The ruse worked for about 10 hours:
“Our team members felt that she was a credible person,” Lutton said. “They thought she was a colleague.”
But soon after the Monday night shift began, triage employees noticed that the “float,” their name for a temporary worker, couldn’t take temperatures or read blood pressure.
By her third failed attempt, they told her to shadow another worker. She did so for the rest of the shift.






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