Misty Dawn Bacon, 44, of Morristown, was sentenced to 51 months, followed by three years of supervised release. Bacon, a convicted felon, began working in East Tennessee as a registered nurse sometime before September 2012, even though she had no nursing degree, held no nursing license from the Tennessee Department of Health, and had no legitimate nursing experience. To accomplish her fraud, Bacon obtained the license numbers of real nurses with similar first names. Bacon then created phony aliases and used the real nurses’ license numbers to pose as an actual nurse and apply for nursing employment. In the process of submitting applications, Bacon falsely claimed that she held nursing degrees from Walters State College and Carson Newman University. Through her scheme, Bacon obtained employment with at least eight (8) healthcare providers between September 2012 and November 2018. During the six-year period, she worked in a variety of nursing settings, to include nursing homes, rehabilitation and assisted living facilities, a doctor’s office, and home health agencies.
