Three South Florida schools have been accused of selling fake nursing diplomas and transcripts amid a nationwide surge for the need for nurses. NBC’s Steven Romo has more on the alarming $100 million dollar scheme federal prosecutors say helped thousands of people take shortcuts to nursing jobs.
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I don’t see the problem as long as they are learning on the job.
Hmmm…
Heterosexual is between Man and women and pro life. Lgbtq is anything goes and pro abortion which do you think will molest children and abuse them?
Lol😂I knew this would happen!!
Miami is ground zero for medical fraud. In 2008, I wrote an in depth investigative article for CNN on the subject. Detroit was another hub of fraud, but Miami and South Florida were unmatched. Back then, I found 674 fake companies in the Miami area alone that were all defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. Most used a PO Box not even having a facility.
For prosthetic devices, Miami accounted for 90% of all fraud nationwide. Of those 674 fake companies, 661 of them were established by Cuban immigrants or Cuban Americans. This was a pattern extending more than 30 years back as well as up to this day.
Looking at the records of these 3 companies in this report shows they were established and controlled mostly by Cuban immigrants, Cuban Americans with a few Haitian immigrants mixed in.
After researching nearly 50 years of medical fraud in the US, I’ve come to find most of it can be traced back to one place and one type of people. Miami’s Latin community seems to have brought a bit of their old habits with them from the country they came from.
On the surface it sounds bias, prejudice, perhaps even racist. But the numbers don’t lie. Why this is true isn’t something I can answer. It remains factual all the same.
Just wow 😮
15,000 dollars….wow !!
Thats a heck of a price to pay for a short cut.
Ok this rings bells of something that recently happened here in SC, a woman named Alyssa beth Steele 37 years old, used Someone else’s RN diploma from Georgia to gain employment in the state of SC between 2020 and 2021, at 7 different places including nursing homes and assisted living facilities. She received charges consisting of 7 counts of neglect of a vulnerable adult, 5 counts of unlicensed practice as a registered nurse, 1 count of financial identity fraud to obtain employment, 1 count of obtaining signature or property u der false pretenses valued at 10k or more. Officials said all 7 facilities are fully cooperating with investigators. My thing is when you are hiring someone, make sure you are really thoroughly doing a background of this person. Make sure their licensure is legit and real no matter what it takes and how far you have to go. Check to see what school they got it from and when they graduated, when they attended classes etc. I do feel however some of this should have fallen on the State and the hiring managers at these facilities. She may have knew someone on the inside and they may have been looking out for her. You know the old saying, it’s not about what you know it’s about who you know and I hate to say this but it has some truth to it. Friends and family get friends and family positions unfairly. Which is unfair to others and at most unfair to the patients and residents and families and public who put their trust in these people and places. It’s only a matter of time before you are caught but just to mention this is 1 person. No telling how many other people are scheming the system to gain employment, and not only with nursing diplomas, with any kind of diploma or certification that they are using. I know for a fact that it is happening. It’s only a matter of time for you.
We should let them go back to a school and get their diploma in the correct way. If they choose to help other. We need nurse now.
They need to find all 2300 of them and revoke their license immediately
*7600….and they already know who they are, and they’ve already started having licenses annulled. 26 in Delaware, Georgia sent out letters telling ppl to turn in their licenses. This wasn’t just some make-shift investigation. They’re coming for those licenses. I know those fake nurses are shi##ing bricks right now…I bet some quit….some probably even fled the country.
7600?!?
2300?!?
fire them
I wouldn’t doubt it if their we’re fake doctors out there too..with fake degrees..it’s really sad
Relax your Ignorance people, they have to also pass the NCLEX. If they have no real knowledge or education then they won’t pass that. Unless the educational system is a scam and it just takes common knowledge to pass the NCLEX.
What ? Good 👍
They need to pull all 2300 ppl and make them go to school.
Very disturbing
please review all nursing schools in Florida this is scary!
USA is very strict with immigrant US RNs who have all the credentials, training and experience , mostly as a Filipino USRN we need to take the English exam many times before we can pass IELTS to have our visa screen but these nursing schools in Florida are producing fake nursing degrees, so sad! so unfair, the safety of the public in Florida is in danger now. and the good RNs in Florida will be affected by the impact of this issue, so so sad.
