I went to my program and worked hard to get my license. I took hours to study, I cried before test and got sick from stress. I worked hard. These fake nurses need to be held accountable. This is disgusting and scary. They need to lose their licenses. This is crazy.

Employers should audit their nurses. Check their credentials. This is a lawsuit waiting to happen and they're a liability.

My mom was a Nurse Practitioner. She practiced nursing during the 80s, 90s and well into the 2000's. A good solidly trained nurse, like my mom could do it all. She worked in the emergency units, delivery rooms, Intensive Care Units, and Surgical Units of very prominent hospitals. She also worked (during her later years) in clinics and was way ahead of her time, in terms of providing true primary care to patients, as an NP. There was simply no "faking it" in those days. Nurses were given tremendous responsibility. My mom was often threatened, while working at hospitals, by physicians who felt they could bark orders at nurses.On one occasion (when she was working as a staff R.N.) she was told to administer a dosage to a patient via I.V., but she knew it wasn't the right dosage. The doctor asked if she was questioning his judgement as a doctor, and she told him that she was. She further told him that if he was so confident about the dosage, that he should administer it to the patient himself. When he went to complain, a senior doctor looked at the dosage and stated that it was way too much. The doctor never apologized, he just changed the order. Each and every day, she was tested. My mom would always say, you have to question everything, because if you are operating under a license, you are 100 percent liable if any mistakes are made. I feel sorry for patients who are treated by so-called nurses who are not actual registered nurses. It's a true travesty, to say the least.

It’s very unfair people buy the easy way out while nursing students like me are working hard everyday day to get a BSN degree the legit way.

"Could include losing their license". Ya don't say?

They need to find all 2300 of them and revoke their license immediately

Integrity is in short supply these days

the way the US scrutinizes migrant Nurses about their credentials and then took them a while to see this.

So disturbing and scared knowing that they were on the floor caring for patients !!! Ridiculous

Not surprised they're all in Florida, Born and raised there, I testify that it's the land of grifters and hustlers.

As a retired nurse ….I am sad to see this…I struggled with my schooling so many years ago…I was so proud as was my family that I finally got my degree….40 years later I retired…always proud to be a nurse….sad to know this goes on….

These fake nurses need to get a 'significant' fine, in addition to losing their license, provided they haven't injured someone already.

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.

How did they ever think they would get away with this given the scale of it?

This is crazy! These people are actively working and have no credentials. I can’t begin to imagine the wrongdoings behind this scandal.

People were mentioning those same schools on various social media sites about 5 years ago. They were asking for the addresses to these schools. So I am not surprised about the numbers of students that got caught up in this.

15,000 is a lot less money than spending 2 years of prerequisites and 2 years of a A nurse program. Unreal. Can they track these people who now have degrees?

As a Registered Nurse, this just sickens me. We work so hard for years to obtain our degrees and licenses to able to treat patients in a safe and effective manner. To put patients in harms way and cheat the rules is so wrong. Those who did this should be barred from practicing in any healthcare profession going forward on top of prosecution. Unethical people have no place in the healthcare industry.

i am in nursing school currently, and I am telling you it is mentally draining, the amount of stuff you learn is unbelievable but it is important. i cant imagine just studying for the test without having hands-on practice. and I'm in an ADN program with 2 years of study and one year of hands-on clinical that help you build that confidence. the "students" knew what they were doing.

and then we wonder why there are so many infections that run rampant in hospitals.

So you telling me that these people can continue to be nurses and it’s up to the state board WTF 😢

15,000 dollars....wow !! Thats a heck of a price to pay for a short cut.

This is so humiliating…

I saw a video here about dodgy nursing schools in Florida a few months ago. Short programs, limited teaching, poor quality clinical placements in nursing homes. The main thing was to pay the fee. Uninterested state officials supervising them. I suppose the main thing for DeSantis was they had no CRT.

Idk i think those nurses who got those fake degrees should also be prosecuted

how would they even know if they did things that harmed patients? This is really dangerous. They need to remove the nurses.

