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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khillbrt said:

I'm glad you were this fortunate. 

I will still have compassion and empathy for those who weren't as lucky, even if they contributed to their own situation. I doubt any nurse sets off in the morning to accidentally kill someone, and I will keep that belief alive. 

If nastiness and bitterness serves you well, carry on. Perhaps time will soften your edges.

More baloney

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NurseGerard said:

that's all in your head

I am mystified how simply stating facts can be considered "nasty" or "bitter". They're facts...ugly ones for sure but still just...facts. I'm also laughing at the irony of the posters mounting personal attacks against other posters who have not actually attacked the person of RV but do not support her actions during and after the event. 

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Tenebrae said:

Unlikely. 

I freely admit I'm a meanie

Someone has to maintain standards!

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Wuzzie said:

I am mystified how simply stating facts can be considered "nasty" or "bitter". They're facts...ugly ones for sure but still just...facts. I'm also laughing at the irony of the posters mounting personal attacks against other posters who have not actually attacked the person of RV but do not support her actions during and after the event. 

They just come with baloney... that's all they have because the facts of the killing don't support their feelings.  

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Speaking fee aside, this thread prompted me to actually look Ms Vaught up online with a fresh new lens and see her speak. She's done a few in-depth interviews more recently and I feel that her story does have benefit for nurses especially those who could see themselves in her. She is devastated and repentant though the optics of what she's doing since her verdict doesn't seem to show that...trying to have her RN license reinstated, charging for speaking engagements, etc are a few examples.  

She questioned the primary nurse more than once about the need for monitoring for Mrs Murphy and blindly trusted that colleague without going with her gut feeling. She mentioned that there has been times when the institution have supplied medications that came in a different formulation than what she was familiar with and allowed that to influence her actions to totally disregard any instinct to check the label on the vial more than once.  She was multi-tasking (talking to an orientee about a swallow eval they are supposed to do next) while performing a nursing action that is of higher importance and higher risk of harm if mistakes were to occur.

Faced in a situation where things are not aligning the way they normally should in combination such as what occurred in this sentinel event (pt unmonitored, medication not showing up on the patient profile on the ADC, Radiology not having a bar code scanner), it would help to slow down and pause, take a deep breath, eliminate distraction, and focus on the task at hand.  Just say no, this is not right, I am not going to do this task and I am prepared to face the consequence of doing the right thing. 

It really was an unfortunate situation because she did not even realize that the PET Scan was not even going to happen for some odd reason and the patient was already being called back up to the unit so it was actually a transporter who found the pt unresponsive. On top of that, the swallow eval she was supposed to do with the orientee did not occur because that other patient was in MRI. It was the very definition of a "cluster-***" of a day for her.

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Corey Narry said:

It really was an unfortunate situation

yes it was very unfortunate 

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Corey Narry said:

Faced in a situation where things are not aligning the way they normally should in combination such as what occurred in this sentinel event (pt unmonitored, medication not showing up on the patient profile on the ADC, Radiology not having a bar code scanner), it would help to slow down and pause, take a deep breath, eliminate distraction, and focus on the task at hand.  Just say no, this is not right, I am not going to do this task and I am prepared to face the consequence of doing the right thing. 

I don't disagree completely (except the medication was in the patient profile, RV just didn't know it) but that still doesn't negate the fact that she did not follow the rules of safe medication administration, didn't read the label and if she was that worried about monitoring why did she slam the med and leave?  None of the factors you mentioned would have prevented her from doing these things. 

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Corey Narry said:

It was the very definition of a "cluster-***" of a day for her.

Objection - assumes facts not in evidence

As the help all nurse she had one task to perform; as a preceptor she had a learner on hand, a second set of eyes, someone to cross check and collaborate with - it was the perfect set-up for a valuable learning experience and an opportunity to spend time with someone who needed reassurance

instead, Mrs Murphy suffered a horrifying death for no reason but the former nurse's negligence and abuse, as evidenced by the jury's verdicts

that's the lesson in this for anyone who wants to learn

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Wuzzie said:

I don't disagree completely (except the medication was in the patient profile, RV just didn't know it) but that still doesn't negate the fact that she did not follow the rules of safe medication administration, didn't read the label and if she was that worried about monitoring why did she slam the med and leave?  None of the factors you mentioned would have prevented her from doing these things. 

I'm looking at a different angle in my final paragraph because I now know that Mrs Murphy didn't even go to the PET Scanner because the tech cancelled it and communicated it to the primary nurse by phone. The tech assumed that the orientee she was with is the primary nurse (male voice on phone, male wearing nurses scrubs standing there with her). Had she hanged around in Nuc Med a little longer, assess the situation before giving the med, she would have realized that Mrs. Murphy did not need the medication at all. Let's face it, even if she had given Versed (which she knew was given to this pt 24 hours prior) and left, there may have been consequences to that, albeit, not the horrible death the pt endured. There is value in being slow and calculated and not rushed and task oriented. I know nurses get dinged for being inefficient but this is not the time to do that especially when this is not her primary patient that she knows well.

