Yeah but all she has to do is show it is routine and she'll get $$$$$. The hospital isn't going to let someone die because a technician can't remember a userid/password. Borrowing userid/passwords is fairly common in the functional world. Especially if it took long periods to reset passwords.
From the article:
she was terminated on Wednesday because she had given her log-in information to a worker whose Internet privileges had been taken away.
Seems the leaking worker didn't have a "memory" problem.
In my "functional world", you get a couple of infractions before you get fired. If you give somebody your login and password on a first offense, you have to read and sign a statement, take supplemental training, and give a training lecture to the office on why it is very bad to give your username and PW to somebody else.