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!Update Monday, February 12, 2018: Michele Anderson-West was hired as my attorney.

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|'''Nightingale Nursing College, a for profit college:''' 
* Has a phenominal 26% percent employee turnover per year.
* 52% student pass rate on the NCLEX examination when 80% is required nationally.
* Accreditor ACEN after a failed site visit and a failed appeal in Atlanta on approximately January 25, is about to lose ACEN accreditation in early March.
* In 2017, [[Nightingale/ABHES|ABHES]] accused our Russian CEO [[Nightingale/Mikhail Shneyder|Mikhail Shneyder]] of spying during their site visit, after a lengthy battle (potentially) with Nightingale attorneys, Nightingale was begrudgingly given accreditation. 
* Has violated ACEN nursing requirements for accreditation.
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|''The information contained on this webpage is legally privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity who received an e-mail from Travis Bailey, Esq. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this in error, please notify the creator by reply e-mail: travbailey@gmail.com 
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<nowiki>----------</nowiki> Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: Susan Jero RN, MSN <sjero@nightingale.edu><br>
Date: Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:58 PM<br>
Subject: In Follow up<br>
To: Travis Lee Bailey <moscowamerican@gmail.com><br>
Cc: "Kevin Smith, PsyD, SPHR, SHRM-SCP" <ksmith@nightingale.edu>


Hello Travis,

In follow up to our conversation earlier today, your employment is ending as a consequence of performance issues. Before [the phone was disconnected] I had wanted to share that there are severance options available to you as follows:

# No severance, NC continues to pay portion health care premium through end of month, OR<br>
# One week (40 hours) severance and NC agrees to not contest a claim for unemployment insurance benefits (with signed settlement and release) and NC continues to pay portion of health care premium through end of month; OR<br>
# Two weeks (80 hours) severance (with signed agreement and release) and all welfare benefits end on 2/9.

Receiving your choice of one of the options noted above, a., b., or c., is contingent upon you returning to Nightingale College all of its property, including but not limited to its laptop, its key card, and any other Nightingale College possessions you may have. If there are any of your possessions within the College, we’d be happy to return those to you as well.

The severance options are available to you until '''5:00 PM, Monday, February 12'''.
 

If you have any questions at all you may contact myself or Kevin Smith. I believe you have my phone number, and Kevin’s number is 435.868.8779

FLAME! FORWARD!

Susan Jero RN, MSN<br>
Director, Nursing Education Services<br>
sjero@nightingale.edu<br>
Office: (801)689-2160<br>
Fax: (801) 689-3114<br>
www.nightingale.edu<br>
Nightingale College

175 S Main Street 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
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* '''6 months severance pay''' for being punished by Nightingale Nursing College because I whistle-blew on some of their violations of accreditation, most prominently the CEO [[Nightingale/Mikhail Shneyder|Mikhail Shneyder]] asking me to spy on the nursing accreditor [[Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing]] ([[ACEN]]) in late August. My concerns about the severe retribution were improperly addressed by Kevin Smith and Susan Jero.  

'''A letter of recommendation''' signed by Susan Jero and the written understanding that if any employer contact Nightingale college the college will neutrally refer them to the '''letter of recommendation'''.

In return for this severance I will sign a '''non-disclosure agreement''' with Nightingale and not report the college to: 
# Any national nursing accreditation agencies current and future, 
# I will refrain from publicly sharing my knowledge of Nightingale with the:
:# public,
:# With the Nightingale board of directors,
:# With the hospitals that host Nightingale clinical and sims,
:# with other Nightingale faculty,
:# with previous fired faculty and
:# with Nightingale students 
...in perpetuity. 
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!   Friday, February 9, 2018
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|'''On Friday, February 9, 2018, at approximately 9:15 am, as an employee of Nightingale, I mailed my work laptop to Marsal P. Stoll, EdD, CEO, [[Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing]] (hereafter "ACEN") director,  ''' I am deeply concerned that my issues are not being addressed fully and if I continued to work on this computer, the forensic evidence of what CEO [[Nightingale/Mikhail Shneyder|Mikhail Shneyder]] had asked me to do during ACEN and other retribution would be deleted and my browser history, etc. would be used against me in a devious way similar to the way other form faculty have been historically mistreated. 

