Nurse RaDonda Vaught’s Hearing Testimony
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- UPDATE: RaDonda Vaught was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negligent homicide on March 25, 2022, after a three-day trial. Read the latest coverage from KHN here: khn.org/news/a...
Vaught, a Tennessee nurse, was on trial in a criminal case that has caught the attention of medical professionals across the country. The case involved a medical mistake Vaught made which resulted in a patient's death while she was a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in late December 2017.
Vaught's widely anticipated trial began in Nashville on March 21, 2022. Her case became a rallying cry for nurses and doctors who worry about setting a precedent criminalizing medical mistakes. Many were watching what happened in the courtroom.
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When I was a baby nurse I thought I made a medication error. I reported it immediately. I was distraught. After some investigation it turns out it was a documentation error by the previous shift. My point is…what happened is awful and she should be held accountable. She should lose her license or be remediated with a mark against her license. But she should not be held criminally responsible. Nurses are humans, we are gonna make mistakes. We work long hours, in stressful situations with difficult patients and for corporations that don’t care about the staff or patients. This is complete crap. How is the hospital not responsible? How is a nurse being convicted? Nurses will quit, there won’t be any nurses left and then see how much a hospital will be forced to pay for a travel nurse to even step foot in that place. My heart hurts for this nurse, my heart hurts for the family. And my heart hurts for a profession I love and have dedicated my life to. I’ve missed moments with my family and children with birthdays and holidays I’ll never get back, to take care of someone else’s family. I’ve seen life come in this world and held people’s hands when they left, I’ve prayed with families and been groped and assaulted by patients. Because I’m a nurse and a d@mn good one at that. Lord help us.
She shouldnt go to prison, but she made many critical mistakes. She was negligent and unsafe.. and we cant just ignore that either
I agree, there should be repercussions, but not jail time. This isn't someone going around and dosing people with ivp k+, it's a busy nurse, trying to help other nurses, who made a mistake!
Some times involves more than one person when mistake are made.
@@justbecause951 lic should be revoked not jail
I’ve been an RN for 40 years in the hospital setting. I have only a year or so until retirement. But this is making me reconsider and retire now. It’s time to get out. Because as nurses… we are human, we’re not robots. She made a med error, she didn’t try to cover it up, she has more than paid the price for this error. She is devastated and lives with it every day. Have I made a med error? Yes of course I have. I probably made med errors I don’t even know about. Does it happen often? No it does not. Anyone who is a nurse working inpatient knows what it’s like and unless you have done what we have… you wouldn’t know. Don’t even try. What will jail time do? My god have people gone crazy? My heart goes out to her.
Yeah, why hang around in a profession that's gonna hold you accountable for your negligence, right?
I wonder if you'd feel so forgiving if a truck driver disregarded safety practices and procedures, resulting in death of a family members.
Agree 100% with fancy street. If you haven't experienced nursing you can't know!
@@SubdolphinX Give it a try. Nursing schools recruiting every day!
I’ve definitely made a med error & you’re right, possibly more I didn’t realize. The public thinks they know, but they’re clueless.
@@SubdolphinX Vanderbilt currently has over 100 RN positions available. About half are offering $15-$20k signing bonuses. Apply, I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to hire you. 😀😂
my heart goes to this nurse... i am a nurse as well and this could have been any of us... we are humans and always prone to mistakes... we are stressed , understaffed... and always prone to committing a mistake. I pray to bless all nurses with wisdom and guidance as we all perform our mission to take care of the sick...
really???!!! WHY! SHE DID NOT EVEN READ THE DRUG THAT SHE GAVE. SHE MADE A SERIES!!! MULTIPLE ERRORS BY BEING INCOMPETENT THAT KILLED! SOMEBODY THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE HOME! b/c shes white she gets the sympathy
I worked at a hospital where a nurse gave an overdose of epinephrine and the patient died. The doctor had ordered the dose given. She was an ICU nurse helping in the ED. She confirmed with the doctor before giving it. She was so distraught she ended up committing suicide. I think the guilt you have to live with is enough. This nurse on trial already lost her license and has to live with this the rest of her life. What is throwing her in jail going to prove? I think it’s terrible this happened but I think we need to hold the hospital accountable as well. Why are they not on trial? How overworked was she? What else was she dealing with at the time? When we continue to look at the individual and not the systemic problems for why these things occur they will continue to happen.
