RaDonda Vaught speaks out l GMA
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The former nurse who made a fatal mistake that led to a patient's death is speaking out in an ABC exclusive.
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Not all mistakes are committed with malicious intentions. If Radonda Vaught got incarcerated for an HONEST MISTAKE, then more patients will be in danger due to the fear of reporting errors. She never covered up her actions. She came forward and took responsibility. That's how it should have and must be. She already lost her license and career. She will have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life. Those are life sentences on their own. For healthcare professionals who expected jail time for her, some day and some way, you will end up in the same position as her and will beg for the same mercy given to her.
The EHR developer is equally at fault if you applied the prosecution's logic. I challenge any layperson here to go through EHR workflow and clicks and tell me you wouldn't go through all the overrides that nurses do every day.
@@keypeng4164 Stop just stop. Everyday in countless medical facilities nurses use over rides and don't kill patients.
Beautiful speech, but patient got the death sentence.
@Name44 Last Please provide your clinical credentials and years of experience then I will consider your point of view. anything else you have to say is moot.
@Name44 Last Of course she should be help responsible. But not prosecuted. If she got fired, then so should the developers and project managers of the workflow and EHR build.
She immediately reported it to all the correct departments. The hospital covered it up only reporting it when they were going to audited my medicaid and wanted to throw someone under the bus. Nurses face this all the time at hospitals. We are over worked and understaffed. This medicine should never have been in the department. One of the best decisions I ever made was to quit practicing nursing. Its not worth the stressed we sometimes forced to endure and then only to be treated poorly by administration.
She reported it after a nurse caught her mistake you idiot a deadly mistake that got someone kill she is the one that didn't follow the safety procedures put in place
So are we going to criminalize the physician that neglected to order continuous monitoring for the patient while they were undergoing CT while being given Versed? Or how about the hospital administration that provided policies for overriding a clearly dysfunctional medicine administration system? How about the radiology staff that were with the patient alongside Radonda that should have been watching the patient WITH her that didn't notice the patients lack of breathing until they went into cardiac arrest?
There are so many factors present in the demise of the patient that are completely being overlooked and all of the responsibility is being placed on Radonda. The loss of her license and ability to work in any healthcare profession is enough punishment. She shouldn't have been criminalized for this. Doctors can be negligent and flat out murder hundreds of patients but they are exempt from this type of circumstance because they bring the money to the hospitals. The nurses always take the blame and this is too far.
Once the pharmacy had sent over some nystatin oral suspension that was clear. I noticed this right away as it is normally a milky yellow color. I called the pharmacy and they had sent the wrong medication but labeled it as nystatin. If the patient was given the medication resulting in death or injury. Guess who would be taking the blame? The nurse. It’ll always be the nurse to go down, we’re the last line of defense.
I sometimes get stuck working four 16 hour shifts in a row, because my relief doesn’t show up, managers want to be home with their families so of course they’re not gonna help, and patients need someone to take care of them, so you’re stuck. Even though you’re mentally, physically, and emotionally drained. Then you wake up after your short nap, push through the body aches and pains and do it again. Medical professionals, we’re made different. And yes it’s true we have to override the omnicell for everything especially verbal orders. Especially in emergency situations. Also a medication could be stored in the wrong place so ALWAYS check what you pull out. People stock these medications in the machine and guess what? People make mistakes. Prayers for everyone involved
You’re doing what Randonda said we don’t do in hospital, pointing fingers, and you’re pointing at too many people! Leave the radiologists alone they sit in dark rooms to read scans, they wouldn’t know what to do when a patient stops breathing
Hey you retard! She didn't follow simple procedures stop justifying what she did like it should be okay to kill someone she is incompetent or a murderer either way she doesn't need to be a nurse
Everyone who is involved in patient care (including radiology techs) must have basic life support certification (CPR certification)Even the transporters. By the way, a radiologist is a DOCTOR, so yes they would know what to do. That’s part of their license. I’m assuming you meant radiology techs, which still applies to the above.
The point wasn’t about pointing fingers it was about why the prosecution didn’t go after all of these people? The answer is because it was a system wide error: so many things caused this patient to die, not just the nurses mistake. That being said, yea it was a BIG mistake!
I am so glad I retired from nursing when I turned 50 years old. I left nursing because of the unrealistic nursing ratios and I knew if I stayed I would make a mistake too.
