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  1. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    That's neither accurate nor is it an olive branch. Ill keep posting on this thread as I see fit. You're welcome to respond or not. And if I think you're making unfair or unreasonable insinuations, I...

  2. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    This site is far more likely to be a representative sample of nurses than a comments section on RVs gofundme. I already explained why. And right now we have no other actual data points to compare....

  3. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    If they represent a relatively obscure minority of nurses' views on the matter, why are we worrying about how the ethical/accountability standards of nurses as whole are declining? Or did you not...

  4. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Fair enough, but there's an obvious kind of self-selection problem with taking the comments on her gofundme page as representative. That's a bit like claiming that its a popular opinion that...

  5. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    I don't think that's a commonly argued point of view in this thread. The most common argument here has been between those who think RV should be prosecuted with felony charges and possibly locked in a...

  6. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    First a disclaimer: I'm no legal expert. I think you might have mentioned something along these lines at some point already, but aside from the fate of RV in particular, there is something else that...

  7. RN in Medical School -Should I keep this to myself?

    Cowboyardee replied to RNthenDoc's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats. Basically, don't be weird about it. Don't hide your background like you're ashamed of it or scared of your new colleagues; and don't walk around with an RN sign on your back like you expect...

  8. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    That's "hospitals." Granted, a few examples don't make a rule. But given my recent and current experience in med surg and critical care in several states, I'd guess that these kinds of prompts and...

  9. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Sure thing. Now if you'll either kindly concede that overriding Tylenol can prompt the same number and types of warnings from a pyxis or else explain that I'm lying about this, we can happily drop...

  10. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    My first post on the subject described the whole

  11. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    I did. And I described those screens accurately in my first post on the subject. One override screen along with the subsequent select a reason screen, which happens with absolutely any non-profile...

  12. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Nope right back at you. The warning windows are merely colored writing added to the standard screens you see when you pull a med. They are standard issue for an ever-increasing number of medications...

  13. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Thats a good point. Its probaly worth discussing. Per the TBI report, each screen in the dispenser warned that vec was a paralytic. This is about what I would expect. She clearly didn't read these...

  14. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    I don't mean to indict the TBI - as you said, they have their protocols and their own jobs to do. I only mean to say that I think it unwise to put much weight on a few statements out of context that a...

  15. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    You may be using "hostile" differently than I am. I'm not trying to imply this was a TV-style interrogation with raised voices, harsh lighting, deliberate intimidation, tearful confessions and so on....

  16. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    I don't know for certain. However, bureaucracies in general and the justice system in particular tend to lean that way in dealing with suspects of a crime. Frankly, the fact that the report lists only...

  17. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    You're probably right across the board. Heck, ultimately you could even see incompetence as a kind of carelessness in its own right - if you're working in a role independently and even *gulp* training...

  18. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    I don't think the difference is mere semantics at all. There's quite a gulf between what statements a hostile interrogator might get a suspect to agree to and how they would decribe the same...

  19. Condescension from Critical Care Nurses Towards Med-Surg Nurses

    Cowboyardee replied to SkittlesMcRainbowbutt's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Can't really speak for GSD, but take note which part of my post GSD bolded. Some situations are just plain frustrating in the medical field, and it would be nice if we could all do a couple things...

  20. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Kindly humor me with a page number. To the best of my reading, the CMS report contains none of that information. It does, however, contain a number RV quotes, including her claiming never to have been...

  21. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    So what's your contention - that she suspected something was wrong but gave the medication anyway and wandered off? This is a nurse who... A) did not recognize midazolam as versed in the profile B)...

  22. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Different schools teach different numbers of 'rights.' It's basically a mnemonic, and it varies based on who is teaching it. I don't think anyone would argue that RV practiced safely and competently....

  23. Condescension from Critical Care Nurses Towards Med-Surg Nurses

    Cowboyardee replied to SkittlesMcRainbowbutt's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    ICU nurse here. I often train new rapid responders, and I make it a point to tell those new to the job not to be irritable or condescending in response to any stat team called in good faith, even if...

  24. bring back diploma they can function on graduation

    Cowboyardee replied to Susan Boff's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When I said that was the perception, I didn't mean to say that the perception was incorrect - just that I can't definitively prove it so (and also that the previous poster stating no one would make...

  25. RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Cowboyardee replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Best I can tell, professional discipline from the state board of nursing up to and including loss of her license is the most appropriate response to her error. Criminal charges were and still are...