A South Florida woman is facing charges after authorities said she posed as a licensed nurse and advertised post-cosmetic surgery services on social media.<\/p>\n
Manouchka Jean-Noel, 27, was arrested Wednesday on charges including unlawful practice of nursing, organized scheme to defraud, practicing health care without a license, practicing massage without a license and using a nursing title without a license, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Jean-Noel had advertised on Instagram that she is a nurse and massage therapist offering post-operative care including “drain removal” following cosmetic surgery.<\/p>\n
But a records check with the Florida Department of Health showed she wasn’t licensed to practice any health care, the report said.<\/p>\n
“The defendant has multiple videos on Instagram showing her performing the above-mentioned unlicensed activity,” the report said. “In one video, the defendant is seen giving a patient a lymphatic massage while blood and other fluids are squirting out of an open wound.”<\/p>\n
Investigators spoke with one victim who said she paid Jean-Noel $550 to care for her after cosmetic surgery, believing her to be a licensed nurse and massage therapist, the report said.<\/p>\n
The surgery was rescheduled and the victim said she never received services but Jean-Noel refused to give her a refund, the report said.<\/p>\n
An undercover investigator later arranged to meet with Jean-Noel to discuss receiving post-surgery services, and she told the investigator she’s a licensed nurse and licensed massage therapist and has been performing services since 2018, the report said.<\/p>\n
When the investigator gave Jean-Noel a $1,500 deposit, she was taken into custody and booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida woman is facing charges after authorities said she posed as a licensed nurse and advertised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,373],"class_list":["post-409682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}