Woman Working at Hospital Treated 4,500 Patients Without License, Police Say

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 7, 2025, 2:53 p.m. ET | Adeel Hassan

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The 29-year-old forged her documents to work at a Florida hospital, and the discrepancy was noticed only after she was offered a promotion, according to an investigation.

A young woman working at a hospital in Florida drew blood, administered medications and started IV lines, treating about 4,500 individuals over seven months. She did her job so well that she was offered a promotion at the start of this year.

But when the hospital, AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway in Palm Coast, Fla., checked the status of the woman’s nursing license, they discovered that she had an expired certified nursing assistant license, that she had never passed a licensing exam and that she had been using the license number of another nurse with the same first name.

Instead of a promotion, she was fired.

The woman, Autumn Bardisa, 29, was arrested on Tuesday at her Palm Coast home on seven counts of practicing a health care profession without a license and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday. She was wearing her blue medical scrubs.

She was charged with one count for each month in which she fraudulently practiced as a registered nurse, the sheriff’s office said.

Ms. Bardisa is being held in the county jail on a $70,000 bond. It was not clear whether she had a lawyer.

“This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated,” Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. “This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not and violating the trust of patients, their families, AdventHealth and an entire medical community.”

Sheriff Staly said that his office, which conducted an investigation in coordination with AdventHealth and state and federal agencies, had not...

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[JSM_Liberty]

“She did her job so well that she was offered a promotion at the start of this year.”

In other words licenses are not needed to do a good job.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In other words licenses are not needed to do a good job.

Credentialism. Have to buy it from the "education" gatekeepers.

[Tell It Right]

Another photo of her. I confess to probably would have felt better if she just walked into my room.

https://flaglerlive.com/woman-who-posed-as-nurse/

[kiryandil]

I was thinking "fake news", and then I saw it was The Spew Barf Slimes - a whole lot of ifs in the article.

I don't see that she killed anyone.

[metmom]

Terrible headline.

[JSM_Liberty]

John Stossel is good on the subject

https://reason.com/2025/07/30/you-shouldnt-need-a-license-to-talk/

[frank ballenger]

Photo....

Testimony: “None of the men complained after I gave them sponge baths and massages.”

[Glad2bnuts]

Licenses are a legal qualification, so the government and outside agencies can control. Naturopathic Doctors are pushed out, alongside Chiropractors and Nutritionists. Medical Doctors fill all the spots, and all they do is follow whatever the popular treatments and drugs are of the time. Physicians Assistants are usually better at being Dr, that licensed Physicians. They learn and absorb new things, while their bosses prescribe pills, surgery and chemo.

[Gil4]

I concur. But can she fly a plane?

[blackdog]

We had a guy that showed up at our stores window at the paper mill I worked at. He was fantastic. Always there. Always helpful. After a few months of praise, the department head went to HR to get him a promotion. It turns out he wasn't even employed there. He was wanted for rape, assault, and weapons charges. He lived up in the ceiling above the locker room. He grabbed uniforms from the ARA Racks for clean clothes. He showered in the locker room. He would grab leftover food from catering trays from the office staff that left at 5PM. He would snatch lunches from the employee break rooms.

One day a SWAT Team came in and grabbed him. We had no idea. Perfect attendance and perfect performance employee. If it just was an actual employee! He came into the facility through the rail car spur in our receiving department.

[blackdog]

Certified Clinical Social Workers.......

[Glad2bnuts]

After I got DWI in the late 70’s, I drove without a license for 7 years. I even had a job driving a delivery truck 5 days a week, the entire time. When I finally was pulled over, on year 6 and about 11 months, for a road safety check. I got a ticket, but I had a sidekick to drive. We finished the delivery load, came back and handed my boss the ticket. He went with me to court, I explained to the Judge that I did not have the $$$ to pay the SR-22, and to keep it off of my record. I got the DWI in South Dakota, and they didn’t take my license. In WA they would take it. In court, the Judge took my testimony, I pointed out my boss and he asked him a few questions. He said “GET YOUR LICENSE”, and be back in in 10 working days with proof. I did, and he dropped the charges. GOOD Judge, they don’t make them like that anymore.

[shelterguy]

“””Physicians Assistants are usually better at being Dr, that licensed Physicians.”””

I can ditto that from a lot of first hand experience.

[Flag_This]

License? We don’t need no stinking license!

[jacknhoo]

I love good stories like that. There’s good people in world and they instill good in others with their kind acts.

[CaptainK]

I wonder where she leaned to take blood and put in an IV.

[Glad2bnuts]

Good article from the dependable John Stossel in the link.

[shelterguy]

“””I wonder where she leaned to take blood and put in an IV.”””

I’ve seen it done so many times I could do it.

[Glad2bnuts]

Nurses learn to do this by doing it to other Nursing students, and being practice partners. I could easily do it. I have been getting blood draws twice monthly for 8 years, more during chemo. I can tell who is good at it, from watching them do it on me. Most hate me, the good ones love me. I am not quiet when a bad phlebotomist goes after me.

At one time, I stopped the Dr was doing a little procedure, and asked him “DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE F YOU ARE DOING”? The nurses took over, and they were perfect. The Doc tried over 6 times to hit a vein, or artery...whichever was the target.

The Doctor was well credentialled, the Nurses were much more caring and skilled.