Nursing Student Claims Sexual Harassment, Retaliation in Lawsuit Filed Against UNC Greensboro
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law
On November 29, 2019, a former University of North Carolina nursing student sued the school’s Greensboro campus, saying it improperly dismissed from her a program a month before graduation. She filed two separate suits. She claims she was forced to endure sexual harassment as a student for years. Then, when she accused a supervisor of misconduct, she was gradually pushed out of the nursing program, according to the lawsuit.
She is suing the University of North Carolina’s Greensboro nursing department in state court and UNC’s Board of Directors along with the Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia in federal court.
Lawsuit Describes Alleged Harassment, Retaliation.
According to the suit, the harassment began less than a year after she enrolled in the Doctor of Nursing […]