Yep, me too. I am 33 years old, I got a new career as an Environmental Technician and I will leave nursing in one month. I am so glad, the job is feeling more and more dangerous.
Good I'm glad you retired too because if you can't follow a simple procedure then you don't need to be a damn nurse
@@ronniepeels7468 You have no idea what you are talking about. There is nothing simple about being a nurse in ICU where drugs are titrated and there is a code blue just about every day.
@Lisa Gardner I am a nurse and guess what if you are worried you could kill someone over a simple mistake that can be fixed by looking at the meds you give your patients it's time to look for a new job honey
@@ronniepeels7468 I doubt you are a nurse. And even if you are, I doubt you work in a hospital let alone a ICU unit.
I don't know how she could or want to do nursing after that .. blessing in disguise..
I was an LPN and I made three med errors in two years. I self-reported them (long story makes it easy to see how they could happen when you're trying to do more than one person can) and only one error would have been known otherwise. My license was revoked. The Nevada nursing board members told me they don't make mistakes.
But hey, I didn't have to be a nurse during the pandemic. Thank you, God!
If you think about it, the hospital would be the next choice for sharing the burden of blame which would damage reputation and revenue in the end. From a business perspective, better to let a single nurse fall on the sword alone than allow an organization to take a hit as well. This is the mentality I see with many hospital organizations, sadly. Nurses are dispensable.
Hey retard she failed to follow simple procedures are you so damn stupid you can't see that stop justifying this woman's actions
Gee wonder why there's a nurse shortage
As a nurse im not staying in this field forever. I remember my aunt who's a nurse reported a mistake ASAP and she got fired for it what the fuck
EVERY nurse has made a med error. Thank god they are rarely fatal but it happens to everyone. So sad
She bypassed the Pixus warning. She bypassed the eMAR warning. She didn’t read the vial beyond the letter “V”, she ignored the bright red cap on the vial (which is a warning), she failed to do VS on her patient after administering the med, and she failed to check-in on her patient. Did she go into work with the intent to kill a patient? No. But did she CHOOSE to bypass every damn safeguard put into place for patient safety? Yes. That is negligent homicide.
I think the world would be shocked at the volume of medical mistakes made by doctors, doctors who can afford malpractice attorneys, and get nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The hospital needs to protect their nurse, there have to be consequences, take away her license or do whatever, but don’t criminalize the front lines of healthcare
This. Like you see many doctors get away with malpractice, and they knowingly go through these procedures.
It All Depends in What The malpractice was
If a doctor can't read something's ngvad simple as an x-ray of an 8;yr old little girl, that is dark and ominous .then he better know the protocol and he had better use it.. other wise he should do jail time he should loose his license..she then went on to need a major surgery on her hip..that had a great chance of being unnecessary..so while you sit up there on your high mountain with your statements for and waving your flag for doctors ..you can shove it up your as$
@@pattyvanpilsum9897 damn, chill. I literally said they should lose their license. It doesn’t sound like I’m the one with the stick up theirs
She should never ever be a nurse because she failed to follow simple procedures put in place to save lives and it resulted in death! She is incompetent and you are a tard
The story here is the facility not the nurse
And you are as dumb as the nurse is that can't follow simple safety procedures she had warning after warning but she chose to ignore and a woman died because of her you brain Dead monkeys ass
God bless RaDonda and the surviving family members that stated their mom would forgive.
We as nurses Must ALWAYS remember the 6 steps.
NO EXCEPTIONS
Kendra RN did a 2 part nursing analysis on this case and its eye opening and I'm not even in nurse and the information was a WOW FACTOR of what she possibly would've went thru
Where ?
@@itzelr3514 i found it on youtube
@itzelr3514 google her handle name which is kendra rn and all her videos will populate. KENDRA RN
Vanderbilt will change some of their rules but dont take responsibility for their part
If you are doing your medication checks and especially getting a 2nd RN to check the meds you are giving (which is what the legal protocol is for I.V and S8 meds in Australia) a mistake like this should never happen. Was there a 2nd RN check and somehow it was missed by both nurses??? If so then she isn't solely liable for this med error. I really dont know how a med error like this is possible if you are doing the correct checks. Ridiculous. And not ok.