Vanderbilt hospital is working to suppress all information from the trial related to like incidents and damages paid out. They have a lot of money to potentially lose and fighting with all their power and influence. She is the scapegoat plain and simple.
You wont even get the hospital at fault, any question about why or how will never get answered. So many court cases can be made against the hospital or even patients for harrasment and abuse. But the hospital always tells nurses to shut up about it. Hospitals don't care about nurses at all, they only see them as a NPC going door to door listening to whatever administration has to say
Only cops are allowed to mistakenly kill somebody
Actually, the BON cleared her. It was not until the hospital was reported and realized they had no scanner working, understaffed, and forcing a nurse to operate beyond training, that THEY elected to blame her, the nurse doing a favor for another, without the proper training or equipment, instead of accepting responsibility at the management level. EVERY SINGLE TIME I have said NO to unsafe staffing or ratios or being asked to do something I did not have training for, or questioned an erroneous or unsafe order, I have been told good catch and then told I am too argumentative. Not every nurse had the backbone or experience to say no, I won't do that. Some are fired if they do.
Exactly! Im a LPN. I got 7 patients at 0645. The RN's got 3 or 4 because they had to cover one of mine. The hospital send planners around at 0900 to see how fast they can discharge. I was still assessing, getting vs, meds, accu ck, ect ect. It was horrible! The call lights, IV beeping, phone calls, procedures, prepping patients for surgery, paper work, Now you have to get meds from the machines, one pill at a time! It was 2 to 3 hrs trying to do that.. Nurses in line waiting their turn. The hospital made it hard! I would not recommend nursing to anyone
This is so painful to listen to. My heart hurts for this nurse.😥
As a nurse I really feel for this nurse. This could be any of us, my prayers for both families 🙏🙏🙏
@@realdeal8059 everyone follows policy, but unfortunately error is to human🙏
She was seen smirking and smiling a lot during her trial, Makes you wonder. Tons of cases when nurses do this to patients on purpose. Especially at nursing homes. I'm glad she Is being held accountable. She got what she deserves
No, it couldn’t be any of us. Not all of us are this careless. Don’t group us all at this level.
@@mightyoaks80 i think she is or was just making facial gestures out of thoughts/nervousness/fear ect. That's all. My goodness.
@@teresaterezia7982 keep telling yourself that. Lol
The bypassing of controls is a management rationalization. It’s accountability is from the TOP down. She should not be the only one held responsible for this. But she is definitely responsible for choosing to continue in the rationalization that bypassing the warnings was ok to do.
Yes, it sounds like she disregarded the warnings. Maybe she had what is being called "warning fatigue."
Hospitals are just like any corporation, except they are in the business of life or death. They don't care. They'll work nurses to death, and mark up services 500% because several million in profits isn't enough. I work for a company that let 20% of their trained work force go via separation and retirement when they closed all local offices, because employees couldn't move to their shiney new building down south. Three years later, my company "changed their mind" and are now offering a referral bonus, begging retired employees to come back, and hiring people to work remotely. This happened before COVID. Now it's worse. My point: When my company does it, a customer is on hold too long and has to wait longer for their claim to be paid. When a hospital does it, someone dies. THEY DON"T CARE. Millions paid to hospital CEO but it took Vanderbilt years to clear up their "medicine cabinet" problem?
That’s y u go agency the money u make with agency u only really have to work 6 months out the yr
My heart is shattered that poor woman is already living with the guilt. Now she is criminally being charged it breaks my heart and screw whoever put in that tip they are disgusting to do that to a fellow nurse.
The hospital tried to cover it up. She didn’t read the bottle. I don’t think she should be charged but she should lose her license
You feel more sorry for her but made no mention of the family who lost a loved one or of the woman who had to suffer for no reason because of her mistake. Her guilt is her REALIZING her mistake. That does not bring JUSTICE to the family or the innocent victim of her actions.
Your comment is a perfect example of the heartless disregard for patient safety, so prevalent in this industry.
@@haileygoofy8454 Agreed. I think a lot of the folks on this thread are conflating corporations who overwork and understaff their hospitals with the emotional devastation of the convicted nurse. Hospital systems are just plain evil and hide errors every day. Until we strengthen legislation pharmacy safety, this will continue to occur.
