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Texas Board of Nursing cites continued enforcement work on 'Operation Nightingale' as budget request secures funding
Summary
Board leaders told members that enforcement against fraudulent nursing programs remains active, the Legislature included full replenishment for Operation Nightingale in the introduced budget, and staff have used new inactivation agreements to remove potentially unqualified licensees from practice pending education review.
The Texas Board of Nursing reported to members that enforcement tied to fraudulently operating education programs known as Operation Nightingale remains a major, ongoing workload and that the introduced state budget includes replenishment of the funding the board sought for that effort.
Executive staff told the board the agency continues to identify licensees associated with alleged diploma mills and other nonaccredited schools and that legal work is active to pursue contested-case hearings and other enforcement steps. Board staff said the funding included in the governor's/Senate introduced budget covers the board's requests to sustain the enforcement effort through the…
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