;Terminated over the phone 
At 1 pm, because I did not promptly come into after an 11 am from a dentist appointment, my immediate supervisor Susan Jero called, with HR director Kevan **. I told them that I sent my computer to ACEN that morning. I was terminated over the telephone.

Later that day, I texted Susan Jero that I was retaining a lawyer on Monday.

On Friday, February 9, 2018, Susan Jero sent an email with a deadline of Monday to decide on how to end my employment, she gave me three options. ''[see above]''
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Expected Delivery by MONDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2018 by 8:00pm to [http://www.acenursing.org/acen-ceo-dr-marsal-stoll/ Dr. Marsal Stoll, CEO of ACEN]].
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! Background
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My name is Travis Lee Bailey.  I am an international attorney, licensed to practice law in Washington DC.* I am currently not licensed in Utah and work at at Nightingale Nursing College (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightingale_College), a for profit school which is at risk of losing its accreditation with ACEN in March 2018.  I am currently the secretary "coordinator" directly under [[Nightingale/Sue|Susan Jero]], the Director of Nursing Education Services [NES], a non-legal position. I started this job on August 7, 2017. 

'''Nightingale has a phenomenal 26% (Approx.) annual turn over rate with staff.''' Stories abound among staff about how terrible it is to work at the organization. Most of these problems stem from Kara, the director of Finances and the Russian CEO, Mikhail. 

Nursing schools must be licensed by accredited national organizations to stay open.  Like many for profit colleges, Nightingale is getting intense pressure from the federal government and national and regional accreditation organizations to show demonstrable pass rates and academic standards or risk being shut down. Nightingale is about to lose accreditation from ACEN. 

Utah is a right to work state, but there are very strict rules about the way that nursing schools much function nationally, there are also strict rules Nightingale must follow regionally, if they do not follow these rules a nursing college risks losing accreditation. I am not an expert in accreditation guidelines but Nightingale (may) be breaking several of these accreditation rules by doing the following.
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I will now explain some of these concerns which I brought to the college's attention.

# In August 2016, the Russian CEO of Nightingale College, [[Nightingale/Mikhail Shneyder|Mikhail Shneyder]] ask me to spy on [[Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing]] (ACEN), the accreditation organization that licenses nursing. This spying meant that I would ask all of the staff to write down questions that ACEN asked. 
:# In e-mails and Skype which I have retained, Kara Harmon approved this spying.
:# I also sat in all of the meetings with students, faculty, and staff as an employee of Nightingale under the guise of technical support which Susan Jero later approved. 
:# This spying is strictly against the rules of ACEN.  
:# While getting accreditation, ABHES had accused Nightingale of recording the sessions before, and only after a lengthy battle did Nightingale retain their accreditation with ABHES.  
:# Although this verbal conversation with Mikhail was face to face, I have electronic and hard copy proof that the four directors of Nightingale knew about it.  [[Susan Jero]] signed off on it twice, and [[Kara]] signed off on it once.  
:# Ignorant of the history of this organization, I interpreted the conversation with Shneyder as that I should record the conversation. 
:# Executech Curtis Hartley told me that he '''lied''' to ACEN official Bill M. and stated it was his initiative, in an attempt to "shield" Nightingale. 
# As a result, I was severely reprimanded for recording this online conference, but Kara, Mikhael and Sue supported me collecting these questions and responses for future "ACEN meetings".  This is only when I found out from Curtis that Nightingale had almost lost its accreditation with ABHES.<br><!--


--> It is very likely that Nightingale will lose these final appeal in March against ACEN in March 2018.  If ACEN and ABHES  finds out about this it could jeopardize Nightingale's accreditation not only with ACEN, but with ABHES, regional accreditation, etc.