If our congress were useful, they'd mandate pharmacy safety technology, but of course, automated dispensing equipment would be too expensive, and the hospital systems are a powerful lobby. Rotten to the core, and poor families pay the price.
I got out of nsg after 38yrs due to Covid. Im so glad. This is BS
Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one.
I’m a nurse & I feel so bad for this woman. To send a nurse to jail knowing there was NO criminal intent is crazy
Mistakes don't remove accountability
@@jamesartis2031 no they don’t. But charging her for a crime isn’t the answer. She should lose her license. The family should sue her. But putting her in prison for a mistake that most people will never even understand unless they’re a nurse and work in a hospital is complete bull. She wasn’t taking drugs or impaired, she had no ill intent and reported it immediately. It was a medication error.
Agreed. She didn't wake up in the morning and think I'm gonna kill a patient today. What are people not getting about this?
No body should be punished criminally and sent to jail for an accident. NOBODY! Jail and prison should be meant for violent people who commit serious crimes or purposefully harm others. Not a damn nurse who made a mistake! This enrages me.
@@TrueCrimeJade 💯
I want to see ICN take on this. this has me so emotionally unsettled. two fold, yes they are checks and balances that must be made but is it so black and white. I WANT NURSES TO STAND TO ASS UP ALL OVER THE WORLD AND STOP WORKING WITH INADEQUATE RATIOS, WORKING UNDERSTAFFFED, EMPLOYING THE Cadear mentality because yes a mistake was made but I always say, when the shit hits the fan the nurse is always left with the nastiness
This sucks cause there has been many times during a rapid response where My override permissios didn't include Ativan for seizures, Cardizem for afib rvr, or even nitro for chest pain. The system is flawed.
Gotta read the label, dear.
If she gets jail time, I'm walking. Medication errors happen. If she goes to jail, I'm out of the job after 25 years. The public has ZERO clue what it's like to work in nursing. They have zero clue what it's like to work on the floor!! We don't get up in the morning intending to kill someone, we get up in the morning and pray we don't. Everyday. I feel so so sorry that this happened to this lady, and I feel so much for her family. She went into a hospital and didn't come back out. But this should never have gone so far. Witch hunt!! Shame on those who dragged this to court.
Bye. She didn’t read a label and pay enough attention to realize it said “PARALYZING AGENT”. That’s not alarm fatigue. That is not an excuse. That is exactly what she was charged with. Reckless homicide. That woman died being unable to breathe because of her inattentive actions.
Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one.
@@k.b.6498 right. Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one. I was an ICU nurse before becoming an NP. When she overrode the accudose she should have verified what she pulled
@@jamesartis2031 or when she was reconstituting the vec (never done that with versed), or before she drew it up. Any of the times she had to focus on the rubber stopper that had “paralyzing agent” written around it.
Or maybe the hospital should have had a working system. Or a scanner in the area she was working in. Maybe the hospital should have reported it when it happened the same way the nurse did. Maybe the hospital should have put her cause of death instead of listing “natural causes”. Or not load nurses up with more patients than what is safe. No one said she isn’t guilty of unprofessional conduct or of making an error. Every nurse is capable of making a mistake, maybe not like this, but a mistake none the less. She’s unsafe to practice but it was an accident and she is no risk to the public without a license.
This had been my biggest fear while being a Nurse my entire career, is that this could happen to me, even when you follow what you’ve been taught to do to prevent medical errors. The medical institutions don’t give a shit that the added stresses they slam on nurses who are ready working in a high stressful areas ads to events like this happening! Having to report near misses & errors by others has freaked me out that when you are acting human, errors can happen! They are mistakes & never done on purpose. If I did my job as a nurse like so many people do in the fast food industry, I’d have patient's dropping left & right! No matter what work you do, when you are stressed you can not function @ a top capacity & not eventually make an error. I for one after 27 years decided to step away from nursing before I could make a mistake & cost someone their life. I can’t handle the terrible stresses anymore that the majority of medical institutions place on nurses. And it is so they can picket more dollars! It’s all financially driven! Never should a nurse have to go through what this nurse is going through. It is all 100% preventable! Hold the medical institutions 100% accountable for their negligence in managing their employees!
