A decade ago, I made the decision to return to nursing school. I needed a job that would allow me to spend more time with my boys, who were nine, seven, and three years old at the time, and one that would support us as I was going through a divorce. Nursing seemed like the wise choice, so I enrolled in a two-year accelerated program with guaranteed clinicals. For the next two years, I worked odd jobs — driving for Uber and Lyft, a home health aid stint, and whatever else I could find — to pay the bills and study.
And study I did. We had very high standards to meet in each of our classes, including periodic tests on topics very important to nursing, such as medication math. Our medication math exams required a 100 percent score. Even one wrong answer meant you failed the entire test. If we failed those exams after three attempts, we failed our class and had to retake it. The stakes were high, as they should be.
When all that was done, when we graduated and before we got our first real jobs, we had to take the NCLEX, the state's nursing exam that checked our learning and our professionalism. It was the last step to getting our licenses.
Nurses spend far more time with patients than doctors do, and nurses are tasked with carrying out orders from doctors, including the administration of medications that — if dosed or given improperly — could lead to patient harm or even death. Nurses often catch mistakes that doctors make, as I did when a doctor prescribed a medication a patient was allergic to. Studies show nurses spend about 33 percent of their shift in direct contact with patients, while doctors spend 13 to 18 percent.
However, because we cannot seem to have nice things in this country, and because rigorous safety and professional standards have been sacrificed on the altar of DEI and illegal immigration, we've learned that more than 7,600 fake nursing degrees were handed out for nursing jobs across the United States.
This is part of an investigation called Operation Nightingale, and the news should alarm us all.
🚨🚨 CAUGHT: Over 7,600 fake diplomas were distributed for NURSING JOBS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!
— Neon White Rabbit (@RedPillRabbit) April 19, 2026
The investigation involved many international nursing candidates, including those from INDIA and HAITI who purchased these credentials to work in the U.S.
Aspiring nurses bought…
Here's more from a September 2025 report from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General:
In the latest development of Operation Nightingale—a scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses—fraud-related charges have been filed against 12 defendants for their roles in selling fraudulent nursing diplomas and transcripts. In Phase I of Operation Nightingale, 30 defendants were charged and convicted by plea or at trial in 2023. According to court records, the defendants conspired to sell false nursing credentials—diplomas and transcripts fraudulently obtained from Florida-based nursing schools—to aspiring Registered Nurse (RN) and Licensed Nurse Practioner/Vocational Nurse (LPN/VN) candidates. Purchasers of the bogus documents used them to qualify for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX), commonly known as the nursing board exam. Candidates who passed the exam became eligible for licensure in various states, and once licensed, obtained employment as nurses across the United States.
The scheme involved selling fake degrees and transcripts, thereby allowing recipients of the fake documents to sit for board exams. We can safely conclude that they probably gamed the system to pass the exams, too, because it's unlikely anyone would pass without the foundational nursing education.
This is part of a bigger problem with wokeness, DEI, and failing standards in healthcare. At several medical schools, the racial and gender makeup of the student body often trumps a student's ability to identify human anatomy correctly or diagnose the symptoms of sepsis accurately. That one hits close to home for me. My ex-husband died from staph-induced sepsis in 2024, and that was with a competent doctor's diagnosis. Despite that, the infection was too much for his body to handle. Now imagine what happens when you have doctors who don't even know how to test for sepsis. When I was a practicing nurse, I kept a list of the signs of sepsis on my clipboard and committed them to memory so I could catch them early and save my patient's life.
In one instance of wokeness, kidney doctors removed race considerations from a kidney transplant list, which bumped critically ill White patients down the list while elevating Black patients who were not critically ill up the list. Why? Black and White patients have different estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR). This number indicates how quickly the kidneys remove excess creatinine (a waste product produced by the muscles) from the body. Blacks have higher serum creatinine levels than Whites at the same level of kidney function. Removing the race from the list meant Black patients with less severe kidney disease got transplants before Whites who were sicker. Oddly enough, I've never been able to confirm deaths from this, and I can only assume the reasons why that info isn't public.
A 2016 report in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said that there are maybe 250,000 medical error-related deaths in the U.S. While that number is not an official category recognized by the CDC, and critics say it includes complications or system errors that are hard to classify, it would make medical errors the third-leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. That was a decade ago, before the woke flood hit our medical schools. Imagine what it's like now.
We have a serious problem in our healthcare system, and it has nothing to do with insurance companies or Republicans. The real looming healthcare crisis has everything to do with a lowering of standards and a push to put demographics and ideology ahead of competence. This puts lives at risk, and people will die from this. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some already have. When you fill hospitals and clinics with uneducated, fraudulent nurses (or DEI-hired docs), they will not be able to care for patients safely or adequately. To fix this, we must not only expose the bad actors, but return to a rigorous, consistent standard for all nursing and medical schools, one that focuses on merit and outcomes rather than checking ideological boxes.