They need to change the 12 hr shift to 10hr shift. We are overworked and our health going down taking care of others. Corporations don’t care for their workers. Hospitals need to hire mor staff instead of filling their pockets!
Forreal. Hospital needs more staffs! I think the perfect ratios is this:
Med surg 1:3
ICU: 1:1
IMU: 1:2
MOTHER AND BABY: (depending on babies: 1:1 (for twins and more) 1:2 (for one birth)
I left some out, but that’s what I think would be best to ensure we give the best care to patients.
However, this isn’t realistic since that would require a lot of non existence staffs
The 12 he ahift
Model is just one problem nurses face. Give them the option of working 8, 10 or 12s. I bet things were safer when there were only 8 hr shifts and this was for
Good reason!
So true. Not only that, but some patients can be extremely difficult and even hostile. I work in a hospital and 2 of my coworkers were violently assaulted on the job by their patients. They immediately had to get CT scans. I really wish nurses were allowed to fight back and defend themselves.
She was distracted? People are treating this woman's death as a common mistake. What about next time? Just be a oops.
The excuse that doctors make is "were only human" that maybe true but we call that negligence. And when that kills a patient yeah your ass is going to jail.
Should perjury be criminalized?
Nice comment, how are you doing today?
Im not a nurse, im a nursing asst. I have 2 little ones, no i dont have to give them a strong med like what she gave her patient, but with any meds i give my babies i triple check. I dont care how busy or whatever is happening in my life at that moment.. Check!Check! Check! Check again for me. She owning up to it, but in the same breath pointing the finger at the hospital. 🤔. How. You.... Gonna, but ok.. I seen a comment SHE CAN READ. Big facts on that one too. Praying for her!!
So sad for both .. freak accident at the same time fair she was fired some responsibility has to be done.. moving ⏩ I don't believe jail time honestly a mistake that is scary for all nurses big responsibility
Not a freak accident when you're being negligent at your job
She purposely failed to follow safety precautions multiple times...do you not comprehend this? She killed someone and should be held acountable
That’s so devastating for the both of them 😢 ugh. Rip to the old man and I give much hope and best wishes to the nurse. I know it was an honest mistake and we’re only human. ❤
You would not say this if this was your grandparents getting care and a medical mistake happened
Look at history in all areas of the world, not just in Healthcare. People usually have to lose their life before changes happen. The airline industry, food industry, automotive industry... All of them have this same exact cycle. You think your product or service is safe enough, until it isn't and then changes get made. Unfortunately, it won't be the last time something like this happens. It's how we (society) learns and grows and as sad as it is that people die because of mistakes or oversights, it's a part of the world.
This was all caused by greed. this hospital, run by greedy non medical bosses, decided to understaff and under fund treatment of the patients and what do you know one died. how cops have qualified immunity but nurses dont is just mind blowing to me.
That's how it works. There's nothing that we can do about it. However, I'm going into Hospital Administration studies.
She's making excuses for herself. There is NO EXCUSE for her not reading the label on a medication, before she injected it into a patient. She was grossly negligent, and deserved to be convicted of it.
How come we are not hearing anything about root cause analysis? For an experienced nurse like Radonda to have made this monumental error, a great number of systemic safeguards were non-existent, ignored, unenforced and if you give me a thesarausI could go on and on and on. If you think she is solely accountable and responsible you have no idea what is the reality in the nursing profession. Our professional organizations such as the ANA need to be more vocal on real issues in nursing such work load, patient ratio, burnout, turnover and spend less time dedicated to political activism. I am yet to see a Joint Commission inspection address any of those issue. The Nursing profession is hard and a punitive environment will only lead to more negative outcomes for everyone.
Root cause analysis: overwriting fail-safes, searching for a medication by typing just 3 letters into a system??? and not paying attention to the fact the intended medication itself required different preparation than what was given in error? Come ON
Safe guards were in place her dumb ASS ignored them causing the death of someone and she and anyone else that can't follow simple safety errors does not need to go into the medical field period
What happened to just giving good old painkillers to ease anxiety..... Now you'll be lucky to get a painkiller if you got ran over by a truck....I got no sympathy for nurses or doctors they think they're higher than you and when you ask for something that you know works they will look at you like you're an addict when they're the ones that are really the addicts
If this were my mom she'd be doing time
King Joseph.I agree with you. The pastor at my church said she's going to hell. If I catch her in heaven. I'm kicking her out and sending her somewhere else. I don't care who gets offended. Thêse other nurses need to stop protesting and get back to work.