In most instances, after a sentinal event, a review of the process is conducted, and a solution to whatever is broken in the system is found and enacted. The process was broken, and people generally aren't. There are so many things that could have been targeted in the process, rather than the nurse. And this is a scary precedent for the system.
The hospital failed to document and report not only within their system, but to the state as well.. random tip to board took her license and then it moved to prosecutors office...
What medical mistake? She deliberately overrode the system and admitted negligence.
If you all think there's a nursing shortage now just wait and see what happens if she's convicted of murder. Her assignment was unsafe from the beginning. The system was not in place for safety. On and on. I wouldn't step foot back into active practice if mistakes could put you in prison! Her employer failed her. Review all the facts before you come for me!
I agree
She didn’t READ the bottle. Simple do I think she should be charged no
@@ashleelalasmith2792 exactly. No one is disputing that she made multiple serious errors but murder, I don't think so
@@brendaklingelsmith6008 exactly
She was a help all that shift...... she didn't even have patients
The jury should feel ashamed of themselves, and it sickens me that there was a nurse on the jury. This woman did not wake up and say “oh I think I am going to kill a patient today” WHY ARE WE SENDING PEOPLE TO PRISON FOR AN ACCIDENT? This is sickening!
Vaught admitted negligence to the nursing board. A nurse doesn’t act negligently by accident. It’s a deliberate choice to be negligent.
Drunk drivers don't set out to kill people either. 🤦♀️
An accident doesn’t make a person innocent. I’ll apply your logic next time I hear someone die in a car accident. Why should the driver get in trouble? It was an ACCIDENT
This is terrible, she will suffer for this mistake the rest of her life. To criminalize her mistake is incredibly harsh
Yeah, its only a patient, huh?
Someone is dead, she made a mistake and should be held accountable. Her remorse should be taken into account, but she will have the rest of her life to come to terms with her actions, her patient will not have that time. Her patient is dead.
Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one.
May God help her.... As a Nurse it makes me personally to look and share the importance of such negligence . It happens for anyone of us
Let’s pray for all of us AMEN
And this is yet ANOTHER reason why I'm leaving bedside hospital nursing for good, GW. 🙏
Really? Are they really trying to put this woman in jail? 2 years of a horrible pandemic nurses just went through, and this is how we treat them?! Btw, I’m not even a nurse. I’m sorry for the victim and the family, and I’m sorry for this woman. She does not deserve jail time. Nurses are burnt out. They’re human too. There’s no malice in this case.
There doesn’t need to be. “Negligence” in American criminal law requires only that a certain standard of care in a hazardous activity wasn’t met. This case is an analogue to the vehicular homicide charges that sometimes beset drivers when a traffic violation, say an improper lane change, results in a fatal accident. We all commit these violations on occasion with no evil intent in our hearts; the lane changes are second nature after years of driving, so our vigilance inevitably wanes-until one day there’s a bike in our blind spot.
Usually the drivers in such accidents are just ticketed if sober and otherwise attentive. But prosecutors will pick one every now and then, to send to prison-by way of sending a message to the rest. No, I don’t like to see this nurse going down for a medication error when nurses in hospitals spend all day giving out meds. I’m sure it really was free of malice. But the lack of intent to harm only shields us from murder charges, not the lesser crimes in the negligence category.
@@jessebaker3099 Well said. Thanks for the explanation.
@@jessebaker3099 I'll bet she had a shitty defense attorney. Vanderbilt has deeper pockets.
I hope and pray she isn't charged.
Having read Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment people often suffer internally from the crimes they commit. No less from accidents.
This nurse doesn't look to have had done so with any premeditated intent.
I will stand behind her. I believe in God. I believe all things happen by His will.
She was convicted recently. It wasn't premeditated so it's manslaughter. She is indeed suffering internally, as evidenced by her police interview.
@@Kinypshun that's sad. The law doesn't do justice to anyone.
@@kirkdennis830 they did do justice in this case. She fucked up on Nursing 100 level skills. She didn't get the right drug, right dose, or right time. She got the right patient and route. On top of those errors, she didn't read the top of the vial that said "warning paralytic agent". The prosecution laid out a total of 10 mistakes she made. Justice was served. The fact that so many nurses are defending her is ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
@@k.b.6498 no they didn't. This was unintentional. It wasn't intentionally done. Sorry but prisons dont do justice. Read some Fyodor Dostoevsky.
