Nursing Imposters

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I was browsing the Texas Board of Nursing site today out of curiosity. Well, somehow in all of my reading, I came across the imposter alert section for the last ten years. Don't get me wrong, it was definitely scary that these people were able to get away with what they did for quite some time but some of the scenarios were downright horrifying. One woman managed to work as a school nurse for TEN YEARS posing as a registered nurse. How does one manage to slip through the cracks like that? How does an otherwise respectable school district, hospital, nursing home, staffing agency or institution let something like this occur? Call me naive but I just never imagined people doing such a thing. You could KILL someone because you don't have the education, knowledge, and licensing to back you up. How absolutely terrifying.

Do any of you have any stories similar to the one I mentioned? Have you worked with someone who was an imposter or know of someone who did this?

It strikes me as weird you do that sort of thing. What did you gain by searching? Maybe they were licensed in a different state.

I am not being critical nor am I attacking you. I know intent is hard to read online, so I am just being clear about my intent.

She/he obviously must have a lot of free time while working in order to do that.

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She/he obviously must have a lot of free time while working in order to do that.

I was thinking that, too.

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