Thousands of nurses and nursing students nationwide are receiving notices that their nursing education may have been fraudulent.
National education attorney advisor Joseph Lento and the Lento Law Firm's Defense Team are ready to represent you if you have already been notified or you expect to receive notice. Call 888.535.3686 or use this online form to speak with an attorney now.
The notices, triggered by the Department of Health & Human Services' Operation Nightingale enforcement action against several now-closed Florida nursing schools, threaten the nurses' education, licensure, and employment. The schools reportedly include Siena College, Sacred Heart International Institute, Quisqueya Health Care Academy and Quisqueya School of Nursing (also known as Sunshine Academy), Med-Life Institute WPB, and Palm Beach School of Nursing. Nurses and nursing students, especially African and Haitian immigrants, have received notices from state licensing boards, hospitals, other employers of nurses, and graduate nursing schools.
Nursing Schools Fighting the Alleged Fraud Scheme
Operation Nightingale involved the above closed Florida nursing schools, not your current nursing school. Your current nursing school likely did nothing whatsoever wrong in connection with the alleged fraud scheme. But if your admission to your current graduate or other nursing program depended on your degree or transcript from one of the above closed Florida nursing schools, then your current nursing school will very likely take aggressive steps to ensure the validity of that degree or transcript. To protect the public and its accreditation, your current nursing school must require you and its other students to meet rigorous educational requirements, including any prior nursing education that qualifies you for your current program. If your school now has cause to suspect fraud in your educational credentials, including things like falsified clinical hours or even matters about which you were not aware, then your school will very likely be notifying you, if it hasn't done so already.
Nursing School Notices to Involved Students
You may have already received your nursing program's notice. Nursing schools are notifying students who earned their associate's degree or completed other coursework at one of the closed Florida nursing schools that they may not enroll for further coursework without first proving the authenticity of their educational credentials. The notices are specifying the necessary proof the students must immediately submit to continue with their nursing education, including specific verifications. The notices are also specifying the procedures the students must follow to avoid nursing student dismissal. In short, these nursing school notices are placing at risk everything the involved students are pursuing in their nursing education and career.
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Gathering the necessary proofs and following the required procedures takes academic administrative skill and experience. Your nursing education and career are worth preserving. National education attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento has helped hundreds of students nationwide successfully defend their education against fraud and other misconduct allegations. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now for the help you need to preserve and pursue your nursing education.
