1,500 Pittsburgh Nurses Ratify a New Contract, Averting a Strike at Allegheny General
Nine days after voting 99% to authorize a strike, Allegheny General nurses ratified a deal with roughly $35 million in raises and staffing levels tied to patient volume.
Oct 30, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Michigan Woman Worked as a Nurse for 8 Months on a Real Nurse’s Stolen License, the State Says
Prosecutors say Shonda Davis used another woman’s LPN license number to get hired at a Flint home-care agency and treated Medicaid patients for months before anyone caught it.
Oct 29, 2026 Licensing & DisciplineShe Stole Drugs From Patients in Four States Over 23 Years. Iowa Just Gave Her Nursing License Back.
Krystal Bauer surrendered her Iowa license twice and lost her privileges in three other states. The board's answer this month: probation and drug screening, again.
Oct 28, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Nurse Is Among Seven People Indicted in a $2 Million Rhode Island Medicaid Fraud Case
Prosecutors say the assistant director of nursing helped backdate training records at a Providence health agency accused of billing Medicaid for care that was overstated or never given.
Oct 26, 2026 Licensing & DisciplineIowa Revokes a Nurse’s License After She Left a Bag of Used Needles on a Medication Cart
A colleague was stuck by a needle inside the bag. Ranae Fallis told investigators she had been using cocaine on and off since 2021.
Oct 26, 2026 Labor & Workplace1,500 Pittsburgh Nurses Vote 99% to Authorize a Strike as Their Contract Clock Runs Out
Allegheny General Hospital nurses extended their contract to keep negotiating, then voted almost unanimously to walk out if the hospital doesn't change course on staffing, retirement and health costs.
Oct 25, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsHospital Appeals After Nurse It Had Arrested Wins $7.5 Million Verdict
A federal jury found HCA-HealthOne discriminated against and fired ICU nurse DonQuenick Joppy in retaliation after she was criminally charged, then cleared, over a patient's death.
Oct 25, 2026 Crime & CourtsFormer Detroit Nurse Sentenced to 10–15 Years for Sexually Assaulting a Patient
A Wayne County judge called him “a predator of the worst kind.” Twenty-six women have accused him; seven more criminal cases are still pending.
Oct 24, 2026 Crime & CourtsHospital Aide Convicted of Raping a Psychiatric Patient Who Couldn’t Consent
A jury took about 15 minutes to convict an overnight aide at a New York psychiatric unit. DNA evidence tied him to the assault.
Oct 24, 2026 Crime & CourtsTrial of Two Sydney Nurses in Viral “Menacing” Video Delayed Again
A constitutional challenge pushed the trial of two former Bankstown Hospital nurses, charged over a recorded conversation about Israeli patients, back once again.
Oct 23, 2026 Crime & CourtsPatient Charged With Punching Two Nurses at a Long Island Hospital
Nassau County police say a 36-year-old patient struck two nurses with a closed fist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. He faces two counts of second-degree assault.
Oct 23, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsJury Hits NY Nursing Home With $6.8 Million Verdict Over Years of Understaffing
A Dutchess County jury found Sapphire Nursing at Wappingers understaffed every day for three years straight — and held four owners personally liable.
Oct 22, 2026 Lawsuits & Settlements575 Filipino Nurses Get $1.85 Million Settlement Over “Stay-or-Pay” Contracts
A New Jersey court approved the settlement after nurses said a staffing agency's contracts charged tens of thousands of dollars to quit early.
Oct 22, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsShe Reported Being Assaulted at Work. She Says Her Hospital Kept Him on Staff for Months.
A Taunton State Hospital nurse says a coworker exposed himself to her in a linen closet during a break, then stayed on the payroll for nine months while two coworkers retaliated against her.
Oct 20, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Houston-Area School Nurse Is Accused of Swapping Kids’ ADHD Pills for Aleve
A Harris County grand jury indicted former Klein ISD nurse Rachel Hoffman on felony theft and drug-fraud charges. Prosecutors say she gave elementary students placebos and kept their real ADHD medication.
