Former Nurse Anesthesia Student Sues West Virginia’s Mountain State University

A former nurse anesthesia student at Mountain State University in Beckley, W.Va., has filed a federal lawsuit against the school, alleging instructors and administrators committed acts of fraud, negligence and intentional misrepresentation while she attended MSU, according to a Register-Herald report.

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Christy M. Brewer alleges that in the spring and fall semesters of 2007, the university’s graduate nurse anesthesia program director at that time failed to provide her with a course syllabus, failed to review any of her course work and offered to “make a deal” with her to repeat a failed pharmacology exam, after which he provided her with three packets of paper allegedly containing the final exam questions.

Ms. Brewer states in the suit that she refused the director’s officer and notified him of such, by letter, a day after her meeting with him in Dec. 2007. Other allegations in Ms. Brewer’s suit say she was treated unfairly when given clinical assignments, was inappropriately charged clinical fees by the university and had inaccurate transcripts provided by MSU to a Tennessee hospital that caused the facility to withdraw her employment offer.

The accused director left MSU in Aug. 2008.

Read the Register-Herald report on Mountain State University.

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