Any nurse working with these fake diplomas should be tracked & revoked. You don't take short cut with people lives. It's unacceptable.

Should release the list to the public!

Florida.... Where else....

of coarse they were in Florida~~~

Steven Romo says the nurses with fake licenses will "lose their license?" WHAT LICENSE!?! They don't HAVE a license if they obtained it fraudulently. Would you want your who bypassed medical school and residency and bought his medical license doing your surgery? Well guess what. I AM a Registered Nurse. Got MY license the hard way. Four years of school, lots of money spent and existing on canned chicken soup, countless sleepless nights, terrifying clinical (terrified of the professors and making an error!). These people need to be treated just like those that impersonate police officers, physicians, airline pilots etc., are treated. With jail time.

I want to shake the hand of the person in charge of naming it Operation Nightingale, how ironic and comical haha.

These people who were running these "nursing schools" should be ashame of themselves. It is disgusting, disappointing and alarming. I am a nurse from the Philippines, I got my license, education and previous experience evaluated and verified before I got to practice my nursing license in Saudi Arabia and now, in Canada.

This is why the emergency room is crowed and waiting over 3 hours watching them come up with the next getaway tihhhh

I've heard of false claims on resumes in other fields, but could not fathom anything like this.

Didn’t they still have to take the standardized Nurse board exam? You can’t get a license without having passed the test?

Well at least we solved the mystery of Nurses thinking Covid was fake. They weren't even nurses lol

What The Florida !?

Horrible.

I am a FNP-C and was a RN for 10 years prior to gaining my advance degree. This is absolutely horrific. Florida needs to be removed from compact state by the ANA until they get their act together. That state has been a mess for decades. This should never have happened. The state I hold my license is so strict, makes me wonder what is happening in Florida.

When people say "As a doctor/nurse" on the internet, this is probably where they got their degree from.

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.

How the heck did this happen in the first place??? Someone's not doing their job, and should be held accountable. JAIL TIME.

It’s not only unfair to nursing students who are studying and working hard to meet those requirements but it’s a safety issue. I pray no one looses a love one to these acts of greed. Hopefully everyone involve have their license revoked.

Funny how they all pass those state exams. I think it’s reflecting back on a lot of these college and universities that take your money and at the end of the day you’ve not learned anything.

please review all nursing schools in Florida this is scary!

It's the "could lose their license" that's puzzling me.

If the degree is fake losing their license doesn't matter because is fake . Lol

This is really horrific. How many people have died because of these people, the ones issuing the license AND the ones using said license

How did they pass their boards? I busted my butt in school to get my license. This is scary and putting patients at high risk.

What about these DOCTORS NOT TAKING THEY'RE EXAMS AND GAINING LICENSE..

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.

The harm was done when they lied for their degree! Don’t say no harm was done they are not legally licensed!

The question still stands…How in the heck did they pass boards? It one of the most difficult exams to pass. ESPECIALLY if you’re never completed nursing school. We studied and cried from 2-4 years to pass that test depending on the program. How did they pass!?

There are two legal short cuts in earning the right to take the nursing exam. One is a two year associate degree in nursing and the second is earning a diploma from a hospital’s nursing program. How much more of a shortcut did these cheaters want? I have a BSN degree (4 year degree) from a university and it was tough!

Greedy and corrupt are all over regardless of nationality!

How did they think of getting away, this isn’t even the half of hundreds of thousands.

It's very important that a lot of people are talking about the patients and their safety. What's also important is that all the money stolen or received in paychecks through these fake nursing diplomas must be refunded and these fake nurses be prosecuted.

Every second that they delayed assessing a stroke or improperly titrating any cardiac drip wow that’s blood on their hands.