Well...little does she know that this was a saving grace for her. Feeling like you're responsible for someone's death is horrible. But nursing hasn't gotten better. Still pushing people beyond what they can safely handle. Still putting baby nurses in critical areas without enough experienced people to look over them nor adequate time to orient to these critical areas. It's a sad state of affairs. Better to be out of it, as you see what the hospital does to support their employees. And what has happened to Vanderbuilt? What?
There were multiple clear warnings that she was injecting a paralyzing agent. She’s grossly incompetent. I feel like she should have served a little bit of jail time, this was a mistake but it costed someone their life. Mechanics are put in jail if they make a mistake on a car that gets someone killed in an accident, and everyone screams for them to be locked up for a million years. But in this case everyone goes: “oh she was burnt out”. Glad to see not everyone is defending her.
You must not be a nurse so it is hard for you to understand. I retired from being an ICU nurse because I knew if I stayed I would make a mistake too. I started getting 3 and 4 patients every time I worked instead of the normal 2 patient ratio. Doing double the work for 12 hours at a time I am bound to make a mistake sooner rather than later. Some shifts I did not go to the bathroom or take a break/lunch because that is how busy it is.
Andrew: do our job for a week and you will see what we do and how the system is broken. You couldn’t handle our job, bro.
@@Cwgrlup cry about it. i have never seen more insufferable people than nurses. imagine a world where being a nurse is hard😂
THANK YOU
@@Cwgrlup I am a nurse, so while I agree with you that our job can be demanding, this could've easily been prevented by simply reading a label and following the basic principles of med administration. It's astonishing that she failed to notice soo many red flags.
Notice how nearly all the nurses support her, so the people in the comments that literally KNOW NOTHING, have no leg to stand on, have some compassion, imagine if a loved one went through a similar situation, you’d support them no matter what.
... probably because they don't want this happening to them
It’s funny how you think calling others out would somehow magically win over things when it won’t.she deserves to go to jail
That won't solve the problem. It's much bigger than this. This will happen again. This has happened. You just don't hear about it.
She should call out the others involved. The general public has no idea why going to hospitals can be dangerous. Nursing homes are another death trap. You have to look beyond the nursing staff to see why.
She owned up to her part. The hospital should as well.
Stfu you literally know nothing you pleb
Can she read? Yes. End of story
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. They all have excuses though. It's always the system that is the problem. It's never them. I looked up both those drugs to see what the vials looked like. It's pretty clear. One reads Vecronium also known as Vec. The other reads Versed/Midazolam which is the sedative. I guess both drugs start with a V so that was confusing for her. Oh, so many drugs that start with a V. She should have given her Valtrex and then the woman wouldn't have had to worry about getting Herpes.
@@lpr5269 research more into the incident, you have one angle
It was an honest mistake,restore her licence
Reckless people are always going against policy & procedure then thinking “ what did I do?” Your consistent recklessness has killed someone! It happened all the time, but shouldn’t be accepted as a “normal” nursing process
I searched vaught for the boys
Hinelander
Nurse GFYS
I don't feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for the victim. The one job the nurse had to do was READ the vials BEFORE she injects something into someone's loved one. May the victim's soul rest in peace 🙏🏽🕊
Finally, someone with logic.
What is your experience with nursing or what goes on in a hospital?
@@aspiecelia1 Are you daft? What kind of a question is that? If you must know my mother was a nurse. That job is not for the lazy. However, there are so many lazy people who go after that profession because it pays well.
@geminirn Excuses, excuses, excuses. Now a family won't be able to spend time with the victim on holidays anymore. And yes I do have a right to call her lazy because that's what she was. My mother saved the life of a little boy whose mother had munchausen syndrome. She was so diligent as a nurse she questioned the mother as to why she had so much medicine from so many doctors for that child. She was also the first person to refuse to give the child medicine that wasn't labeled properly. When the mother was arrested for almost killing her son my mother was the person called to the stand and testified against her. That's because my mother was a good nurse. It only takes a few seconds to read. Especially if you're being paid to do it. And yes there are many people in the nursing industry that became nurses for money and not because it's in their hearts. Those are the ones that tend to get fired for negligence. Or, resign after a long history of negligence is brought to light.
