Claim: Says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of "3,000 complaints against nurses, many of them sexual assaults, malfeasance."
Fact-check: State Sen. John Whitmire says the Texas Board of Nursing has a backlog of 3,000 complaints, including many cases of sexual assault and malfeasance
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Ciara O'Rourke
Date published: 2011-05-16T00:00:00