More than 7,600 aspiring nurses cheated the health care system and obtained fraudulent nursing degrees from three nursing schools, according to federal authorities, in a scheme health care professionals say could undermine trust in the profession.
for allegedly participating in a wire fraud scene that created the shortcuts for thousands to receive bogus nursing diplomas.
Now, state licensing boards nationwide have annulled the licenses of dozens of nurses who were practicing with fake degrees.of nurses tied to the scheme, but officials say there could still be more nurses who need to be let go. “For those individuals, their RN or registered nurse license is the one that is annulled. But if they have met the licensing requirements to practice as an LPN, that LPN license is still, in most cases, active,” Otto said.local Atlanta TV station WSB-TV
“I think I feel more dismayed than surprised,” Hage said. “We work so hard as nurses to be credible and to be viewed as ethical by the patients that we care for, and then when somebody tries to game the system, or do something illegal like this, it really offends and concerns all nurses.” But Kennedy says she is not surprised that a scandal like this occurred in the health care industry because some states have“So we're hoping through this scandal that we can leverage this and can restore some of the authority that legislatures have stripped from boards of nursing throughout this country,” Kennedy said.believe nurses have very high honesty and ethical standards compared with more than a dozen other professions.
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