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

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Or, $7,500 if you just want her virtually. Good to know that negligent homicide is such a lucrative endeavor. 
 

https://www.executivespeakers.com/speaker/radonda-vaught

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Wuzzie said:

We've all  made mistakes, for sure, and nobody is denying that. If what she had done was made a mistake maybe the responses would be less visceral. Unfortunately she didn't make a mistake. She made multiple poor decisions that rose to the level of utter incompetency....and she knew better. Vanderbilt's actions, after the fact, were reprehensible but did not in any way contribute to the death of Charlene Murphey. 

 

Vanderbilt was culpable and contributed to this sentinel event. That is the Swiss cheese model. This could have been prevented,  obviously by the nurse, but prevented by the hospital as well.

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CWS RN said:

... This could have been prevented,  obviously by the nurse, but prevented by the hospital as well.

How?

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chare said:

How?

Read the link I previously sent. 

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CWS RN said:

Read the link I previously sent. 

There were a lot of inaccuracies and omissions in that article which is not at all surprising. But please tell me Vanderbilt is culpable when a nurse doesn't even look at the vial of medication she is about to use? 

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dsaprog said:

Because most people, not only nurses, make silly mistakes that have tragic consequences. 

wow that's also repulsive

also too she's not unhoused destitute or dead

https://www.hiddenhollerfarms.com/

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Diana380 said:

She has valuable input for nursing community and the abuse my admin.

Her role should have ended with her sentencing - she has nothing of value to offer in nursing or healthcare, but something about her hitting the rubber chicken circuit plus the folks willing to exploit her as the conference equivalent of clickbait makes it all sordid and disgusting

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CWS RN said:

I never slam drugs into a patient. 

well she did

listen to court testimony

also too do you just walk away after giving parenteral bbenzos?

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Diana380 said:

Why does anyone assume its strictly for money? She has valuable input for nursing community and the abuse my admin. Management. Perhaps people can learn what signs to look for that's not a safe environment.  People who kill people in drunk driving accidents speak to youth in hs. Etc. She admitted her mistake. Yes it was tragic. Nurses are so contradictory.  Try having some compassion for others. Too much like burn her at the stake mentality. 

because if someone asked me to speak in my city 

- tell me when I need to show up

- out of my city, pay my transport and accomodation costs if I need to stay over. 

Neither of those options remotely come close to $10,000

As for having compassion, she bypassed multiple checks, including not reading the dam phial. As a result Charlene Murphy died an excrutiating horrible death, suffocating to death and fully aware that she was dyinig. Unable to tell anyone

Which sucks on two levels. RV slammed the medication and left her alone. Charlene Murphy was comopletely paralysed and unable to alert anyone

 

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dsaprog said:

She did own her mistake and it was just that. A mistake. 

No it wasnt just a mistake, she didn't read the phial of medication. VERCURONIUM vs VERSED, Never mind the 8 plus other safety checks she bypassed. The whole tragedy could have been averted if she had just read the bottle. 

She has done nothing to accept her mistake. It was someone else that found the mistake. We've heard all about how vandebilt was at fault. Not once has she ever said "I screwed up"

Genuinely remorseful people don't try to financially profit of their wrong doing. I doubt your friend is about to jump on the speaking circuit charging such obscene amounts of money. At one point she was also doing cruises and again charging obscene amounts of money for the privlidge

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CWS RN said:

Absolutely.  She was deeply remorseful. 

Why?

Must of missed that interview.

Not once has she expressed any remorse or owned her mistakes in public interviews

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CWS RN said:

This could have happened to any acute care nurse.

No, it couldnt. 

I had to draw up vancomycin the other day. Do you know the first thing I did? Checked the box to ensure the correct medication, checked the phial in the box to ensure I had vancomycin. I then checked the EMAR to ensure I had the correct medication for the patient

Charlene Murphy would have been alive had RV read the label. 

VERCURONIUM, VERSED apart from the first intital the two drugs arent remotely alike. 

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CWS RN said:

Vanderbilt was culpable and contributed to this sentinel event. That is the Swiss cheese model. This could have been prevented,  obviously by the nurse, but prevented by the hospital as well.

How is a hospital responsible for a nurse not reading the medication label?

don't get me wrong, not to say the hospital has massive systemic errors at the end of the day she didn't read the label and Charlene Murphy died a horrific death

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