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Having heard her speak at a conference she broke down the timeline of what happened and seemed to only have remorse about choosing nursing. One thing she admitted that I had not heard previously, was she took the vials up to the unit the patient had come from to hand off to her primary nurse to document for her administration. Some of the student nurses at the conference there looked at her in awe, as someone to admire with great courage. As an experienced nurse, I could not help but see all of the red flags and multiple lapses in judgement she had that shift. I did read somewhere that she left her first job in a rural hospital because she thought their practices were unsafe.

This. It is interesting to hear that she left a smaller facility that she felt was unsafe, but went on to make a fatal error in one she deemed a better environment.

It is my understanding that she was not truthful and did not show remorse.

I've always felt that her story would be valuable for the students to hear, but envisioned it to be in a manner in which she gave back to the nursing community. It is one thing to be reimbursed travel and lodging, but a motivational speaker charging up to $10000?

RaDonda Vaught | (ce21.com)

https://www.texasnurses.org/page/GainingTraction

She will be speaking at the TNA event in May.

The local government hospital gave a raise for all clinic positions bringing them up to the salary of bedside nurses. Granted this is federal so they get multiple holidays a year and of course there is no shift differential but they do not do evenings, nights, or weekends. This led to several bedside nurses leaving to the clinics and now there is a shortage on the units of nurses with experience. Of course this is now being filled by the nurses coming from the long term care environment and great opportunities for new grads. It is definitely a unique time to be an RN and it does not make sense as to why they don't value those who stayed thru it all.

I am grateful that nursing has included awareness for depression and PTSD for our soldiers. A specialized population that we have the privilege to serve. At work, morale is down, call outs are high, and they probably share several of the aforementioned symptoms.

CNN is all I needed to see.

Thanks for the feedback. There is always verbal consent on everything we do, if it is feasible. I am looking to hear how others are doing it to determine if it is worth looking into a possible policy change down the line. I have only been at this system a year, the previous place I mentioned was in another state 8 years ago. Basically in 10 years of nursing, I have yet to give it , but recently had a patient needing it.

Currently at our facility there is not a need to obtain a consent for IVIG. As this is made from over a 1000 seperate donor's blood products, and has a potential in causing a reaction in up to 30% of the population, is this current practice? I distinctly remember there being a place on the Blood Administration Consent for Immunoglobulin (IVIG), that you could select. Thanks for any input, most of the information I am finding is for other countries.

Thanks for the input!

If possible @ [email protected]. I understand the frustration with trying to make changes, but I am getting the hang of it!

Nursing Students reported that a nurse drawing insulin for a client, had removed one unit too much, therefore they re injected the needle into the vial and returned it. I am trying to link to a site or article that shows best practice. Our conversation did talk about the possibility of cross-contamination, how insulin should be properly disposed of, and the dulling of the needle. As this is only one unit and I have seen nurses just eject it out of the syringe (not place it back into the vial). How have you seen it done at your facility for 1,3,or 5 units? Is it written in a hospital policy. I will reference the CDC's drawing up medication policy when we revisit this topic.