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Healthcare company that hired 'mentally ill' ICU nurse for job in L.A. where she killed six people in horror crash REFUSES to say how she was vetted: Nurse held jobs in SIX hospitals in just two years despite her 'profound' problems
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 9, 2022 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 08/09/2022 8:12:42 PM PDT by Morgana

The company which farmed out an ICU nurse with her own 'profound' mental health problems is refusing to comment on how she was vetted for the job, as she is charged with murdering six people in a horror car crash last week.

Nicole Linton, 37, is in custody in California on six murder charges for killing a pregnant woman, her boyfriend, the woman's one-year-old son, a man and two other women on August 4.

Linton inexplicably drove her Mercedes straight into traffic, slicing one of the victims' cars in half and sending the baby in his car-seat flying into the air, at terrifying speed.

Her motive remains unclear but her attorney told a judge yesterday she has a 'profound history' of mental health problems which should have stopped her from getting behind the wheel of a car - let alone inside an ICU facility to treat critically ill patients.

Linton was working at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center, but she'd been sent there by AMN Healthcare, a travel nursing company that farms out skilled contractors to where they are most needed.

It became a heavily relied-upon model during the COVID-19 pandemic, when healthcare professionals in the hardest-hit cities were in short supply.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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With all the HIPPA laws around how would the DM or any hospital know about this nurses mental health problems?
1 posted on 08/09/2022 8:12:42 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Check box, affirmative action hire. That’s what matters these days.


2 posted on 08/09/2022 8:14:51 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Morgana

Wonder how many people died under her care?


3 posted on 08/09/2022 8:15:16 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Noumenon

“Check box, affirmative action hire. That’s what matters these days.”

Exactly. They had a quota to fill, and she fit right in.


4 posted on 08/09/2022 8:16:20 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Morgana

This is what traveling nurses do go from one hospital for a few months to another. Make big bucks.


5 posted on 08/09/2022 8:17:22 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: Noumenon

Ain’t diversity amazing?

L


6 posted on 08/09/2022 8:18:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Morgana

How is it that a foreign publication can do a batter job at reporting than local media? It is obvious why.


7 posted on 08/09/2022 8:19:43 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Lurker

Wasn’t it Michael Savage who said the “diversity” is a combination of division and perversity? Yeah.


8 posted on 08/09/2022 8:19:56 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Deaf Smith

“Wonder how many people died under her care?”

That was my next question.


9 posted on 08/09/2022 8:20:29 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Noumenon

Funny thing is I know a woman who is a traveling nurse. She makes a ton of money working on 60 or 90 day contracts. She’s extremely competent and is in high demand.

How this…person…managed to land a job like this is a subject for discussion.

L


10 posted on 08/09/2022 8:23:03 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Fungi

“How is it that a foreign publication can do a batter job at reporting than local media?”

****

I’ve been on FR since the Iraq War. There were only 2 PUBLICATIONS who reported the war fairly and accurately (unlike the MSM).

Daily Mail and UK TELEGRAPH. Every wondered why we had to rely on British publications to report the war when the MSM was happily reporting how many US soldiers died from an IED?


11 posted on 08/09/2022 8:24:20 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: Morgana

I worked for a background screening company and community colleges and colleges were clients. Nurses, medical staff (home health care especially) dental staff were subject to very intensive screening. You wouldn’t believe how many felons tried to slip through the cracks.

A former neighbor’s MIL was a traveling nurse and was ‘rerouted’ many, many times. She would burn bridges wherever she went so her company would just send her somewhere else.


12 posted on 08/09/2022 8:28:47 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Lurker

How? It’s the pervasive and ongoing devaluation of anything that contributes to character and competence. You can’t rule a free, educated and competent people. Looks like we’re on the edge of the Time of the Settling of Accounts. Prepare to make large holes in things.


13 posted on 08/09/2022 8:29:02 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Morgana

She was obviously one of the ones willing to take the death jab.


14 posted on 08/09/2022 8:37:52 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Morgana

She’s black. They couldn’t fire her no matter what. She could have been committing race-based murders and abuse, and they would still be afraid to fire her.

Think about it: Who wants to fire a crazy woman in this racially charged climate? I wouldn’t want to deal with it, but then again, I’m not a coward.


15 posted on 08/09/2022 8:45:12 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Morgana

Ironic that I go to this Kaiser


16 posted on 08/09/2022 8:49:28 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Morgana

“With all the HIPPA laws around how would the DM or any hospital know about this nurses mental health problems?”

“Her attorney told a judge yesterday she has a ‘profound history’ of mental health problems...”

That’s how the DM would know.


17 posted on 08/09/2022 8:49:41 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Noumenon

Sadly, I believe you’re right.

L


18 posted on 08/09/2022 8:59:12 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Morgana

When jobs go vacant, standards get lowered and bad people get hired.


19 posted on 08/09/2022 9:27:20 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Lurker

Dieversity.


20 posted on 08/09/2022 9:29:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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