Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced it had uncovered a scheme involving the sale of more than 7,600 fake diplomas and transcripts from several now shuttered nursing schools in Florida.
State Boards of Nursing (SBONs) from Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Florida, have launched their investigations into individuals tied to the scheme.
It appears that a Florida-based school sold fake nursing diplomas. The Pennsylvania Board of Nursing is taking steps to revoke the licenses of 18 individuals in connection with the nationwide nursing license scam.
For $17,000, nursing students bought diplomas with no classes or training. Last year, the executive director of Delaware’s board annulled the licenses of 26 nurses who had bought degrees for about $17,000 each.
If this faked diplomas and transcripts scandal is true, it is going to put in jeopardy the licenses of those real nurses who work hard, and legal, to help their patients. Now they will have to prove that their credentials are legit, or face discipline. What a shame.
The top picture was taken at the Health Center where I was working, during the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
