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

subee said:

I think they forgot to say don't bother me when I'm prepping meds?

I made a (minor) med error in the past and felt awful about it. They had the same meds with different dosages. A patient kept distracting me while giving medication to a patient. They were in the same room. After this, I didn't want to deal with the med error. 

I'd rather they get upset with me for telling them not to ask me questions during med pass. 

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C.Love said:

We should stay humble and be available to support people along the way.  Not all learners will be able to immediately recognize a life or death situation and need to the freedom to be able to ask more experienced people with our feeling intimidated. A good bood to read is, Why Hospitals Should Fly". 

 

Thanks for the book. I'll get it.  

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Corey Narry said:

Good practice! Something Ms Vaught did not adhere to and I'm sure there are other nurses who are not self-aware they fall easy prey to distractions in crucial moments sometimes.

I'm still considered a new nurse. I don't feel comfortable orienting new graduates. I told them last time that I only wanted to orient experienced nurses who have been practicing longer than me.  

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Corey Narry said:

take a moment to put yourself in her shoes in that very moment.

why are you trying so hard?

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Corey Narry said:

I believe she is remorseful

you can believe whatever you want, project onto her whatever values you hold and even find fault with a justice system we've had in place for a few hundred years for whatever reasons are important to you

that's not the same as objectively assessing facts in evidence following close instruction on the law - or even following up with her speakers bureau to verify fees and availability

and it doesn't seem at all patient and family centered, or even evidence based

so many nurses twisting themselves into logical pretzels - do they see themselves?

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Corey Narry said:

Even if you don't think you could ever commit such a mistake and she is the worst nurse ever, take a moment to put yourself in her shoes in that very moment. 

I think all of us would have had a great deal of compassion for her, despite her stunningly awful nursing actions, if her behavior post-tragedy had not been so equally stunningly awful and continues to be. Lying on federal forms, the Go Fund Me account, the trip to Costa Rica, the repeated blaming the "system" that "set her up" and now outrageous sums of money to continue the spin-doctoring. The optics are terrible and in direct conflict with her supposed remorse. 

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picture > words

this is a just culture algorithm

follow each available path to its logical conclusion and think about what makes the most sense

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NurseGerard said:

why are you trying so hard?

OK, you are free to disagree and you can say I'm trying too hard but nothing you've posted since you joined this thread has convinced me to join your camp. You haven't tried hard enough in my opinion.

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Wuzzie said:

I think all of us would have had a great deal of compassion for her, despite her stunningly awful nursing actions, if her behavior post-tragedy had not been so equally stunningly awful and continues to be. Lying on federal forms, the Go Fund Me account, the trip to Costa Rica, the repeated blaming the "system" that "set her up" and now outrageous sums of money to continue the spin-doctoring. The optics are terrible and in direct conflict with her supposed remorse. 

I respect your opinion. People react to situations in different ways. Remorse is a reaction that is not manifested in just one manner. I am not giving her a great deal of compassion other than accepting that she is human who made an egregious mistake that cost her not just her healthcare license and a career but a whole lifetime of trauma from her own actions which was never intentional but careless nonetheless.

I understand the optics you are referring to and this is why this thread was even started. We are living in an age where whatever someone who has been in the public eye does is easily found on a Google search and their social medial presence is scrutinized. I'm a nurse in his mid fifties and I'm familiar with other cases such as hers that occurred prior to the age of social media (in fact there was an identical case involving a male nurse in Florida in 2011). Perhaps that is the reason they have not elicited the same amount of internet discourse as Ms Vaught's case.

I was active in the discussion about her as you remember back before the pandemic when this case was thrust in the media. I actually didn't care to look up the case after the verdict and felt that every thing fell into place where they should. I have no problem with her post-case activities...she has supporters and they have every right to stay as her supporters. She is human and she has to regain some ability to cope with this tragedy without going completely crazy that she has to be institutionalized.

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Corey Narry said:

nothing you've posted since you joined this thread has convinec to join your camp

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, and I'm not concerned about whether or not you share my assessment - fwiw it's been apparent to me all along that a majority of white nurses are uncomfortable with the facts of this case, and instead of trying to critically and objectively face them along with their own discomfort they deny, deflect, rationalize, distort and revert to victim mode entirely on the basis of emotions, feelings and beliefs

I think this is an important case for nurses well worth understanding, because a woman died and peoples' actions are on the record

It's also an excellent example of what's wrong with modern nursing and of the lie beneath the cliche 'most trusted profession'

if you can't trust a young experienced BSN prepared white female nurse at a magnet(tm) certified major academic medical center to do one thing right on a slow day when she also has the benefit of a colleague to join in on the work - well, who CAN you trust?

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NurseGerard said:

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, and I'm not concerned about whether or not you share my assessment - fwiw it's been apparent to me all along that a majority of white nurses are uncomfortable with the facts of this case, and instead of trying to critically and objectively face them along with their own discomfort they deny, deflect, rationalize, distort and revert to victim mode entirely on the basis of emotions, feelings and beliefs

I think this is an important case for nurses well worth understanding, because a woman died and peoples' actions are on the record

It's also an excellent example of what's wrong with modern nursing and of the lie beneath the cliche 'most trusted profession'

if you can't trust a young experienced BSN prepared white female nurse at a magnet(tm) certified major academic medical center to do one thing right on a slow day when she also has the benefit of a colleague to join in on the work - well, who CAN you trust?

White nurses, really? I think I'm not engaging you any more.

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Corey Narry said:

White nurses, really? I think I'm not engaging you any more.

in poker, that's what's called 'a tell'

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