Florida Woman Arrested For Impersonating A Nurse & Treating Over 4,400 Patients Using Stolen Medical License
A Florida woman is behind bars after allegedly posing as a nurse and treating thousands of patients over a two-year period without a valid license.
Authorities say 29-year-old Autumn Bardisa worked at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway and treated 4,486 patients while impersonating a registered nurse. The scheme only unraveled when she was up for a promotion, and coworkers discovered she only held an expired nursing assistant license.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly emphasized the seriousness of the situation, saying: “This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.” He added: “This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not.”
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According to investigators, Bardisa used a former classmate’s nursing license number and submitted fake documents during her 2023 job application. She claimed she had passed the necessary national exam and even provided a license number that matched her first name, but a different last name. When questioned, she blamed the discrepancy on a recent marriage but failed to produce a marriage certificate.
Following an internal investigation, Bardisa was fired in January 2025 and later arrested at her home. She today faces seven counts of practicing without a license and seven counts of identity fraud, and is currently being held on $70,000 bond.
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