Nurse Charged With Homicide

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  1. Should Radonda Vaught, the nurse who gave a lethal dose of Vecuronium to patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, be charged with reckless homicide?

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Radonda Vaught, a 35 year old nurse who worked at the University of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide. Read Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium

Radonda is the nurse who mistakenly gave Vecuronium (a paralytic) to a patient instead of Versed. The patient died.

On 2/24/2019 at 11:54 AM, Emergent said:

Yeah, the problem was, there were no consequences for Vaught. The BON was too busy suspending the licenses of nurses behind on their student loans to worry about the utter carelessness and negligence of Ms Vaught.

Do you know this for a fact or is this an assumption? Let’s stick to the facts

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1 hour ago, Wuzzie said:

If you do your job right there is nothing to be sad about. If you practice well below the standards to which we are bound then yes, you will be crying into your beer...a lot.

Where do you work that you are able to do your job100%? I truly would like to know. I have nurses in texas 25 years and the last 5 have been horrible. There hasn’t been one day I have been able to do my job by the book. The lack of help, resources and support puts me In Jeopardy daily. I have been pushed out of 3 jobs for speaking up on unsafe practice, leadership falsifying records and policy violations. Some of the orders doctors enter, treatments ordered, procedures ordered puts patients in jeopardy daily. Nurses are pulled in too many directions, caring for too many patients and we only have 2 eyes and 2 hands. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with every aspect of this case. I do not discount the error nor do other nurses the issue is NOTHING is being done to the people who violated regulations who sit behind the desks. Nothing is being done to the Doc who falsified the death certificate and failed to tell the ME this was a medication error. ALOT of people violated the law but only the nurse is being punished. How does that seem ok to you? Every patient in that hospital is still at risk because all those liars and people who cover up errors are still there. The Nurse was the single solitAry only one who was transparent.

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1 hour ago, studentnurseASN said:

After seeing experiences like these, I do think about what actions could jeopardize my own license. It makes me sad to think about what nurses face when caring for their patients.

IT IS HORRIBLE! Bedside/floor nursing is horrible. The care of patients is not the goal. The goal is move them in move them out and get the money!

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I strongly agree with responsibility uplito administrators and supervisors. Nurses have long lived with work overload and extended days and months of untold stress and it has taken extraordinary effort by nurse unions to get admnistration to decrease nurse/patient ratios even a little bit. We need rapid improvements in that area.

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2 minutes ago, Dsmcrn said:

I encourage you to familiarize yourself with every aspect of this case.

I have and I hope you don't practice as RV did or you will kill a patient too.

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17 minutes ago, Dsmcrn said:

What we NURSES are saying is BE CONSISTENT, we either charge everyone or we charge no one.

I don't believe anyone here has said otherwise.

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4 minutes ago, Wuzzie said:

I have and I hope you don't practice as RV did or you will kill a patient too.

I hope you continue to be privileged in your career and never define yourself in such working conditions as many of us do in our states.

You scare me me more than RaDonda because you are so confident this would NEVER happen to you.

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6 minutes ago, lindahartford said:

I strongly agree with responsibility uplito administrators and supervisors. Nurses have long lived with work overload and extended days and months of untold stress and it has taken extraordinary effort by nurse unions to get admnistration to decrease nurse/patient ratios even a little bit. We need rapid improvements in that area.

YESSSSSSSSS!

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6 minutes ago, Wuzzie said:

I don't believe anyone here has said otherwise.

I haven’t seen anywhere where there is mention of all the other healthcare workers should receive punishment. If it is somewhere in the comments my apologies. I don’t see it which is why I spoke up.

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On 2/5/2019 at 9:16 PM, FolksBtrippin said:

If I had known that this was possible, I would not have become a nurse.

In nursing school we went over a case, where the nurse gave a med by the wrong route, which ended up in the patient's death. Not only did she not get falsely charged with murder, but she kept her license, she kept her job, and became a champion of prevention in the hospital.

I agree with you. There is a difference between honest mistake and recklessness.

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16 minutes ago, Dsmcrn said:

If it is somewhere in the comments my apologies. I don’t see it which is why I spoke up.

There are several very long threads about this topic and it has been discussed as well.

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2 hours ago, hppygr8ful said:

Not necessarily true. Dr.'s do go to prison for Criminal negligence if found guilty in court. I know of at least 1 who is currently in prison. But you make a good point about malpractice insurance. If the nurse in question had her own malpractice insurance she wouldn't have had to crowd fund for her legal fees.

I have carried a million dollar rider for malpractice since I was in nursing school. It's really not that expensive and well worth it. I know if something occurs My house and every other thing I have is protected and I'll get top legal representation.

Hppy

No insurance covers criminal matters.

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