Wuzzie

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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I always find it ironic that those admonishing everyone else seldom adhere to what they are asking others to
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    That is what has been made publicly available. If you have information otherwise please
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    This was addressed in another related thread. Since 1980 there have been 5 medication related death/significant harm events (not including serial killers but that's a different topic) that have come...
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    struggling at work as new grad

    Wuzzie replied to dublin02's topic in General Nursing

    Do you use a "peripheral brain"? It's sort of like a chart of the things that need done for each patient? We all have different ways of doing it but they can be very
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    They were installing bar code scanners in the hospital. While the transition was being made they temporarily had to override until the 2 computer systems were connected. This had been resolved some...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Not going to happen Diana. Like I said, we really aren't mean people. I wish you well with whatever you are dealing with right
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    This is why you need all the facts before condemning those of us who speak against Radonda as lacking compassion or wanting to "crucifying" her. I'm glad you are doing more research into what happened...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Any good nurse will tell you that learning never stops. That being said, the 5 rights is one of the very first nursing actions we learn. It is practiced on the daily and successfully by nursing...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Calling it a murder story is overstating it in my opinion. I feel like the term "murder" implies intent which I don't think applies
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    The violent language seems to be coming from only one side of the table and is completely
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    It was one of those "yeah I did this but it was someone else's fault" kind of thing. And now she's doubling down on this AND getting paid for it. It's disturbing. I think the people who are all...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    The problem people have with her is she continues to blame the system for her incompetence and she continues to benefit from it while at the same time paying lip-service to her own culpability. We got...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed and to add what I feel is an important point...if any, ANY of us find ourselves even considering taking unsafe shortcuts we should remember this case and Charlene
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Then you need to speak up and be part of the solution. Also, I read the article you posted. It was complete rubbish. It left out multiple pertinent facts and spun what information it did...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    We don't need administration's help to independently adhere to the 5 rights of safe medication administration. We don't need technological crutches to independently adhere to the 5 rights of...
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    Revisiting The Lucy Letby case - what if she was innocent?

    Wuzzie replied to mtmkjr's topic in General Nursing

    I'm surprised they didn't charge her with the deaths that occurred at the hospital across town. Makes about as much
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Jeez o peet! Not sure why you're so fired up about what I said. Where did I say you can't express your opinion? We disagree...so what? I'm an absolute stranger to you. Forums like this are a great...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Disagreeing, even passionately, is not "piling on". Slinging accusations and insults certainly is but I'm not seeing much of that from those of us who refuse to jump on the "she's a victim of the...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Fact, people who care don't do half-@$$#* jobs. "Envious"? Please
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    If they were actual errors. In this case it was a cascade of poor decisions by an incompetent nurse who disregarded all she had been taught regarding safe nursing practice. She knew better but she...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    All very true and there have definitely been cases where the system carried as much blame as the nurse. Vanderbilt is guilty of mishandling the tragedy for sure but they in no way whatsoever were the...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    So the hospital told her not to look at the vial to verify the name of the medication, reconstitute a medication she admitted she knew did not need to be reconstituted and slam a medication with know...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Most of us, myself included, agree that jail time would have been pointless. The problem with her talking about the event, and profiting from it, is she continues to put the blame on everyone else and...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    This has been discussed at length in multiple other posts. This was not a simple medication error and nobody is faulting her for overriding the ADS (although she wouldn't have had to if she had input...
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    Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

    Wuzzie replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Benzodiazepines do not have a paralyzing effect. They can suppress respirations and blood pressure but they do not paralyze. Full stop Putting ourselves in other's shoes is always a...