Be careful whem pple fail dont condemn them ......for we all can fail ..jus support and guide ...nwver condemn cus the same thing can happen to u mayb not as a nurse but in one area of your.life.some mistake may cuz u to loose all ....be careful son dony.make stupid comments life will will teach u well and u will be sorry u said that abt that nurse never condemn or.judge
That was not just a med error, but a series of them. Overriding pharmacy was just one of them, and her situation was not like code blue -- until she created a code blue with her mistakes. The RN should have known you never reconstitute versed (injectable Versed NEVER comes in a powder form), and the rubber label warning in red "WARNING PARAZLYZING AGENT" was also missed. The patient was rendered paralyzed, fully conscious and suffocated to death. Oh and you have to do frequent protocol O2 checks and vital signs with versed. Another error. The end result was probation.
Wow. Does she even take it seriously that someone loss there love one because of her. She shouldn't be allowed to be a nurse ever again. She's doing all the tv shows about it. My heart goes out to the family that loss there love one.
She got a slap on the wrist for negligently KILLING someone; a death the victim suffered was horrific. This former so called "nurse" makes me sick!!
pathetic interview - literally pathos
I know I'm gonna take some flak for this but I can't figure out if RaDonda is attractive or not.
Bruh bruh 🗿
good. now sue those that gave remdesivir
nurses need to stop blaming themselves, because its not their faults, and start blaming greedy hospitals and their corporate overlords.
She should be in jail for the rest of her life!!!! That person is gone FOREVER!!!! and she just gets a slap on the hand????
The nurses Should be scared: scared of harming someone. They are in charge of human lives! They need to be careful and vigilant. It's not just any job. This was more than just a mistake: she was careless and indifferent. If's like if someone kills someone while driving impaired. They might feel awful and guilty and apologize, but they still committed a crime. Okay, she wasn't impaired or doing anything illegal, but maybe it should be illegal to be negligent with health care ,- and apparently it is!
The idea of the conviction discouraging reporting of an error makes a little more sense, but good grief: are you really going to not alert someone to a possibly fatal error because you might be held accountable for it? Just have faith. She only got probation. And lost her license. If I were her, I'd have given up my license voluntarily, figuring I was not safe for patients.
This is a gross false equivalency. In a drunk driving situation, it is you who did the drinking and the driving, period. In this situation, the systems errors were what grossly lead to this mistake. First of all, she was assigned to a position that should never exist: a “helper all nurse”, floating to MULTIPLE UNITS in a day as a resource. That shouldn’t even be a thing. You should be a resource to ONE unit only. Second, they gave her a trainee, which is also horrible. You don’t give the FLOAT nurse, let alone a resource nurse someone to train! You don’t have consistent patients in that position and it’s very hectic. Not to mention as a float nurse you’re not normally on that unit. Third, they allowed the medication dispensing system to pull this med on override. No reason to have that. Fourth, continuous cardiac monitoring should have been ordered by the doctor for Versed (midazolam) as it’s used for sedation, not just anxiety. Fifth, the patient was left in a hall without any monitoring. Since she was the float nurse she was sent to do something else and that shouldn’t have been allowed they should have let her stay with the patient.
CMS (centers for Medicare/Medicaid services) investigation pointed out all of these systems errors. I read the report. They did NOT suggest the nurse was negligent which is why the board of nursing did not initially recite her license. They DID review it. Basically, the prosecutor doesn’t understand medicine at ALL and chased a case for clout. They got a jury who understands NOTHING, and the hospital threw her under the bus and covered their tracks. That’s what happened. Yes, she made a huge mistake and I’d probably quit my job and be in therapy for the rest of my life, but it wasn’t all on her.
@@angelaschleuniger5672 Oops, you obviously know TONS more about this nursing and hospital stuff than I do. You win. I'll just stop shooting off my mouth now. Extremely knowledgeable response and still gracious at the end.
This is a serious matter and people be like she's hot!
Seriously? I don't think she's 'hot' at all.
Gross she’s not hot and she’s almost 40
HOT is a temperature. AND she's not pretty- just white.
what BULLSHIT!!!! her incompetent ass DID NOT CONFIRM the damn drug before administering it! that is BASIC training!
