COTTONWOOD, AZ (AZFamily) — A Mesa woman was arrested and is accused of posing as a nurse and treating patients using another woman’s nursing license.

Christine Muturi Lewis is facing multiple counts of forgery, fraud schemes, practicing nursing with a fraudulent license and computer tampering.

According to court documents, Lewis was hired by Northern Arizona Hospice (NAZ) in Cottonwood as a registered nurse in August.

In her application and resume, Lewis said she had worked as a triage nurse at a hospital in Las Vegas from February 2019 to March 2022.

She described herself as a “compassionate and highly skilled registered nurse” with more than four years’ experience in hospice triage and on-call services.

She submitted a Colorado nursing license that was valid in multiple states.

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