3 Florida nursing schools sold 7,600 fake diplomas that helped applicants skip essential steps to becoming licensed nurses, federal prosecutors say

• Three schools in Florida sold 7,600 fake credentials to nursing license applicants, officials said.
• The faux diplomas and transcripts qualified applicants for the national nursing board exam.
• They would have allowed buyers to potentially skip thousands of clinical trainings, prosecutors said.

Up to 7,600 people across the US may be using fake nursing credentials from a scheme run by Florida nursing schools selling diplomas, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.