Posted on 08/09/2022 7:58:44 AM PDT by DFG
The traveling ICU nurse who killed six people in a horror crash in Los Angeles on Thursday after plowing her Mercedes 90mph through a busy intersection has a 'profound' history of mental illness and has been involved in 13 prior crashes, but was still somehow subcontracted to work in a hospital and allowed to drive.
Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, is in custody on six murder charges as a result of Thursday's crash.
Among those she killed was pregnant Asherey Ryan, 23, her one-year-old son Alonzo and Reynold Lester, the father of Asherey's unborn baby, who also died.
On Tuesday, Craig Pitchford was named as another victim. Two other female victims remain unidentified.
Linton is from Houston, Texas, and was in Los Angeles working as a contractor at the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Hospital.
She was working for the nursing contractor group AMN Healthcare, which she joined in October 2020.
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Not very informative.
Another massacre by someone who is mentally-ill.
I asked the question in the title, and then I saw her picture. NOW it all makes sense.
Hospitals need patients and she was just helping out.
You have to wonder where these people come from. Nobody would write a fictional book where a character had 13 prior convictions/instances.
There’s another bond hearing on Monday the 15th where her lawyers will attempt to get that reduced. I’ll be interested to see how this case proceeds. There’s already talk of a long history of mental illness, which begs the question, how did she ever get to be an ICU nurse? Also 13 previous car accidents, how did she keep her driver’s license? Many questions here.
have you ever watched that horders show? A LOT of those people who live in MOUNTAINS of garbage are NURSES!!!
it’s no wonder hospitals are filled with drug resistant germs! the nurses live in garbage!
she has a “get out of responsibility” trump card....... melanocyte edition.
I am a retired nurse. Once you get your license, no questions are asked about mental status .The only way a nursing board finds out that a nurse is mentally ill is if someone reports it, like a coworker. An arrest record can be discovered if you are a traveler working in a different state ( applying for a first time license in that state)because usually they will do a criminal record search. But that only works initially, once you have your license they don’t check.
My daughter graduated college with a nursing degree specializing in the NICU ward 4 years ago. She’s an RN that has offers thrown her way every week or so by the traveling nurse companies because she was looking for another position a few months ago.
Some of the $$ numbers bandied around with the benefits thrown in were quite impressive, more than her old man makes now which makes me VERY happy. If it wasn’t for being married and having a 2 and 1 year old she would have jumped at some of them.
I actually wish she would TBH, she wanted to make a difference so she left the premier children’s hospital in Indy and went with a smaller group that is located on the east side of the city.
The stories of the babies born by horribly diabetic women is bad, but the amount of babies born with drug dependencies, especially heroin, is what really breaks your heart, going through withdraw just after their first breath of air.
Had she used an AR to do extract the exact same outcome though, oh man would the press be treating that differently...
Because she is black
I don't know about "behind the wheel" - but the ICU was undoubtedly short-staffed.
One of my nurses during the 2 weeks and change of IICU was a traveling contract type. I vaguely remember talking about the traveling.
She was super nice and out of all the ones that took care of me, hers is the only name I can remember. Everybody was great at the hospital.
My home nurse afterwards for wound vac support was way better than I could have hand picked.
Mainly because the commie soros DA is facing a recall election...otherwise he’d let her go
Hopefully.
Stephen King’s book “Misery” comes close. She was a suspect in many deaths at the hospitals she worked at and was fired but not charged. IIRC
nurse with mental health issues. Oh, goody.
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