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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Aesopian said:

I'm not sure if I want to get angry at someone trying the best they can to pay their bills.

How about being annoyed at someone who made a massive medication error that resulted in Charlene Murphy dieing a horrific death, suffocating and fully aware and unable to alert anyone of the fact

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Not sure if the details are well known, but it's more complicated than what has been made public by most news outlets.

There is a great article from the NIH about this case. This could have happened to most any/ all of us. Search for:

Reconsidering the application of systems thinking in healthcare: the RaDonda Vaught case - PMC (nih.gov)

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SacTownRN said:

This could have happened to most any/ all of us.

No. Please see the source documents from CMS and TBI as well as her own BON testimony that I've posted in this thread previously. I actually look at the label of the medication I remove from Pyxis and again when I go to give it. This won't happen to me. 

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SacTownRN said:

Not sure if the details are well known, but it's more complicated than what has been made public by most news outlets.

There is a great article from the NIH about this case. This could have happened to most any/ all of us. Search for:

Reconsidering the application of systems thinking in healthcare: the RaDonda Vaught case - PMC (nih.gov)

Nope.

This can't happen to anyone who reads the medication label before administration of a medication.  

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SacTownRN said:

This could have happened to most any/ all of us. 

I can categorically say "absolutely not". I read the medication package prior to beginning

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SacTownRN said:

Not sure if the details are well known, but it's more complicated than what has been made public by most news outlets.

Most of us are not relying on news sources for accurate information. Anybody who does should have their head examined. We dug much deeper, as Rose Queen stated, and looked at or listened to the actual reports and testimony. I 100% can say this would not have and will not ever happen to me. If you honestly think it could happen to you perhaps some intense examination of your nursing practice is in order. 

 

ETA: I read the article. It's garbage. They don't even have the timeline correct. 

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SacTownRN said:

This could have happened to most any/ all of us. 

No. When I pull a medication from Pyxis, I look at the label of the medication. Every single time. If you don't, you shouldn't be a nurse either.

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When I first heard about this case I experienced sorrow for the family and empathy for Radonda but then I looked deeper and as others here have said I can say 1 would 100% not make THIS MISTAKE. 

I don't think Radonda should be profiting off a death she caused. It's sickening.

Hppy

 

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SacTownRN said:

Not sure if the details are well known, but it's more complicated than what has been made public by most news outlets.

1 The Tennessean provided great coverage incluing timeline and access to source  documents, so there's that

2 Folks here including me have also referenced source documents, court testimony and even from the former nurse, who's speaking freely (well, for a fee but you know what I mean) about what she did and what it means and who's responsible etc etc 

3 That journal piece is crap, as has been noted and as evidenced by opening with: "‘I do not work in a vacuum. I work in a healthcare system.’1 Vaught incorrectly administered vecuronium, instead of Versed® (midazolam) as ordered, without patient monitoring, and immediately reported the error. "

FWIW there's a LOT of badly written fact-free coverage written from the perspective of fearful nurses and written to provoke emotional reactions

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SacTownRN said:

Not sure if the details are well known, but it's more complicated than what has been made public by most news outlets.

There is a great article from the NIH about this case. This could have happened to most any/ all of us. Search for:

Reconsidering the application of systems thinking in healthcare: the RaDonda Vaught case - PMC (nih.gov)

Another comment without reading the thread.  Just the fact that you believe anyone could make the same mistake, makes me very afraid to be a patient if this is what nursing programs are graduating now.

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klone said:

I look at the label of the medication. Every single time. If you don't, you shouldn't be a nurse either.

 I was taught the 3 times check ..1)When you obtained the medication (look at vial label),2)when you draw it up  (vial label)and 3)prior to delivery(look at the label on the vial you drew it up from). 

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londonflo said:

 I was taught the 3 times check ..1)When you obtained the medication (look at vial label),2)when you draw it up  (vial label)and 3)prior to delivery(look at the label on the vial you drew it up from). 

You are right!  This  is something I do automatically but had forgotten that my wonderful nursing instructors in ancient times emphasized never doing anything else.  

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