This is so sad and frustrating at the same time. I’m currently in nursing school and all the sleepless nights, tears, stress, anxiety, weight gain/loss I’ve obtained so far during nursing school to try and really understand the material bc I will have ppl’s lives in my hands to see that there’s been ppl out there who bought their degree & cheated their way out. I just cannot fathom that ppl would do that. I hope they’re able to track every single one of them and get to see their practice history

How this is possible, this is beyond incredible. For money people do whatever. Is time to no trust in anybody and start challenging the systems around us, and ask the why’s?

Such a shame. I worked my butt off for my nursing degree. So much goes into nursing, idk why anyone would even want to buy a fake degree.

How can they loose something that was never there's.None of them earned them

The real issue is the fact that some passed the nursing exam. So was the exam rigged also? This is a very interesting story!

I'm an accountant. I spent 4 years in undergrad and 2 years in Masters just to be able to sit for a 4 part exam, each 4 hours each! I studied for 8 months straight, 2 hours a day, EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Got my CPA license. Boy, was it a long and grueling journey, but I did it.

Wow! I think I've met several of these "nurses"

The people who selling them should be in jail its worse than attempted murder

Very disturbing

I wonder how can they pass the licensure (NCLEX) test if they just bought their diplomas? I don’t think they will pass the test if these people didn’t attend nursing school. This needs to be investigated thoroughly.

Wait so 2300 nurses faked their education and no one has been harmed by their inexperience? What's the real story here

💔 *how many patients they handled already ... patients' safety & life also put in "shortcuts"* 💔💔💔

Each nurses need to be reviewed!

Every one of them deserves jail time and a fine! When I think back on how hard I had to work to get my nursing degrees it ticks me off that there are imposters out here endangering the public! Lock them up!!!!

So the nurses knew the school was handing out fake diplomas? Or did the school basically act like they were accredited?

Go to a nursing school college. Quit half assing your education for a job you don't qualify for.

$15,000 for a fake degree, when all you have to do is use that money to go and study to receive a real degree!

Of course they were in Florida!

Such a shame that a "nurse" would actually think its ok to purchase a fake degree and enter the medical field.

This is disgusting

I'm a bonafide nurse. Diploma doesn't help you pass the BOARDS.. I couldn't have passed the boards without the education and neither could anyone else. A diploma doesn't help you. EVEN people who do the program flunked

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.

all of these nurses need to be found and charged. it will taint nursing until it does.

Why do they keep calling them Professionals when they're Fakes and Dangerous to the Public.

So wait, these people took and passed the NCLEX? Like they had to know something, it’s not like just anyone can go and pass that kind of test!

Are they Vaxed.

Horrible. What I don't understand though, is how do they pass boards? Even with a degree, you have to pass boards to be licensed. And that is one hard exam.

What kind of person would be able to walk into a hospital and fake being a nurse?

Great, just who I want working on me!

As a certified teacher and administrator, who had to go through what was an unreasonable amount of education and training for my credentials, this is infuriating. Perhaps DeSantis should pay more attention to colleges in his state.

🙋🏾‍♂️ Find every one of them immediately!

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 😕

This is unbelievable and unacceptable… I studied 4 years for my bachelor’s in nursing, and have been a nurse here in the US since 1996.. I work hard every single day. I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice!

Floriduh 🇺🇸

The crazy thing is how those “nurses” passed the boards? Is it that easy to pass? Is the NCLEX that easy?

Finally, now crack down on the false degrees in California.

The thing is, that they need all the nurses that they can get right now

I worked with many staff coming from the Phillipines and Nepal with Nursing qualifications on file. After asking literally simple medical questions to a few of them during tea breaks I realised they must have obtained fake qualifications. From time to time I had to access staff files and I come across their interview notes. I saw that their overseas school / employers where never called for a background checks. Their understanding of English was fantastic, so it was not a langauge barrier at all. So not just USA, it happens here in Australia also. With shortages of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes it happens.

This took that long to discover it was FAKE? What a sloppy job.

They should take them out of service asap. This is a public risk

This is why I don’t trust nurses.. they’ve always been sketchy to me.. including my own mother.