Don't try this at home......
Norwalk (WTNH) - A woman that worked as a registered nurse, administering medication and doling out advice to patients at a Norwalk doctor's office, has been charged with posing as a nurse.
Betty Lichtenstein, also known as Betty Trudel, 56, worked for Dr. Gerald Weiss.
Police began investigating Lichtenstein back in March 2009 after a patient complained that she was acting unprofessionally. They found out that she had never been licensed to practice nursing.
Lichtenstein even went so far to fool her employer that she staged a dinner honoring herself as 'Nurse of the Year', hosted by the Connecticut Nursing Association. Police say she paid more $2,000 of her own money for the dinner and that the Connecticut Nursing Association does not exist.
Illegal use of the title 'registered nurse' is a felony. Lichtenstein has also been charged with reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation.
Back in May, she was arrested by Norwalk Police in an unrelated case and charged with illegally obtaining prescription drugs and forgery. That case is pending in Norwalk Superior Court.
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