Here are a few of the wildest nurses out there!
9 - Lakiesha Mcghee Nurse Lakiesha Mcghee
waited until she was out of work to commit her crime. Nurse Mcghee found herself at the
J&J Dollar store in Houston County, Georgia, where she liked to play video poker. At first,
it seemed like every other time she had been in there until three gunmen burst
through the door. As soon as they entered the building, one man went into the office,
and another went to take money from Mcghee and the only other customer in there.
Shots rang out, and soon the three men fled the scene. Once they were gone,
Mcghee called 911 to report what happened. This was where the case
took an odd turn. Mcghee went to check the wounds on the clerk, which turned out to be fatal.
She was then seen cutting power to the security system before stealing a bunch of lottery tickets.
Homicide detectives reviewing footage from the store watched her do it and promptly arrested her.
She was charged with one count of theft and one count of tampering with evidence. It's alarming
how quickly Mcghee turned from a victim to a criminal when the opportunity presented itself.
8 - Julie Devuono & Melissa Urraro
Two New York nurses named Julie Devuono and Melissa Urraro had their entire bootleg vaccine
card operation exposed in early 2022. The ladies made over a million dollars just by
selling the cards to customers that didn't want to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Like the prohibition runners back in the day, the nurses found a way to distribute their goods.
Even though the government doesn't want it, it seems like the spirit of rebellion still runs
through New York's veins. Not only did they sell covid cards to people that never got vaccinated,
but they also entered false information into the system to cover their tracks.
The bootleggers only operated for two months but still turned a massive profit.
Julie owned and operated Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Long Island, New York.
She and her employee Melissa were charging a pretty penny for their fraudulent products.
They charged adults $220 for a card and the information to back it, while kid cards cost $85.
The Suffolk County Police Department opened an investigation into the women. On multiple
occasions, the ladies sold cards to undercover officers. Once the two women were arrested,
their houses got searched, and the police found what they were looking for. They
seized over $900,000 and a ledger that followed the scheme's profits from the very beginning.
During the seizure, the officers found some of the money in Helmet bags that are only issued by
the NYPD. This find indicated that her husband, an NYPD officer, must have been helping her. He
went under investigation as well. Police made one more arrest before it was all said and done.
Devuono's receptionist, 29-year-old Brooke Hogan, was arrested and charged like the others.
All three women were charged with forgery in the second degree, and Devuono caught an extra charge
for offering a false instrument for filing. All of these charges carry heavy prison sentences.
7 - Amanda Martinez This former nurse in
central Texas fell prey to one of the many pitfalls of social media,
misinformation. She was the target of a cancel campaign after being falsely identified in
a viral video. She definitely wasn’t the nurse that the internet thought gone wild!
The video was of another woman named Amanda
Martinez who threw hot soup in a restaurant employee's face.
"Internet detectives" took matters into their own hands and hunted the soup tosser down.
Unfortunately, they found the wrong Amanda, and instead of listening when
Amanda said it wasn't her, the internet doubled down.
The internet mob called the hospital and demanded Amanda be fired. She also received
threats from anonymous people on social media. It wasn't until the police arrested
the real soup thrower that internet sleuths realized their mistake. Amanda said in an
interview that the only thing she wants people to take away from her situation is to not jump
to conclusions. You shouldn't accuse someone of a crime until you're positive it's them.
6 - Italian Anti-Vaxxer Anywhere that tragedy strikes,
opportunists will find a way to profit. Italy is no exception
and has had its fair share of instances where people who don't want to take the shot
met up with people who want to profit from them. In Palermo, Italy, a nurse was caught on video
pretending to give covid shots. While it seemed like a standard injection to most people,
she was actually emptying the syringe into a tissue before injecting her patients.
She named all of her accomplices after police arrested her. She explained how the scheme
worked in a bid to get out of trouble. When questioned on why she would do such a thing,
the woman explained that she needed money to support her son in college.
She was charged with forgery and embezzlement.
Vaccine scams were all too common in Italy between 2020 and 2021.
There are all kinds of reports of people trying to game the system. Doctors pretending to inject
people and patients coming in with fake arms are some of the ways people try to be slick.
5 - Three Nurses In Orlando, three nurses were arrested for
their terrible treatment of an elderly disabled patient. Christopher Lozada, Christina Hison, and
Linda Moore were all on duty at Select Specialty Hospital when a patient came in with hypothermia.
There are many medically accepted ways to treat someone with hypothermia. Giving them blankets and
warm liquids to drink are the first things to try. If the situation worsens, medical professionals
can warm up the patient's blood or even give them an IV with warm liquid inside. However,
you should never put hot things on your skin to combat hypothermia. You'd expect registered nurses
to know this, but instead, they responded to the situation as they'd never heard of hypothermia.
Instead of following the standard practices, the three nurses filled up bags with hot water
from a coffee maker. They then placed the bags all over the patient's body. This was
where their lack of knowledge turned into pure neglect as they left the patient alone
for hours. Another nurse walked into the room and found the horrible sight.
The patient had severe third-degree burns from the bags all over their body.
