ANKENY, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) – An Iowa nurse accused of identity theft and job abandonment has had her license placed on probation.
State records show that in September 2025, registered nurse Jamie Lyn Jorgensen, 38, of Ankeny, provided her employer with a series of notes, purportedly signed by her physician, to excuse her from work obligations. The notes and signatures were later determined to have been forged, according to the Iowa Board of Nursing.
In addition, the board alleges, on Oct. 8, 2025, Jorgensen left her shift at an unspecified care facility without properly notifying a supervisor or having someone to take over the care of her patients. A patient had what the board describes as “an anaphylactic issue” — anaphylaxis typically signals a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction — and the patient was left to treat themselves by self-administering a drug using an EpiPen…