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Wow, this is crazy!!! Ppl actually went to school and studied hard and these ppl actually did this? There’s a reason why you have to know what to do. You can’t fake helping someone. It can mean a matter of life or death.
0:57 the school is located at a rundown strip mall next to a Oriental Massage Parlor. LOL
You would think that the nursing board wouldn’t allow them to get licensure; without a nursing degree from an accredited nursing school. How were they able to sit for licensure exams without a degree from an accredited nursing school? I have so many ?s.
Lock those greedy lazy wolves up
I guess unqualified personnel suits much better into the pandemic religion system…
Is this why so many ppl died doing covid? Now we see why they twerking in the Surgery Room.. acting ratchet. Couldn’t handle the pressure. COVID showed a decline in Nurses , an indeed in the Health System. Now the Icing on the cake. Once the health system goes wicked. Society is doom.. any of u Doctor’s can tell me ” What’s the stock to invest in CANCER???🤔🤔🤔
they “COULD” lose their licenses? how is it even a question and how were their licenses not immediately revoked as soon as this scheme was discovered
How did they pass the boards?
I would like to see they face. See what they look like who did such a stupid Act. And who was the beneficiary what did they last name sound like.
That is terrifying. I already don’t trust doctors after they misdiagnosed me for several years with IBS, when it was a bad gallbladder. Now I really don’t trust them.
I’m wondering if this has something to do with Aspen University nursing in Arizona.
They had to at least passed the boards to get a license I hope
They was giving the Answer to the test that was part of the 15,000 they paid towards it.
Oh my goodness, this is terrible 😢
Hope this one am doing “CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT”(CNA) course is not part of this fake nursing program???
Please someone should put me on the right track because am not willing to risk my time/money/efforts/energy without achievement🙏🙏
Omg in America 🇺🇸 fake documents I can’t believe fraud is around the globe 🌐
I don’t get why it’s easier to fake your degree I know like so many nurses with associates that they got in like 18 months for less than $5000 and are or acting competent RNs. I don’t see how skipping 18 months is worth it. They probably spent that much time prepping for the NCLEX anyway
Hello, how are you doing?
Fraud comming out of NJ and incompetence in DE? Shocking!
Hopefully a their patience are fake.
The crazy thing is how those “nurses” passed the boards? Is it that easy to pass? Is the NCLEX that easy?
Have them retake NCLEX and get re-orientation with the most strict preceptors. Let’s see if they can act like actors lols! I’ve seen so many traveler RN pretending they have experience and yet can’t even initiate a pure-wick, suction set-up, tube feedings!!! These accelerated degrees doesn’t make sense.
Now you have these scammers in nurse managers, NPs, and other advanced roles. All I know is the state board of nursing better take all those fake licenses away.
no wonder i see a lot of recruitment of nurses here in philippines for US
Any nurse working with these fake diplomas should be tracked & revoked. You don’t take short cut with people lives. It’s unacceptable.
Why are people surprise? It’s Florida. Worst medical practices are here. Hey, It’s less regulation over here. Bad doctors move to Florida.. Don’t hate to playa but hate less regulation.
They make it hard and expensive to complete the course so people will do fake won’t they hmmm? Many more might be in there that already learned up and gone far ahead 😕
God help us.
Does the government plan on investigating the GANGSTALKING?
It’s FLORIDA! Is anyone really surprised!?
IT’S ABOUT TIME TO PROSECUTE
FAKES CNI COLLEGE ORANGE CA
RESPECTS TO PROSECUTOR FBI.
Dang!!!
Not supporting this, but if they passed their boards, what’s the issue?!!
Sheesh I just graduated from nursing school in December !! lmao if I don’t pass the nclex imma be so mad
I want to know if these people actually worked in hospitals which is where a lot of patients are “hurt”by medication errors etc. or if they worked in nursing homes and stuff.
Something is lose is FL if nursing schools are able to carry on this scam. Oh, I know, someone is not regulating the nursing schools. Why not? Florida government get with it!
THEY HAD TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY GOT AROUND NOT DOING CLINICAL. SO THE STUDENTS SURELY KNEW.
They don’t have a governmental verification site for licenses???