Oct 19, 2026 Crime & CourtsTraveling Nurse Charged With Taking Oxycodone Meant for Vermont Nursing Home Patients
Vermont prosecutors say traveling nurse Anneka Brooks diverted oxycodone meant for patients at a Northeast Kingdom nursing home. She has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts.
Oct 19, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Prison Nurse Pleaded Guilty Over a Relationship With a Convicted Killer Held in Her Jail
Stephanie Adair kept in touch with an inmate previously convicted of manslaughter through an illicit phone at HMP Wandsworth. The relationship reportedly came to light after he listed her address on his own court paperwork.
Oct 17, 2026 Crime & CourtsFlorida ICU Nurse Charged With Stealing Fentanyl From a Critically Ill Patient’s IV
Leslie Ann Pope, 54, faces three felonies after police say a family member watched her draw fentanyl from a patient’s IV — and surveillance video caught her coming back the next day.
Oct 16, 2026 Licensing & DisciplineA Nurse Visited Her Patient in Prison 67 Times. Their Relationship Surfaced Only After He Died.
A tribunal found a New Zealand mental-health nurse guilty of misconduct over a relationship with a man she once treated in prison — a boundary violation that reached regulators only after he died.
Oct 8, 2026 Crime & CourtsUK Custody Nurse Goes on Trial for Manslaughter Over a Man's Death in Police Custody
Prosecutors say Sean Cregg assumed William Cameron was faking unconsciousness and barely examined him before Cameron died in hospital hours later.
Oct 6, 2026 Crime & CourtsFake Nurse's Sentencing Delayed a 6th Time
Lisa Driscoll pleaded guilty to using stolen nursing credentials to work in Newfoundland care homes. More than a year later, a court still hasn't sentenced her.
Oct 5, 2026 Crime & CourtsWashington Nurse Charged With Assaulting 4 Patients — Hospital Let Him Work 6 More Months
Stephen Odingo, 61, faces four felony counts of indecent liberties. Prosecutors say EvergreenHealth Monroe didn't suspend him until two more patients came forward.
Oct 4, 2026 Crime & CourtsMichigan Nurse Charged After Admitting She Helped an ICE Detainee Escape From Her Hospital
Chloe Freeman allegedly pulled a man's IV and walked him to the ambulance bay, then told investigators she "knew she was going to set him free." He hasn't been found since.
Oct 3, 2026 Crime & CourtsJury Convicts Former Travel Nurse of Murder in 130-MPH Crash That Killed Six, Including an Infant and an Unborn Child
Nicole Linton was driving roughly 130 mph when she ran a red light in Windsor Hills, killing a pregnant woman, her boyfriend, their baby, her unborn child, and two other women.
Oct 3, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Baltimore Nurse Stole Morphine Meant for a 10-Year-Old Recovering From Heart Surgery
Kaitlyn Chalmers documented a dose she never gave a child recovering from open-heart surgery, then refused a drug test. She's now barred from treating kids.
Oct 2, 2026 Crime & CourtsShe Told Cosmetic-Surgery Patients She Was a Licensed Nurse. Miami-Dade Says She Never Was.
Manouchka Jean-Noel advertised post-op recovery care on Instagram since 2018. An undercover deputy says she quoted $3,110 and claimed licenses she never had.
Oct 2, 2026 Crime & CourtsShe Labeled the IV Bag “Sodium Bicarbonate.” It Was Potassium Chloride. A Child Died.
A Riga children's hospital nurse mislabeled an infusion bag meant for a young cancer patient. This week, a court sentenced her to prison and banned her from practicing for four years.
Oct 1, 2026 Crime & CourtsMan Charged With Strangling an ER Nurse With Her Own Stethoscope
Police say Christopher Titus crossed a nurse's own stethoscope over her throat inside an Auburn, NY emergency room. He's now facing three felony charges.
Oct 1, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Caregiver With a Nursing Past Got Her Dying Patient’s House for $5
Records show Sarah Smalls once held an active nurse practitioner license under a maiden name. As her patient's caregiver, she had his Conway, SC home deeded to her for $5 weeks before he died.
