- December 4, 2025
A Palm Coast woman who posed as a licensed nurse at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway was arrested after a seven-month investigation by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
Autumn Bardisa, 29, was arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 5, on seven counts of practicing a health care profession without a license and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, according to a press release by the Sheriff's Office.
The investigation began in January after hospital administrators reported Bardisa had been fired for impersonating a registered nurse by utilizing someone else’s license number and submitting false documentation to be employed as an advanced nurse technician.
Bardisa had been working for AdventHealth since July 3, 2023, when she was hired as an advanced nurse tech. When applying for the position, the press release states, Bardisa indicated that she was an “education first” registered nurse, indicating she passed the required schooling to become a registered nurse but had not yet passed the national exam to obtain her license.
During the hiring process, Bardisa informed the hospital that she had passed the exam and provided a license number matching an individual with her first name, but with a different last name, stating that she had recently gotten married and had a new last name. Bardisa was then asked to provide her marriage license to AdventHealth, which she never did.
In January, Bardisa was offered a promotion, and a fellow employee checked the status of her license, discovering Bardisa had an expired certified nursing assistant license, which the employee reported to administrators.
Bardisa was fired on Jan. 22 after failing to confirm her identity. AdventHealth then contacted the FCSO to conduct a criminal investigation, which determined Bardisa had participated in medical services to 4,486 individuals from June 2024 through January 2025, despite never holding a valid nursing license.
She is being held at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on a $70,000 bond.