Aha. And they’re always talking $hit about us.
Losing license they never earned them 😂😂it’s fake so it’s not a license ppl stay away from hospitals
How can they loose something that was never there’s.None of them earned them
ok glad I’m happy next let’s get on with the Asian community for charging $3000 for fake license its also dangerous… oh the fake insurance license as well thank you.
These people had to have some type of education to allow them to pass the NCLEX. Many of these people were already degreed in other areas and others had previous healthcare knowledge, and work expert née which allowed them to pass as nursing students. They didn’t go into the job blindly but rather the doctored credentials took the place of classroom and book hours. Nursing is a skill perfected in a clinical setting where they actually worked.
Am a bit confused dont they have a Professional body in u.s?They have to request via nursing and Midwifery counci in u.k
The university send your details to inform them before they can give you a pin number in u.k
Maybe avoid medications from Oregon for awhile.
🙋🏾♂️ Find every one of them immediately!
They should publish a list of all these fugazi nurses and which hospitals they work in –
If they can cheat and lie about a fake education and degree, imagine what kind of patient care they are not providing.
I bet the majority of them work for Inteley care
How are you doing
It’s funny how this comes up after the shortage of nurses across the nation. Who is the big fish, no pun intended, where is the $114 million, who are the big fish in this operation?
What the news reports neglect to say is that many students, LPN-RN, did attend actual classes, clinicals and took exams for an entire year, after completing all the prerequisites. Stop implying that all the students just paid and a few weeks later received a degree. Obviously, some did just that, but I find it hard to believe, that amount of nurses just bought degrees without going to school. One bad apple does not spoil the entire bunch.
Wow..this is the same as White rich people paying to get their kids into schools…
Hello, how are you doing
Disaster in health institutions in the states
Not expecting that in developed countries.
These nurses probably did better than some of the people I’ve worked with.
This is horrible, all these hard working nurses who studies and worked hard to achieve their goal are now working alongside someone who cheated, knows little and can seriously jeopardize a patient’s life. prosecute to the fullest and check on the files of every patient they treated
how would they even know if they did things that harmed patients? This is really dangerous. They need to remove the nurses.
Every patient probably asking their nurses, where they got their diplomas 😂
I remember my old marketing mgr had a fake degree. She was head of the marketing dept for a fortune 500 company…in Florida.
They should check at other online schools. Here’s 1, Uni of Phoex.
Ok this how it works for those who don’t know , when you go to the school after you pay the first thing you will do is start studying for the state board and they give you a little bit of clinical , The school has the pre state board test to teach them before they go take the state board so can have the license!!
This has been the case for many years as I’ve had many bad nurses during my hospital/doc office visits.
And I’m sure this is related to the fact that the US has a much higher rate of deaths related to Covid than the rest of the world.
Nicole Sirotek’s allegations deserve closer scrutiny.
Biden fault. he should be responsible. He always wants to have more jobs more jobs. don’t care about the quality. >> fake jobs. so that more crimes. and now we have fake nursing school diplomas.
Vote for Republicans.
ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT THEY HAVE NO STATE LICENSE? THEY KILLED MY AUNT & GRANDMOTHER IN THE HOSPITAL🥲
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Good luck to all the fakers and I know a few! Your LPN degree won’t help you pay that mortgage.
COVID deaths not due to COVID but due unqualified nurses.
I am not a nurse but this is what I think ( everybody’s getting ripped off by everybody). If you willing to pay 15k for a license and don’t want to go to work. That license is just nothing but a piece of paper. If you go to work with that piece of paper then you still have to pay taxes. But if you go to school and willing pay a large amount of money then committed your times in school for years without worrying about your personal bills you have to pay. Even when you got hired for a job. Working under bad management, working under a corrupted hospitals or a bad nursing homes. I do believe these are the hardest challenges after holding a license. The prices or amount of money already set by the government on things that you like to do , things that you wish you could succeeded in life, things that you want to own. In the end your life efforts will become taxes still going back into their own pockets. We don’t blame on peoples taking a short cut like this and we also don’t blame on peoples who like sitting at home keep receiving government benefits without doing anything. Just asking them a question. If the nursing license in the school would be cost as much as a fake license or a little cheaper. Do you still think everybody still want to pick the short cut route to get that license….