And she has a ghetto name
@@ScreamTatumRiley Oh my God. She's almost 40? She should be in an old folks home by now. 😂😂😂
I don't blame her one bit. Humans have the tendency to cut corners when task saturated. Let's analyze the facts. She was working in a unit that she doesn't normally work in. The hospital didn't have basic safety measures that could have easily prevented this from happening.
Orrrrr maybe follow basic principles of healthcare and not override fail-safes?
@@laurastarck Yep. Back to Nursing Fundamentals class: the 5 rights of med administration.
Hey dumb shit don't you think the warning after warning she ignored over and over again was a safety precaution? God Damn you all are fucking idiots
She fucking killed somebody. That’s not a little mistake. That’s a big fucking fatal error.
You wouldn't feel.that way if it was your mom. She should be locked up beyond childbearing years
I worked for 40 years as a Clinical Scientist in a hospital laboratory. On many occasions, reporting an error in test results could have caused harm or even death to a patient. That responsibility is part of the job. I remember one incident while I was working alone on the night shift that I had to crossmatch more than 3 dozen units of blood for a patient that was going to die without it. If I didn't work fast enough or had made even one mistake while under extreme pressure, the patient could have died. The patient survived. But to think that I could have lost my job, my certification, and been prosecuted criminally for a mistake under very stressful conditions makes me afraid for all health care workers who struggle to care for their community under amazingly difficult conditions.
Her dumb Ass didn't follow simple procedures I don't care what your job consists of you don't get to murder people and say well that was just part of the job if you are that damn incompetent your dumb ASS should do something your simple ASS can do
Your story is not the same…period
The RN in this case was not dealing with a life threatening situation. The patient was panicking over the CT scan. Different scenario. You tell the tech to pull the patient out of the machine and sort through how to deal with it. And you have plenty of time to do it.
I make mistakes too as a hospital security guard, I forgot to the turn the lights off to the security kart and it could have resulted in the next shift not being able to use the kart and thus respond on time to a life and death situation.
Completely irrelevant. You say reporting a mistake would cost them their life yet when this mistake was covered up it costed someone their life. You must've been a terrible "clinical scientist". Did you perform "scientific experiments" on people too?
We nurses make errors. But this was a case of blatant negligence. As an RN, I hope everyone realizes that nurses didn’t rally for the patient who died because of negligent nurse, but instead rallied around the nurse who made a series of choices to bypass safeguards. There is no respect for the field anymore, and that consequence has been earned.
It's amazing how Americans pick and choose who to have compassion for. I think the comment section would be very different if this were a black nurse...better yet, a black immigrant nurse.
I agree . It is all about race .
How she was able to access Vecuronium puzzles me?
Call me crazy! Would the public would have shown this kind of mercy had the nurse who mistakenly administered the med was black? She would have been judged, stoned, and jailed! Think about it before y’all come for me!
She should NEVER be allowed to work as a nurse again.
It was more than "just a mistake." There were warnings all over the place that it was the wrong med. Please get all the info.
you have obviously never been a nurse or any kind of healthcare professional, and it shows. So, stay in your lane unless you know what it is like.
Wrong drug errors happen every single day. The system at vanderbilt, requiring overrides for everything, and the fact that there was no scanner in that medication room, lead to the error. She absolutely should have just checked the vial, but in a rush or after a long and busy day, sometimes those checks slip. Usually, you either catch it at some point, or you end up giving a drug that isn't harmful, but still it happens. The only time we hear about it is when something like this happens. And by the way, Vaught only ever got charged after Vandy was facing the possibility of losing their funding from the federal government. Before that. she was only fired and disciplined by the BON. Vanderbilt used the charge to cover up their own wrongdoings.
If everything had happened the way it did, except that Vaught had accidentally given benadryl or something instead of this drug, then we never would have heard about this.
@@jamest5081 I'm an RN so I completely understand there are times when things become hectic and the documentation must be caught up on later; however, there is no excuse for blindly giving IV push meds - especially narcotics such as Versed - without even taking time to read the label. Also, as an experienced nurse, I'm assuming she had given Versed enough times to know that it doesn't require reconstituting (as vecuronium does). Still, no alarm bells in her mind to double check the med? I hate to say it, but this is negligent. I don't think it warranted criminal charges, but for sure worthy of losing her license over.