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Corey Narry said:

There is value in being slow and calculated and not rushed and task oriented. I know nurses get dinged for being inefficient but this is not the time to do that especially when this is not her primary patient that she knows well.

Agree 100%

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Corey Narry said:

Speaking fee aside, this thread prompted me to actually look Ms Vaught up online with a fresh new lens and see her speak. She's done a few in-depth interviews more recently and I feel that her story does have benefit for nurses especially those who could see themselves in her. She is devastated and repentant though the optics of what she's doing since her verdict doesn't seem to show that...trying to have her RN license reinstated, charging for speaking engagements, etc are a few examples.  

She questioned the primary nurse more than once about the need for monitoring for Mrs Murphy and blindly trusted that colleague without going with her gut feeling. She mentioned that there has been times when the institution have supplied medications that came in a different formulation than what she was familiar with and allowed that to influence her actions to totally disregard any instinct to check the label on the vial more than once.  She was multi-tasking (talking to an orientee about a swallow eval they are supposed to do next) while performing a nursing action that is of higher importance and higher risk of harm if mistakes were to occur.

Faced in a situation where things are not aligning the way they normally should in combination such as what occurred in this sentinel event (pt unmonitored, medication not showing up on the patient profile on the ADC, Radiology not having a bar code scanner), it would help to slow down and pause, take a deep breath, eliminate distraction, and focus on the task at hand.  Just say no, this is not right, I am not going to do this task and I am prepared to face the consequence of doing the right thing. 

It really was an unfortunate situation because she did not even realize that the PET Scan was not even going to happen for some odd reason and the patient was already being called back up to the unit so it was actually a transporter who found the pt unresponsive. On top of that, the swallow eval she was supposed to do with the orientee did not occur because that other patient was in MRI. It was the very definition of a "cluster-***" of a day for her.

I do appreciate that you are looking for anything that can be gleaned from the whole series of failures. 

What doesn't jive is that if she is saying that she questioned the primary nurse multiple times as to whether the patient needed to be monitored, why did she not even spend one minute with the patient after pushing the med? How many minutes would have made the difference between life and death? You don't go from "Does this patient need to be monitored?" to "I don't need to give her a second look". 

"Medications come in different formulations" to "I don't even have to look at the vial".

These 2 things leave me to believe she is not being honest with herself, and still looking for outside forces to explain her behavior. Because knowing what she did about the patient needing monitoring and about the changing formulations would lead her to be more cautious rather than throw everything to the wind.

I think it is doing more harm than good for her to be out there doing anything but taking full responsibility for her careless actions and leaving it at that.

 

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mtmkjr said:

I do appreciate that you are looking for anything that can be gleaned from the whole series of failures. 

What doesn't jive is that if she is saying that she questioned the primary nurse multiple times as to whether the patient needed to be monitored, why did she not even spend one minute with the patient after pushing the med? How many minutes would have made the difference between life and death? You don't go from "Does this patient need to be monitored?" to "I don't need to give her a second look". 

"Medications come in different formulations" to "I don't even have to look at the vial".

These 2 things leave me to believe she is not being honest with herself, and still looking for outside forces to explain her behavior. Because knowing what she did about the patient needing monitoring and about the changing formulations would lead her to be more cautious rather than throw everything to the wind.

I think it is doing more harm than good for her to be out there doing anything but taking full responsibility for her careless actions and leaving it at that.

 

I do not know her personally so I'm going objectively with her statement. That's why I said, if her gut feeling is that a patient requiring Versed must be monitored then should monitor regardless of what another nurse tells her - which is what we nurses should learn. At that point, the care has been transferred to her and not that nurse and she is now responsible and having no knowledge of this patient, it is best to be hyper-vigilant which she did not do. That is a lesson to learn because in my mind, she blindly trusted that primary nurse who could also have informed the tech to tell the "help all nurse" to not bother giving the med if the pt is not going to be scanned anyway.

The not looking at the name on the vial more than once is another big issue with her. Again, she let the complacency of assuming that previous meds have come in a different formulation in her institution color her ability to stick to the 5 rights. Never mind, she missed that Versed was already approved and on the profile in the ADC...many of us miss things when presented with a long list of medications like that on a profile.

I see her taking responsibility in her public statements about her mistakes. I think she is a product of the social media age and the culture it brings about. She has the support of many organizations in healthcare and that may have gotten to her head in the way she is allowing her public image to be portrayed. 

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