Cleveland Escorts: Some temp agencies hire out unfit nurses
Among reporters’ findings, based on disciplinary records, personnel files, court documents and interviews:
– Agencies hired nurses who had criminal records or left states where their licenses had been restricted or revoked. At least three agencies employed a nurse in California whose license had been suspended in Minnesota for stealing drugs at a string of temp jobs. One used him after he’d been convicted of doing the same at a nursing home in Santa Rosa, Calif.
– Temp agencies shuffled errant nurses from one hospital to another, even as complaints mounted. A Culver City, Calif., agency continued sending one nurse to hospitals despite more than a dozen warnings that she was ignoring patients and sleeping on the job. Before the agency hired her, the nurse had been convicted of 12 crimes, including prostitution, carrying a concealed weapon and cocaine possession.