@@kirkdennis830 she was convicted of reckless homicide. One of the elements of the charge is no intent to do harm. I don’t need to read some Russian novel. This woman killed somebody with her reckless actions and this is the appropriate charge. Why does that fiction novel apply at all to this situation? It has no bearing on the errors (plural) that she made that landed her this conviction.
Wait so she prescribed the wrong thing to someone and they died because of it?
She did not prescribe she administered
There are mistakes and then there is criminal negligence. Her own words clearly show why she was prosecuted.
As a nurse of 16 years there’s zero excuse for what she did. She committed a cardinal nursing sin and that was administering a medication that she didn’t know about. Also even IF she thought she was administering Versed rather than Vec, the patient should have been on a monitor and her life would’ve been saved. She deserves more than just having her license stripped. That patient died a horrible and terrifying death, the worst I can even imagine. Imagine suffocating without being able to move or speak but being fully aware of it. LaDonda is an embarrassment to my profession. Now, that being said… the hospital should be sued into oblivion for not ensuring competence of their nurses. I’m baffled that someone wouldn’t know the difference between Versed and Vecuronium. They’re not even remotely similar. One has to be reconstituted. And again, no matter what the patient should have been on a monitor when receiving EITHER medication so there’s zero excuse for this event. It’s like a mother driving to the grocery store with her baby’s car seat on the hood of the car and not expecting criminal charges to come of it.
Have you read the entire CMS report, or listened to the whole trial/know all the facts? Should the doctor who ordered the patient to go to scan unmonitored be on trial too?
@@triagecallx3868 the nurse is the one that administered the wrong medication so why would the doctor be charged with negligence lol. You people are really reaching! The nurse alone is responsible for killing the patient. She gave the wrong medication. Nobody else did that. SHE DID. There’s no excuse for it. It is incomprehensible to me that any nurse would defend this and quite frankly this is why nobody takes our profession seriously.
@@triagecallx3868 unmonotored is not tbe same as not assessing the patient. Who gives Versed and not assess the pt afterwards? She left the pt there when she had an orientee with her. What a great way to teach new nurses.
Having worked as a Registered Nurse in acute care settings for over two decades I am left with many questions about the setting in which the patient died. Was there no monitoring of the patient after the administration of what was thought to be Versed??? Was there no pulse oximeter on the patient to alert the attending staff that their patient had stopped breathing? I'm guessing that Ms. Vaught returned to her other patients and was not charged with monitoring the patient during her scan? To me, this seems like pinning the blame on the low hanging fruit, in this case, that is the nurse, who was certainly at fault, for giving the wrong medication, but this is, potentially, letting the hospital off of the hook for not having the patient properly monitored during the scan.
Whether or not hospital policy provides, it’s up to the licensed professional to protect their license and reputation. An RN, by SOC, who is administering a benzo to an elderly patient ought to confirm pt condition. It’s that RN whose name is on the MAR, and therefore his/her responsibility. Who gives elderly patients benzodiazepines without O2 monitoring AT THE MINIMUM? That said, I’ve seen it...but my position is that it’s unacceptable behavior for so-called RNs.
@@yablabo well, I think we can all agree that this behavior should be considered unacceptable.
She was convicted of Negligent Homicide and faces up to 6 years in jail. They played back her own testimony in court and used it to convict her.. Not sure if she has kids who will grow up without a mother.
Sorry guilty. I'm 30 years in ICU nursing and when it comes to meds , there's no justification ( bells , alarms etc) for not checking with your eyes before administration of a what she belived to be a narcotic ( turned out to be a paralytic). If you are tired or overwhelmed get the charge nurse to assist. You killed a patient. Guilty 😔
You’ve been an ICU nurse for 30 years and you don’t know that Versed isn’t a narcotic? I call bullshit that you’ve never made a mistake (if you are a nurse at all).