Sep 29, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Nurse Was Charged With Assault After Trying to Perform an “Exorcism” on a Nursing Home Patient
A grand jury says agency nurse Octavia Robinson spent two hours in a Gracedale resident's room insisting the woman had demons inside her. The resident died months later.
Sep 29, 2026 Crime & CourtsDetroit Nurse Convicted of Sexually Assaulting a Patient — Seven More Trials Still to Come
A Wayne County jury convicted former Sinai-Grace nurse Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios of assaulting a patient. He's accused of 26 victims, with seven more trials pending.
Sep 28, 2026 Crime & CourtsA Maine School Nurse Was Arrested for OUI on a School Day — Months After a Mother’s Strangling Complaint
Wiscasset police charged school nurse Sommer Maybee Harding with OUI mid-shift, four months after a mother said her son was strangled in a class Harding was covering.
Sep 28, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsNurse Killed Walking to Her Car Is Still Fighting Her Hospital in Court
A grand jury charged Ada Doss's killer with capital murder. Four months later, her husband's wrongful-death lawsuit against DCH Regional Medical Center is still moving forward.
Sep 27, 2026 Crime & CourtsNew Jersey Nurse Surrenders Her License After Pepper-Spraying a Dementia Patient
Lisa Erikson admitted she used her own pepper spray on an elderly dementia patient twice, then left him on the floor. She'll surrender her nursing license at sentencing.
Sep 27, 2026 Crime & CourtsFort Myers Nurse Sentenced to 30 Months for Muting a Sick Child’s Oxygen Alarm 100 Times
A Lee County judge sentenced Sharlene Pflugrad to 30 months in prison and took her nursing license after video showed her silencing a medically fragile child's oxygen alarm through the night.
Sep 26, 2026 Labor & WorkplaceCentral Maine Medical Center Nurses Vote 204-21 to Unionize After Hospital Fired 20 of Them
About 290 CMMC nurses voted overwhelmingly to unionize three weeks after Prime Healthcare fired 15 nurses and suspended five more organizing the effort.
Sep 26, 2026 Crime & CourtsMichigan NICU Nurse Charged With Child Abuse After Preemie’s Fractures Found Overnight
A Michigan grand jury charged former NICU nurse Kieran Ansley with child abuse after a 4-month-old preemie was found with fractures and bruising overnight.
Sep 25, 2026 Labor & WorkplaceBrigham Nurses Vote 93% to Authorize an Indefinite Strike — the Biggest Margin in State History
4,000 Brigham and Women's nurses voted 2,986 to 215 to authorize an open-ended strike against Mass General Brigham, which just posted a $2.39 billion profit.
Sep 25, 2026 Crime & CourtsBishopville Nurse Charged With Stealing Pain Pills From Five Nursing Home Residents
South Carolina's attorney general says nurse Joanne Claus used fraud to obtain hydrocodone from five residents at a Camden nursing home over three months.
Sep 24, 2026 Crime & CourtsFairmont Nurse Practitioner Charged With Running a Fake Equipment-Loan Scheme
Marion County deputies say family nurse practitioner Traci Tannehill talked people into personal loans for medical equipment she never bought, then never repaid them.
Sep 24, 2026 Crime & CourtsTulsa Nurse Charged With Rape After ER Patient Comes Forward — Police Say There May Be More Victims
A Tulsa County grand jury charged nurse James Beaver with rape by instrumentation after a patient's assault exam matched him. Police are asking other possible victims to come forward.
Sep 23, 2026 Lawsuits & Settlements20 Maine Nurses Fired or Suspended Days Before a Union Vote
Central Maine Medical Center's nurses filed to unionize in August. Three weeks later, about 20 of them are off the schedule — and the hospital and the union can't agree on why.
Sep 22, 2026 Crime & CourtsTrial Delayed Again for the Nurse Accused of Swapping Patients' Fentanyl for Tap Water
Two years after her indictment, the Oregon ICU nurse accused of causing 16 patient deaths still hasn't faced a jury — a fight over the hospital's own infection records just delayed it again.
