RaDonda Vaught talks to Eva Pilgrim about her tragic mistake that left a patient dead and the unprecedented criminal charges and conviction that followed.
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But i agree that the law has to be that harsh because if she does not get jail time, people might not understand the seriousness of her mistake!
Slap on the wrist
She killed a person!! Idc about none of the excuses! So much sympathy for this woman is blowing me! 🤬
The med she gave her caused central nervous system paralysis. She was unable to move her diaphragm to breath but yet very conscious and suffocated over 30 min from what the report said. Unimaginable
I’m a nurse and I am so busy I cannot even go to the bathroom. So it is so easy to make a mistake. Unless your in our field, you will not understand. Nursing homes are the worst and that’s where I work. It’s all for profit. Most days I have 45 residents. Between IV’S, wounds, medications, angry families, it’s a lot. And I also have to pass meal trays, feed residents, clean up kitchen area and tons of paperwork, some days I cry.
Everyone needs to be held accountable for their "mistakes" its not ok to leave room for error when said error potentially has a chance of harming someone fatally. You don't for sorry the person who accidentally ran over someone after running a stop sign the legitimately didn't see. Double standards are a real B…
This brings back lots of memories of working in cardiology years ago. I am not a nurse but we routinely worked long shifts with being on call. It was not unusual to be at work from 7 am to 11 pm and then get called back in in the middle of the night. How many times did I not even remember my drive home. I always kept a jar of peanut butter at work because a couple of spoonfuls were my lunch many days. This needs to change! Medical workers are human beings.
Over 250000 deaths per year due to medical malpractice and in 4 years time we've reached the one million mark…. Does that number sound familiar?
By the way that nurse looks like Chelsea Clinton evil and vile
"you don't point your finger and blame someone". That's streetcode for 'no snitching'
I can only imagine the horror yet I can't truely imagine it. The family's grace and mercy is everything to this nurse. But for the grace of GOD go I. A series of events at play and shouldn't be solely placed on the nurse. Unfortunately, too often, lives must be lost before change occurs.
She’ll get a book deal and never have to work again.
In her defense, they’ve forced these Nurses to work extremely long hours and extra shifts throughout the pandemic! If anyone is to blame, it’s the hospital and the governors on up with these mandates which forced the firing of several hospital workers!
The way they have this video set up is making the murderer into a victim she killed someone she took a mother away she took a daughter away she took a grandmother away that's what she did and she needs to be accountable for it and we don't need to feel bad for her for what she did she was a nurse of many years these type accidents we should not overlook good luck or simply say these things happen somebody is grieving the lost because she didn't double check a label
As a physician this makes my heart break. I feel for this nurse.
Glad that there's an organization that also protects medical practitioners (doctors, nurses) their job is difficult, and sometimes their works are not being appreciated…God bless all medical practitioners who are helping sick people and all the future medical workers…may God use you all to heal people
She should have READ it FIRST. Reading is a simple procedure to begin the process of checks and balances. Overrides are unacceptable.
I’m glad she didn’t get jail time, however that wasn’t a mistake if they ignored several red flags. The med wasn’t assigned to her I. The Pyxis. CALL THE PHARMACY!!!! Pull out your phone and use google since the pharmacy isn’t reliable 🙄. But Ofcourse she’ll get a slap on the wrist.
Medication error is not a minor issue. Address the system’s problems by identifying the gaps that can lead to accidents. All facilities regardless if in health or services should do risk and hazard assessment and address those.
So she wont be held responsible for her actions?
I think it was right she should never be a nurse again and yes be held responsible and the hospital too
I'm good with this.
There is consequences for every action… You are a nurse, there is NO room For FATEL errors!!!! Key word “FATEL”!!! HER ACTIONS WEREN’T CARING, it was reckless!!!! We are allowed to make mistakes in life, but FATEL mistakes do have consequences!!!!
Why do they work 12 hour shifts? In that time mistakes can happen.
I don’t know the situation this nurse was in when she made this critical mistake but it would not have been remotely deliberate.
This was heartbreaking! They do over work them!
As a retired nurse I can relate to the nurses who talked about not eating, not going to the bathroom because you just don't have time. Making an error or causing harm to the people you look after is something that any nurse dreads. Procedures are put in place to protect patients and to protect nursing staff, if you have to continually override these procedures then something is fundamentally wrong and accidents will happen. I truly hope that the family of the patient who died have received all the help they need to understand what happened and to come to terms with it. The best outcome of this situation is that safety is tightened up and it doesn't happen again.
You didn’t know what U was doing sweetie, as a nurse there is no room for mistakes.
You were not a scapegoat! You ignored blatantly obvious warnings because you are too lazy or stupid to speak up!!! You deserve prison.
I get the support, but please remember the family they are the ones that are hurting and missing their loved one
People saying it was a mistake are so quick to justify people who run over a pedestrian by “accident” ? The fact she’s young and female doesn’t make it ok folks , connect your neurons for once lol
As a nurse myself, working in a system that is tremendously overloaded, mistakes can and do happen.
With computers that are not always correct/updated/functioning properly, at time of med rounds, you have to be 100% on top of things.
Hard to be on top of things when you are working with half of the necessary staff, long hours, no breaks, unreasonable expectations from management, etc.
It's horrible to be a nurse right now.
BUT there are 5 rights of medication administration.
RIGHT medication.
RIGHT patient.
RIGHT dose.
RIGHT time.
RIGHT route.
AND then there are 3 checks of these 5 BEFORE actual administration.
Takes time but thats our job.
Imagine the patient's kids or grandchildren watching the world defend the person responsible for "accidentally giving her a fatal dose of the wrong medication!
Yes, people make mistakes…. But I feel like there are way to many excuses for this woman. It was wreckless, she could’ve LAID her eyes on the vial to triple check the medication before administration, it takes TWO, not even two seconds. People have said they have made many medication errors as nurses and as someone who has had family in the hospital and who has lost someone to a “medical error” Im starting not to trust too many nurses.
Sorry for the ignorance, but could someone explain , For what do doctors need that PARALYZING MED?