The nurse from Petersburb, which is trapped in graduate fraud scandal: do not harm

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A nurse based in Petersburg, who never acquired a legitimate degree of care or has completed the clinical hours required by Virginia Law, worked for more than two years in hospitals and care facilities before the state took measures to suspend its license.

Michael Sim Turay – also known as Mohamed Ishmael Turay – applied for his license in Virginia in October 2020 and claimed that he had completed a registered care program at the Jay College of Health Sciences in Florida. According to documents from the Virginia Ministry of Health, Turay never completed school and instead bought a fraudulent diploma and a protocol of the owner of Jay College, Ejike Asiegbunam.

In an agreement over 2024 with the US Justice Ministry, Asiegbunam admitted to having sold hundreds of fake nursing diplomas and transcripts between January 2018 and June 2021. These documents were used by buyers such as Turay to receive nursing licenses in several states, including Virginia.

With the fraudulent documents and the curriculum vitae, Turay in 2021 received his license to practice as a professional nurse in Virginia. Over the next few years, he worked as a nurse in the state via Connect RN staffing agency, he told the investigators and also worked in two health facilities in Maryland. Documents from the Virginia Ministry of Health do not indicate in which facilities or facilities Turay worked in Virginia, but has listed its permanent address in Petersburg.

When Turay was asked by an investigator of the health profession of health profession in December 2023, he gave contradictory answers about where and how he had completed his training, and he did not provide any legitimate proof that he had met the requirements for professional nursing in Virginia.

Turay incorrectly claimed in official records and interviews that he had completed clinic in several facilities in Florida, including the Kindred Hospital and the Canane Creek Surgery Center. However, representatives of these facilities later confirmed that they had never served as clinical locations for Jay College. In addition, Turay claimed that he had completed all of his personal clinics on a satellite campus in Maryland-and was not authorized to carry out remote lessons or training outside the state.

Turay's statements about the overall training he received were also inconsistent. In some cases, he claimed to have completed five separate clinical programs, each of which was shown for 19 days with three-hour sessions only 270 hours, far behind Virginias 500-hour minimum. At the same time, he also reported that he had been enrolled full-time in two different care programs, while he recorded several CNA jobs in three cities in Maryland and further questioned his timeline.

After completing his investigation, Virginia's Board of Nursing found that Turay falsified its login information and concluded in April that Turay was a “significant risk to public health or security” as a practicing RN and exposing its license. A formal administrative hearing for Turay is planned for July 2025.

Until this hearing takes place, Turay remains prohibited from nursing in Virginia. The license he received in 2021 is now considered invalid because it was granted due to fraudulent login information.

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Links to the above documents to which reference is made above:

Board of Nursinglicense Number: 0001303360 name: Michael Turay

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