Sep 21, 2026 Crime & CourtsArizona Nurse Practitioner Sentenced to 14 Years for $69 Million Medicaid Fraud
Rita Ntusa Anagho's addiction-treatment clinic billed AHCCCS $69 million in under a year — prosecutors say she targeted Native American patients because their plan paid more.
Sep 21, 2026 Crime & CourtsNursing Home Nurse Charged With Manslaughter After Choking Death
New York's AG says a nurse and two colleagues watched a resident choke at dinner and did nothing. More than a year later, all three face felony charges.
Sep 20, 2026 Crime & CourtsFlorida Nursing-School Operator Sentenced to 7+ Years in Diploma-Mill Case Tied to a Patient's Death
Carleen Noreus sold nearly 3,000 fake nursing diplomas. A judge gave her 87 months — and for the first time, prosecutors detailed how one of her diplomas reached a hospital floor before a patient died.
Sep 19, 2026 Crime & CourtsFormer Bristol Regional Nurse Indicted After Allegedly Taking Patients' Oxycodone
Tennessee investigators say registered nurse Heather Nicole Leonard took Oxycodone tablets meant for patients in her care. The hospital fired her; a grand jury has now indicted her.
Sep 19, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsMiami ER Nurse Alleges Retaliation After Viral Video of Patient Attack
Weeks after video showed her being punched while shielding a colleague, a Jackson Memorial trauma nurse says she was transferred and sidelined for speaking out. The hospital disputes it.
Sep 18, 2026 Crime & CourtsMaryland Nurse Pleads Guilty in $14 Million Scheme to Defraud D.C. Medicaid
Vera Nyiawung admitted to conspiring to bill D.C. Medicaid for youth mental health sessions that were padded or never delivered — her share alone topped $550,000.
Sep 18, 2026 Crime & CourtsRetired Nurse Charged With Juror Intimidation in the Lindsay Clancy Trial
While the Clancy jury deliberated, state police arrested a retired RN outside the courthouse — accused of secretly filming jurors as they left.
Sep 8, 2026 Licensing & DisciplineA Second Iowa Prison Nurse Is Sanctioned After an Inmate Vomited Blood for a Week, Then Died
Iowa's nursing board has now sanctioned two prison nurses over an inmate's undiagnosed death. A wrongful-death trial is set for 2027.
Sep 8, 2026 Crime & CourtsMistrial Declared in Lindsay Clancy Murder Case
A Plymouth County jury deadlocked after seven days and 38 hours. The DA now has until September 29 to decide whether to retry the former L&D nurse.
Sep 5, 2026 Crime & CourtsNurse Indicted for Murder After Allegedly Tampering With a Patient's IV
Prosecutors in Japan say Miyuki Furukawa injected feces into a patient's IV line — and had searched online beforehand whether it could kill him.
Sep 5, 2026 Crime & CourtsThree Nurses Charged After a Dialysis Patient Died
Court records say a Fort Pierce nursing home patient went eight days without his ordered dialysis. Prosecutors say three nurses documented the order — and never made sure it happened.
Aug 31, 2026 Crime & CourtsNurse Anesthetist Indicted for Swapping Fentanyl Vials for Water
A federal grand jury says Jackeline Correa-Vázquez drained fentanyl from vials meant for patient care and refilled them to hide the theft — roughly 120 vials over five months.
Aug 31, 2026 Lawsuits & SettlementsFired Nurse's Whistleblower Case Forces Texas Children's Hospital to Pay $10 Million
Vanessa Sivadge alleged the hospital used inaccurate billing codes for pediatric gender-transition care — the hospital is now paying $10 million and firing five doctors.
Aug 5, 2026 Crime & CourtsNurse Avoids Prison After Patient Found Dead From Hypothermia
An 84-year-old nursing home resident was missing for nine hours before she was found dead outside. Her nurse pleaded guilty — and got no prison time.
Aug 25, 2026 Crime & CourtsShe Attacked Hospital Staff Three Times in 11 Weeks
A grand jury indicted Alyna Lindenau after a third attack on F.F. Thompson Hospital staff, reigniting the push for New York's PROTECT Act.
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