Of course this happened in FL. Who’s surprised?
what to do to identify the fraudulents :
1- Check the number and terms of payment whenever there is suspicion (Proof of payment is important someone who makes payments or only payment close to the date of their NCLEX exam taking is very lucky to pay to obtain the transcript The regular student makes several payments, generally at the beginning of the cycle of studies and throughout the course of it.
2- These officials must communicate the names of all those who have paid for their transcripts and the names of these fraudulent nurses must be displayed in hospitals and in newspapers in order to restore the profession’s credibility
Unfortunately this is nothing new. Period. They scrutinize foreign nurses bc of this fraudulent activity being perpetrated by the “University” in their country of origin. I have worked with foreign nursing assistants at one hospital who were NOT attending school to discover they magically became an RN a few weeks later and was practicing at a different facility. She couldn’t start an IV (ok..well some nurses can’t so no judgement there even though she was going in at a 90degree angle) and wanted to hang blood with D5NS…D5NS!!!! You must have 2 people sign off on blood prior to transfusion. I walked into the patient’s room to go through the double check and I was shocked to the core! It scared me bcuz what else had this person done that caused patient harm?!
Or a so called seasoned RN from another country who had worked at this hospital for YEARS. I found out from another staff member that she NEVER passed the boards. Her coworkers knew and covered for her bcuz apparently she was an RN back in her country but somehow lacked the ability to pass the RN boards here in the U.S. I observed her throughout the shift and found her coworkers covering for her..for everything including caring for a stable post op patient.
I reported them all to hospital administration in addition to all state licensing boards because it is dangerous to unsuspecting patients and causes patient harm.
My education and experience was hard won..I paid my dues and worked hard. I love being a nurse and taking classes and CEUs so I may continue to grow and learn. Every job I have held has done an EXTENSIVE background check including my education. I not only had to present unofficial transcripts but the reached out to the school for official transcripts.
The State Nursing Boards asks for transcripts from your school BEFORE you can sit for boards. They investigate. They have a list of accepted accredited schools. So this fake shock from the State Nursing Boards is a load of bull.
Now as an aside..the nurses who PASSED the boards with their fake credentials were seasoned nurses bcuz the tests are filled with case studies that require MAJOR critical thinking skills that cannot be faked. They aren’t a danger (as far as passing boards and practicing) but they did knowingly commit fraud.
This just scares me from ever attempting college again…I can’t trust any college now, how do I know it’s not a fake college?
There must be allot of fake In school this is a failed country America you failed the next generation
What about the one who collectable PENSIONS,,THEY’RE GOING TO JAIL, THAT’S A FELONY CRIME
What about these DOCTORS NOT TAKING THEY’RE EXAMS AND GAINING LICENSE..
NAIL SALONS ALL DAY, NOT LICENSED,,
HAIR SALONS ALL DAY,, COSMETOLOGIST LICENSE,
DEFINITELY THESE PLASTIC SURGEONS,, CHECK THEM ..
Just to clarify: they were referring to LVNs/LPNs…. NOT Bachelor or Masters prepared RNs. BSN and MSNs are degree programs. These people got (fake) diplomas which is more like getting a certificate of completion and is NOT the equivalent to getting a bachelor’s or master’s degree in nursing.
When these fake nurses start giving wrong doses they will end up paying in jail.
How are they going to take their license when they have false documents and not a real license in the first place. They should have swarmed the hospitals where each of them worked and picked them up as they got off shift in every state and hospital that they were working at. Charged them all for endangering the welfare of an at risk person, and possession of narcotics if they ever had their hands on any controlled substances. Theft by deceit from each employer etc… So many charges that they should have leveled on them for this.
Well anyone that works in healthcare knows you’re on your own now. Many experienced nurses have left the bedside for lack of appreciation and now it’s about the money. So many people are traveling and caring for your loved ones and it’s about $$$. Not vested in the facility so care has gone down. Some have skills and many do not. Upper management wanted to stuff their pockets so now this is what you have, a circus. I advise everyone to exercise, eat right and keep your appointments because it’s a done deal as far as hospitals are concerned. Now they are hiring anything walking and pushing anyone through schools to take care of you. All because of GREED!