The injuries were so severe that they needed multiple surgeries afterward.
After the incident came to light, warrants went out for the three nurses' arrest.
They were charged with aggravated abuse and neglect of a disabled adult.
Unfortunately, they were let out on bail and still have their medical licenses.
4 - William Davis William Davis was
sentenced in October 2021 after he committed some truly heinous acts. Davis was a nurse
working at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas. He was fired in 2018,
but not before he took the lives of four patients who were fresh off successful heart surgeries.
Davis took the lives of Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenway,
John Lafferty, and Joseph Kalina by injecting air into their arteries.
He was seen on camera entering all of their rooms moments before everything went wrong.
Davis didn't show any real emotion during his trial except when he heard the testimony from
one of his victim's widows. He didn't even bat an eye after the jury returned a verdict
two hours after they started deliberation. While he never gave a reason for the crimes,
the prosecution claimed that he enjoyed doing it. They pointed to video footage
that showed him watching the monitors of one of his victims until it flatlined.
3 - Alex Wubbles In July of 2017,
bodycam footage of a Salt Lake City officer forcibly arresting a nurse
at a hospital went viral. The video was released when police and the use of excessive force were
an ongoing topic in America. The unique timing of the footage caused an explosion of outrage,
washing over the university that owns the hospital, the police, and all of Salt Lake City.
The video was released by the nurse, Alex Wubbles, and her lawyer. The footage starts normal enough,
with Wubbles showing an officer a printout of one of the hospital's policies. The policy states that
unless a patient is under arrest, their blood cannot be drawn without permission or a warrant.
Both Wubbles and the officer in question later said they were following orders.
In this battle of orders, her opponent was detective Jeff Payne, and he was not happy
when she wouldn't let him draw the patient's blood. He’s seen in the video becoming
increasingly agitated as multiple people explain to him that he's making a mistake.
After a few moments of discussion, Payne's fuse reached its limit, and he blew up. He lunged
towards Wubbles, exclaiming, "we're done," and arrested her. The nurse was cool, calm,
and collected until that point. She even kept her manners in place and called the officer sir
throughout the ordeal. Once he started arresting her, that composure went right out the window.
He slapped on the cuffs and pushed Wubbles out the door and towards his car.
She screamed at the top of her lungs, letting anyone within a mile radius know
she didn't do anything wrong. The detective should have listened when he was told he
was making a mistake. The ordeal cost him and the state of Utah a whole lot.
Detective Payne was fired, and his watch commander was demoted. Wubbles and her attorney sued the
hospital, the university that owns it, and Utah itself. She eventually settled for half a million
dollars. Nurse Wubbles told CNN that she was very grateful for the settlement and that she never
asked for any of it to happen. The whole situation fell into her lap. Wubbles said that she would use
a good chunk of the money to help people access bodycam footage that they are involved with.
And the weirdest fact in all of this? Alex Wubbels is a former Olympian! She
competed under the name Alex Shaffer in Alpine skiing in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics!
2 - RaDonda Vaught She was a nurse at a
Tennessee hospital back in 2017, and on this day after Christmas, she accidentally dosed
a patient with the wrong medicine. Unfortunately, the elderly patient passed away from the injection
a short time later. The nurse's part in the death seemed to be swept under the rug until
an anonymous tip was given to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or CMS for short,
in late 2018. At first glance, the situation seems like an open and shut case of negligence
on the part of RaDonda. However, as things played out, many different angles showed themselves.
RaDonda was arrested and charged with impaired adult abuse and criminal
reckless homicide. Her criminal trial was pushed back to March 2022
due to the pandemic. The incident also cost Radonda her nursing license
when disciplinary action was filed against her by the Tennessee Board Of Nursing.
In total, the board accused her of three different violations. RaDonda
spoke during the hearing to give her side of the story. Surprisingly,
she accepted what she'd done and her part in the situation. However,
she also brought unsafe practices to light that she believes led to the tragedy.
RaDonda explained that the system to get medicine for patients has many issues. The biggest seems
to be the way it defaults to searching for generic brands instead of name brands. RaDonda encountered
this when she put in the medicine's name, and it came up with no results. Confused, she overrode
it and took the only medicine that came up when she typed in the first two letters. After all,
she was under the impression that this was the medicine prescribed by the patient's doctor.
However, that assumption led to the elderly patient's death,
and the debate is still ongoing. Who was at fault? The hospital and
their confusing system or the nurse who failed to double-check the medication?
1 - Kristen Johnson The medical board that oversees
New York's health care system has taken away medical licenses for many reasons.
However, when Kristen Johnson came before them, her case caught them off guard.
Kristen was at risk of losing her license because she took pictures of two patients'
private areas while they were unconscious. We wonder if her name really is Ms. Johnson
or if that's what her friends started calling her after receiving the pictures.
Taking nude photos of someone while unconscious is a crime that carries serious consequences.
Initially, Ms.Johnson was charged with a felony that could have sent her to prison. Instead, she
was offered a plea deal with a reduced sentence as long as she gave up her medical license.
The aspiring photographer narrowly avoided years of taking nude pictures with a prison phone.
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