@@triagecallx3868 if you're speaking of me it's your skills of critical thinking that are off. READ PLEASE The NURSE IN QUESTION BELIEVED IT WAS versed which is a sedative that is kept with other locked and counted narcotics. The nurse did not use due diligence in making sure she was giving the correct dose and drug period. No excuses. And yes, I am a skilled and accomplished BSN with over 30 years of experience. Knowledge and experience. Your ignorance, arrogance and belligerent language makes me question what kind of work you do if any. I never killed anyone and have not made med errors. If you are a nurse your telling on yourself. Hope to never come across you as a Healthcare provider.
Thank you for this comment. Too many nurses are on here defending what she did. I would rather have a nurse like you taking care of me instead of one that thinks what she did was a simple error. I’m not a nurse but my husband is. He also agrees with you that this was gross negligence.
Heart breaking
These RN’s think too highly of themselves. She overrode the drug and it wasn’t even a code situation or anything. Glad she’s going to jail.
I feel she should not be criminally charged!! This is insane.
As a person who is allergic to depolarizing muscle relaxants producing malignant hypothermia I have to say some punishment might be helpful but probably not. I was given succinylcholine a second time counter to warnings. Lucky to be alive.
What if it was you or a family member that died. Always have to be checking. Lets hope this makes other health care professional take that extra time to double check. Hopefully something good comes out of this. Sad for everyone.
I agree nobody wants their family in this situation but This nurse does not deserve to be in prison. Insanity
As a nurse… my heart hurts for her 🙁🥺🥺🥺🙁🥺
Bad employer. Vanderbilt is not a good company to work at. Better to keep away from this hospital. It doesn't care about its employees as well as its patients.
12 years in prison that's really too much, some child rapists get less or even murderers so hopefully it won't happen, losing license and guilt is already painful enough. I am just wondering how she ended up giving it after all those warnings. It says the system sent like 5 alarms about paralytic agent before throwing it out so how can you ignore 5 alerts? Also like it said there was a big label with the same warning and the fact itself that it was powdered which really very few meds comes in a powder.
apparently the vial wasn’t labeled paralytic agent at the time. NOW it is but when she pulled it… from what i’ve read it said it wasn’t labeled this. obviously tho the drug name was on it.
I was sexually abused by my dad my entire life and he got 4 years.
As a person, MY HEART HURTS FOR THE FAMILY OF THE PATIENT WHO NEEDLESSLY DIED!!!!
Then glad you respect their request that SHE NOT BE CHARGED with any crime after they knew all the facts that you do not.
@@hunger4jsutice They sure took that settlement though.
Just because her kids didn't care doesn't mean nobody else does.
This was not a single mistake, but a series of mistakes and oversights.
We've heard for years that 100,000 Americans are killed every year by medical mistakes. Johns Hopkins University says that number is likely as high as 250,000.
And keep in mind that this case is unusual in that, for whatever reason, information on this incident was markedly forthcoming, compared to the typical secrecy and denial around medical mistakes. A legacy that saw incompetents and even "Death Angels" moving from hospital to hospital, unimpeded, as coworkers and even employers looked the other way.
This is an industry that for years bragged that forcing practitioners to make critical life and death decisions, while extremely sleep-deprived, somehow made them better, more competent.
(Imagine applying that same warped concept to young truck drivers or air traffic controllers!)
truck drivers are sleep deprived, but we aren't making life crital decisions. We hold a wheel straight while the empty highway and the occasional car passes us in our comfy AC controlled little room. Trucking is a dream compared to how hard nurses work
Always follow POLICY
...NEVER DEFAULT FROM POLICY.
THAT IS CAUSES PATIENT INJURY/DEATHS
This is so sad.
The hospital can and should be held responsible!!
What is damning for her is how she is saying what happened. When the prosecutor asked did she notice the words ‘ paralyzing agent’ on the top of the cap. She responded: “If it was there, I did not acknowledge it…” how she explained herself sounds like negligence.
She should’ve said something along the lines of, “when the medication was override to dispense, there should be more protocols for a second nurse to verify medication.” Or something along the lines of increasing safety procedures. This is a sad story and is a fearful reminded to all nurses.
She actually did complete four overrides before the “override to dispense” and at each override there was a great big warning that she didn’t care to respond to appropriately. She indeed committed grand negligence.