I mean, maybe she was just very tired and stressed out that it just slipped out of her mind?
Not 100% about the license thing, but glad she didn’t go to jail because I’m pretty confident she didn’t have any malicious intentions.
M0r0n
She had a bad lawyer
what BULLSHIT!!!! her incompetent ass DID NOT CONFIRM the damn drug before administering it! that is BASIC training!
We all make mistakes as humans. But making a mistake when someone's life is in your hands is unacceptable. Sorry, but not taking the time & patience to double check, triple check quadruple check or even checking 5,6,7,8 times to make sure the correct medication is in your hands before it's even administered to the patient. I don't buy it at all. I believe she had evil intent, but played it smart on her behalf by not hiding it and reporting it right away so it wouldn't look sus.
I can’t even imagine how horrified she felt.
Probably could have used her as a nurse in jail. 🤔 Have her in charge of the people that abuse others.
She was so distracted from training the other person she did not scan her patient's id, or the drug or take vitals. Or stay in the room after it was said. It was an awful lot of errors. One after the other...after the other...after the other and so on until she finally killed her patient. Was that hospital standard, because that is horrifying.
if she was colored this would have been a different story, privellaged thats all i can say.
She wouldn't have been a nurse if she was colored... she would've been unemployed collecting food stamps
why it always have to be about race?
Shouldn’t the hospital’s pharmacy have made sure the right drug for the right person was inside that administration system first ?
I'm a three decade RN including ICU and ER, the level of errors made in this case was so negligent I would think this nurse would be hiding from the media. If an ICU nurse doesn't know what Versed is she shouldn't even be in ICU. Of course she was honest because she got caught. Sorry no sympathy here
So why aren't cops treated the same for wrongful death?
This is why nurses don’t report errors. FFFFFffffffff …. Her whole career is over now because of this! As nurses this could be any of us. Did she deserve two felonies??? Absolutely not! She didn’t mean to. This could have been prevented…. Yes! But…. This is why errors will not be reported as much because nobody wants to lose their career.
Are you saying that you are a nurse who will not report if you make an error like that? Oh that's wonderful.
Oh so if someone turns themself in after they murder someone then they should be let go? Not saying she murdered the patient but admitting that you messed up doesn’t make everything ok.
She should have lost her career and been sued in a civil suit along with Vanderbilt. I am speaking as a RN with 19 years experience. She did not deserve jail, but what she did was outrageous. People in Healthcare become complacent and take shortcuts, but to not do 5 checks before adminstering something as strong as "Versed" is beyond ridiculous. This is why so many have lost respect for the nursing profession. If you are precepting and taking those kind of short cuts, then what kind of nurse will the trainee be???
Never fear, there seem to be lots of nurses in the comments section! Or at least, people who know more than nurses without training.
Two felonies for what she did is absolutely ridiculous. It was an honest mistake and she even reported it straight after, wtf and the hospital getting away w this Scott free? Fuck that
Nurses are some of the most honest people on the planet.
Bullcrap..
Lol no they're not
As a nurse I can say it definitely depends on the nurse...
No they're not. I'm a nurse and they can be the worst people too.
She needs to stop smiling in her interviews
It might be nerves as I do the same thing
Yes it’s 100% nerves. People react to trauma and nervousness in different ways. I joke and laugh about my mistakes and tragedy’s because that’s what helps me cope the most.
@@fivesweg “hehehehe I just injected the wrong medicine oops”
I 100% disagree. This was not just a med error, but a series of very idiotic mistakes made by ONE NURSE -- and the victim, 100% helpless, fully aware, suffocated to death. She died a very horrible death. And everybody says ohh poor nurse. I think the verdict was very just and is 100% manslaughter. The nurse was probably some contract nurse working 12 hour shifts seven days a week to rack up big bucks or she was just plain dingy and should never be around patients. And I 100% guarantee all those nurses that "quit" are back at work because they like the money.
You 100% guarantee? That sounds bold. And impossible,
IMO - No wonder doctors and nurses are resigning.
I feel so sorry for her. She’s going to have to live with that for the rest of her life.
And she should because she is a fucking murderer Andy wake the fuck up! She made errors many simple errors not complicated she murdered a person because she is incompetent
@@ronniepeels7468 exactly
Fact: She's only getting leniency because she's a woman.
1:17 oh s i f’ed up