Daily News | Local nurses lost in ‘outrageous scheme’ | Morning Newsletter
“We did everything we were supposed to do. I went to school. I did the work.”
That’s Ramatu Ali. Led by the promise of a program to become a higher-skill, better-paid registered nurse, she took trips to Florida and back, spent hours doing online learning and hands-on clinical training, and spent up to $14,000 on her education.It turned out to be too good to be true. Late last year, her nursing license was voided by authorities in Delaware, along with at least 34 nurses who graduated from sham schools.Pennsylvania’s Board of Nursing and others across the U.S.
Dubbed “Operation Nightingale,” the ongoing federal investigation has resulted in criminal indictments of 27 school operators and recruiters, including two from South Jersey.Ali is among more than 7,600 students who received degrees from schools in Florida that operated as nursing diploma mills. To date, there have been no reports of patient harm.
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