What is going on in America lately with prosecuting these ridiculous cases to begin with. She made a mistake. Is it horrible? Yes! Did she do it on purpose and deserve to be punished more than she already has? Not one bit. It’s like the one doctor they’re going after who worked in hospice care and some of his patients died from the strong medicine he gave them to ease their pain since they were literally on their death beds. Sorry but I think any sane person would agree on what state they’d rather be in if they’re suffering and dying
Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one!
Seriously? This woman was fully conscious and aware that she was paralyzed and couldn't breathe. It's a terrifying way to die. The nurse was the one holding the needle and all her regret can't bring her victim back.
Yup about to change my job
No ur not. Stop lying. U not going anywhere . Look Mistakes don't remove accountability. Someone lost a love one.
@ artist. Exactly! Im a nurse. I'm aware that mistakes and errors can happen. But damn..that was on a whole other level. She ignored several warnings and still mixed something she had no clue she was mixing
What’s weird, the order for the mild sedative was never verified or documented other than verbally. So did the doc say use this mild sedative, and overuse pulled something a med that had no actual verification?
I am just puzzled, if she is intended to draw a Versed (midazolam) from the machine, we need another nurse' fingerprint as witness for the machine to open for a regulated drug... she didn't wonder why it opened without a witness?
This is so sad, i knew she was just trying to help a fellow nurse, she had a good intention but it came out to be a bad outcome.
I will be praying for you and all of our fellow nurses out there..
During Pandemic they were all calling us HEROES, now we are standing on trial courts.
Vanderbilt hospital and their incomplete system did this to her, I hope DaRonda sues. I hope we can find a way to end gag orders on the families of these victims. Settlements should never come with silence, their information is valuable. Their story is valuables and their’s to own.
it sees here how the staff nurse were also in threatened by understaffing. it wasnt her patient . her fault was to recieve the call to cater someone whom it wasnt on her care. she was called just to prepare a drug. it was also the fault of the nurse who recieved the medication to also checked it first of five rights. it was also the fault of the hospital because they pull out someone just to satisfy the understaffing. it was also unfair for radonda to received all the charges and blame that at first the management is accountable that errors like this might occur because of their negligence to provide a right ratios of nurses. if there is someone there knowledgeable, then radonda doesnt have to be called from the er to the ct scan just to prepare and give meds. she being honest enough to report is well taken . she knew what she have done and i think she still deserve a second chance
HOW COME YOU DID NOT DO THE 5 RIGHTS.WHY DID YOU PICK A MED WITH A DIFFERENT NAME.WHY DID YOU GIVE A MED YOU DIDNT LOOK UP? SORRY BUT YOU ARE AT FAULT.YOU GAVE THE WRONG DRUG THAT KILLED THAT LADY.
I'm a nurse and I have mixed feelings about this.. if the Pyxis unit flagged this drug and she chose to ignore the warning because they just get so many pop ups (I saw this theory on another site)....I dont know how you get away from that. But the punishment does seem extreme..
Tragic all around.
Ask yourself this: If this was a doctor would you be as outraged?
At what point does accountability (and credibility) go completely out the window? At the expense of an innocent life nontheless
Shove your egos...
Give the right medicine, don't go to jail. Simple
Time to get a sweet $20 an hour job at Costco and ditch nursing all together.
This is bullshit. Can't believe she was found guilty. Time to start the petitions
They need to put the medications and injections from needles responsibility on the doctors only
They are the ones prescribing the medications
Why leave the responsibility up to a nurse
This is just another way to take the responsibility from the Dame doctor who only spends 5 minutes with each patient
An making millions of dollars each year
This has to stop !
The nurses are already streess out working
10 hours an more.
The Dame doctors has to take back their own responsibility an quit passing their jobs to nurse's !
@Waitaminute no it's clearly you are on the side of the lazy overpaid doctors
Who leaves every thing to the nurses
The nurses now does the jobs of the doctors.
Just another liability the doctors are passing on to the nurses so if the nurse screws up they get blame an sue.
Just as this nurse now is getting blamed for murder.
Waitaminute what part of the process do you partake in? And what’s your rebuttal? Just curious.
This case reminds me of the Kim Potter trial. So sad
How?
i thought so too.
She didn’t kill her on purpose! These nurses are under so much stress as it is. We are not JESUS so therefore we’re not perfect. It was a mistake GOD already forgave her ❤️ praying for both sides !