# '''HR Confidentiality''' - In my first four months [[Nightingale/Elia Miller]] openly discussed past employees records and misdeeds with me at work. It really shocked me the number of people that Nightingale has fired or who have quit. She openly discussed a former director who had worked at the college and who had gotten a 6 month severance package when he was fired. This former director may have signed a confidentiality agreement which Elia maybe violating.  When I brought this to my direct boss attention on Wednesday February 7, Sue Jero, she openly admitted that Elia Miller discussing past clients was a past issue. Elia would openly talk about Suzette, another past director of nursing who crossed Mikhail. 
# '''Nepotism''' - Director Kara hired her son Chase and his best friend Kyle as IT tech support employees at Nightingale. It is an open secret with the organization. I spoke at length on Wednesday with the IT director Carson about my concerns about this.  He said that they were addressing the problem that very day, and that Chase would now have strict guidelines to follow.  He acknowledged the problems were endemic with Chase. He could have also potentially shared this with the directors.   IT personal Russ Fuller discussed at length how the school "misappropriate funds" with the Nepotism - in his words, this allows "Kara to not have to pay for Kyle's car payments" etc.  Russ stated that the school was being fleeced by Kara.  I brought these issues up to Carson also.  I repeatedly told Susan Jero about what Russ Fuller was telling me about the school in confidence.  She suggested that I "don't talk to Russ" anymore. Based on Russ's body language and aggressive stance toward me, I suspect that Susan Jero divulged this confidences. 
# '''HR retention rate, historical retaliation and personal retaliation''' I complained about the high turnover rate and some of the things I had heard from the employees with Kara and the HR director Kevan in writing.  We had a conference call. On November 12, Kevin had the door unlocked in my office by another employee, and without knocking, came into my office and threatened me, with his finger in my face saying, if you "keep this attitude up you will not last here".  [Note]
# '''Personal Retaliation''' - Nic Flores, the assistant directly below Mikhail, filed a frivolous HR complain against me.  Both Kevan and Susan Jero acknowledged that it was frivolous. Kevan warned me that if I responded to this complaint "one of us would be fired" and Susan Jero told me to drop the complaint.  Before and after the meeting Kevin told me that this was "not a democracy" repeatedly in which Susan Jero was a witness.  When I gave the written complaint to Susan Jero about Kevin threatening me on November 12, she said "there is nothing here" and dismissed it. Refusing me to file both the complaint against me from Nic and the complaint against Kevin.
# '''Fire code violations'''.  On Thursday, February 8, I discussed at length with Nerima the problems with Nightingale with fire code violations which Nightingale must strictly follow. She said that Nightingale is a firetrap [my words].  she discusses her frustration about [[Nightingale/CEO|CEO]] sounding "annoyed" when she told him about this problem. I tell her I just walked downstairs last night and it ends at level 2. I asked her if she knew I was an attorney.  She said no.  I told her about options that we could do [ladder outside of window], liability in a suit, etc.  she says that she will include me in the meeting with [[Nightingale/Kara|Kara]] and [[Nightingale/KayDee|KayDee]].  I express my reservations about that, knowing how angry KayDee and Kara will be if she suggests that I be part of the meeting, but she says she is okay with this  as it is her meeting. She may have told Kara about this discussion that I had on Thursday with her.


;Other issues not relating to me directly:
* '''HR issues''' Accreditation director Faith Williamson in my third week discussed how some "woman" (probably Kara since there is only two female directors, Susan and Kara) got in an argument with her best friend [[Nightingale/Taylor Allen|Taylor Allen]] when she complained about conditions at Nightingale.  Allen argued about the written guidelines on working.  This woman crossed out the HR rules while she was sitting in front of her.  This woman was then pushed out of Nightingale for arguing with this woman.  I did not bring this issue up to anyone.
* Everyone in the school is frightened of Kara, the director who hired her son to work in IT. In receptionist Sylvia's words, "you will do just fine if you just don't cross Kara". I witnessed Kara and Mikhail screaming at the top of their lungs at each other at work.  Everyone said at one time this was common. Susan said this was the reason that she had moved to another part of the office.  When I brought up my ambitions, I was warned on Friday, February 2, 2018 by Marketing director Jonathan Tanner about how it was "dangerous" to attempted to do anything outside of Nursing Education. John Bowen talked about how he would watch whole groups of people walk out of Nightingale in one day.  [[Nightingale/Russ Fuller|Russ Fuller]] explained to me how Kara and Mikhail would pick on Sue.  Concerned about Susan I mentioned this to her on Wednesday, February 7, and she acknowledged this treatment. 
* On Wednesday, John Bower later warned me about how vindictive [[Nightingale/Nic Flores|Nic Flores]], the assistant to the CEO can be.  [[Nightingale/Elia Miller|Elia Miller]] stated that the  replacement to [[Nightingale/Suzette Scheuermann|Suzette Scheuermann]] would openly fight with Nic Flores.

==See also==
* [[Nightingale/Glassdoor]]
* [[Nightingale/Timeline]] (older)
* [[Media]] (old)