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

Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.
Diana380 said:

So many envious mean people in the World... Radonda is human....no- one knows "she didn't care"   " happymarriage" and whatever else. Someone mentioned " white colleagues " eyeroll....one cannot no matter how hard they try, change the past. Was it a serious mistake? Yes worst one can make. Did the greedy hospital cover it up? Yes so they won't lose their Medicare dollars. After someone anon. Reported this did they go after Radonda and toss her under the bus. This is nursing in a nutshell. "Nurse is no good" the greedy corporations have destroyed the profession.  I recall when it was a caring supportive environment.  The pay is way too low. Nurses are grossly persecuted ... not Doctors however. The Dr. Who decapitated the baby..tried to cover it up..still practicing.  Imagine if it were a nurse..try bring nicer to one another..

What?  Dr. Who decapitated a baby?  So many run on sentences here confuse me.  Can you distill this to a single paragraph what greedy hospitals and Dr. Who have to do with manslaughter?

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Nurse Judi said:

If you read the case and the trial, anyone can see that this could happen to ANY ONE of US! 

I adamantly disagree that it would happen to me. 

I check the name on the medication packet/box before proceeding. We had a patient on vancomycin for an infected hip. Long term ABS. Even though I know where the AB was kept and what the box looked like. I still read the box and the vial when taking it out of the box just to make sure. 

RV could have prevented all of this by reading the label. Vercuonium, Versed. Apart from the first 2 letters there is nothing remotely similar. 

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Nurse Judi said:

In reading all the reports she made many, many errors. None that many of us would have made, but every situation is different. I would not agree w/a jail sentence.  I think it is good that she talk about the experience. If people choose to pay her that is up to them. I know that during my career part of the reprimand was to go to other care facilities and talk about their incident. That was ordered by the state BON>

If the board of nursing had of done their job and not just slapped her on the wrist with a wet bus ticket it would have never gone to criminal charges IMO

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Tenebrae said:

I adamantly disagree that it would happen to me. 

I check the name on the medication packet/box before proceeding. We had a patient on vancomycin for an infected hip. Long term ABS. Even though I know where the AB was kept and what the box looked like. I still read the box and the vial when taking it out of the box just to make sure. 

RV could have prevented all of this by reading the label. Vercuonium, Versed. Apart from the first 2 letters there is nothing remotely similar. 

Agree with you completely.  About 40 years in anesthesia here and I had to draw up emergency drugs frequently and I remember a few minor mistakes over the years but none from administering  a wrong dangerous drug.  And in the early years we didn't even have preprinted labels for any of these dangerous drugs!  Paranoia must rule in any intensive care setting.  I don't get it why so many nurses on this site just dismiss what R. Vaught did is a slip that anyone could have done.  She actually went out of her way over and over to create this excruciating and painful death.  There us no longer any need at all for her to be fed #10,000 a pop to blame someone else for her carelessness. 

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Diana380 said:

So many envious mean people in the World..try bring nicer to one another..

I think you're projecting the "envious mean" thing

if by "nice" you mean "pretend" - nah

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Specializes in CEN, Firefighter/Paramedic.

At this point there's really just 3 types of nurses discussing Vaught

1.  Those who clearly haven't read any of the details of this case and just want to say "oh my gosh how could they possibly convict a nurse?"

2.  Those who have read the case but are intentionally glossing over the facts so that they can feel better about their own weak nursing practices.

3.  Those who actually understand that Vaught ignored several blatant safety warnings, ignored the 5 rights, pushed a paralytic, then didn't even stick around long enough to verify the patient's response to the medication.

We all work with #1 and #2 every day, we see them in our unit and roll our eyes when we see they're working on the same day we're here.  

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: 

We have a serious job with serious responsibilities and serious outcomes.  Take it seriously or surrender your license.

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Tara Barker said:

This women will never work again as an RN and I think earning a living with sharing on her experience "lessons learned, ect" would be helpful encouraging awareness around preventing sentinel events. I doubt she is getting rich plus she has to live with this error everyday. 

 

IDK, I don't think violating Son of Sam laws (which forbid convicts from earning money on their crimes) is the best way to earn a living. 

Speak publicly maybe — but she shouldn't accept a dime.  🤷🏻‍♀️

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Diana380 said:

So many envious mean people in the World... Radonda is human....no- one knows "she didn't care"   " happymarriage" and whatever else.

Fact, people who care don't do half-@$$#* jobs.  "Envious"? Please 🤣

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Specializes in Perinatal/neonatal.

I have been a member of allnurses for about 25 years now. Some of the comments made in this thread are appalling. The topic really is none of our business. Stop piling on our members for their difference in opinion. 

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What I can't understand is why she wants to continue this. If I lost my license and faced consequences like her, I would want to fade out of publicity, start fresh, and just lie low the rest of my life. This is just perpetuating what she did.

I can only imagine the disgust the patient's family would feel if they knew she was doing this. It seems very insensitive and it doesn't paint her in a good light. 

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civility is the most treasured value in nursing, followed closely by self-regard

everything else is an option

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NurseAngie said:

Stop piling on our members for their difference in opinion. 

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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 system" bus. I can't say that for the other side. 

NurseAngie said:

 The topic really is none of our business.

I disagree. Protecting the public's trust in nursing as a whole is absolutely our business. 

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