A 29-year-old Florida woman posed as a registered nurse for seven months and treated 4,486 patients in Flagler County before finally getting arrested on Tuesday. (See video below, posted by the New York Post.)

Amber Bardisa, who was already working at AdventHealth as an "advanced nurse tech," had allegedly stolen the identity of a colleague — a registered nurse whose name was also Amber — to apply for the position in 2024. When questioned about her last name, which had suddenly "changed," she claimed she had just gotten married. AdventHealth did ask to see her marriage license, but never followed through when the license never materialized.

It wasn't until the healthcare corporation actually gave her a promotion in January, 2025 that a suspicious colleague decided to check her status. 1

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