconscionable and whether the school has waived it — that question comes first, because it decides whether there is a courtroom at all. And where a school is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education rather than regionally accredited, the CIE complaint route exists alongside any civil claim and is often the faster pressure point.

Where a Brightmed case is filed

Davie is in Broward County, which 28 U.S.C. section 89(c) places in the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division. The school is variously listed at Davie and Hollywood addresses; both are Broward County, so the answer does not change, but the address of the site where the events occurred should still be confirmed.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

  • Resolve the arbitration question first, from the agreement the student actually signed.
  • Assemble the enrolment agreement, catalogue and programme handbook for the correct edition, and pin down the promises about process.
  • Test the progression arithmetic — withdrawals, repeats and clinical failures are often counted in ways the handbook does not authorise.
  • Use the Commission for Independent Education complaint route where the school is CIE-licensed, in parallel with the civil claim.
  • Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every future licensure and transfer application.

How Florida student dismissal cases work generally is set out on the Florida student defence page.

Other Florida technical and career institutions

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida technical and career institutions:

Common questions about Brightmed Health Institute cases

What was Brightmed’s NCLEX pass rate?

37.50% of 40 first-time candidates in 2025 — fifteen passes and twenty-five failures — against a statutory floor of 76.05% for associate-degree programmes.

Is Brightmed an associate or a bachelor’s programme?

Both appear in official records: the Board of Nursing’s pass-rate report codes it at associate level, while the Department of Health’s programme record shows an approved bachelor’s programme at the same address. Schools can hold more than one approval, so confirm from your own enrolment documents.

Does Florida’s public-college discipline statute apply?

No. Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) governs public colleges. Brightmed is private, so the enrolment agreement and handbooks govern as a contract, under Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences.

Which court covers Brightmed?

The Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division. Davie is in Broward County, which is in the Southern District under 28 U.S.C. section 89(c).