- April 13, 2026
BUNNELL, Fla. — Autumn Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, who was arrested by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in August 2025 for posing as a nurse and treating over 4,400 patients without a license, pleaded no contest and has been sentenced.
On April 7, Bardisa pleaded no contest to unlicensed practice of health care and fraudulent use of an I.D. Following Bardisa’s plea agreement, Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols withheld adjudication and sentenced her to five years’ probation and 50 hours of community service. She will also be required to send a letter of apology to the nurse whose license number she stole.
As part of the plea agreement, Bardisa also forfeited her own nursing license, which she earned after her arrest, to the Florida Department of Health. She is prohibited from practicing medicine during her probation.
“Nursing is a noble profession about caring for those in need, but there is a right way and wrong way to go about it, and she chose the wrong way by using a real nurse's license. Because she chose to circumvent the rules, she ruined her career, and she potentially endangered patients,” said Sheriff Rick Staly. “Rightfully, she won’t be able to work in the medical field for a minimum of three years and up to five years. I commend our detectives that worked hard to build the case to expose her crimes and impersonation. We did our job by successfully investigating this case. I also respect the prosecutor and the courts in the final sentencing decisions.”
Bardisa was originally facing seven counts of unlicensed practice of health care and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information as the result of a seven-month investigation by the FCSO General Assignment Unit.
