RaDonda Vaught, convicted of criminally negligent homicide, faces three years of probation for giving a patient the wrong medication.
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So if someone accidentally kills someone with a car going 5mph over speed limit or a gun accidentally goes off they are charged with manslaughter… but killing someone by injection of wrong medication by a highly trained person who should have triple checked only gets probation 🤔 wierd…
The level of STAFFING during the Pandemic was so unacceptable that many of us quit and the same goes for Doctors quitting. Then when political, media and parts of the public wrapped us all up in a conspiracy theories, saying we were falsifying records, lying to the public, attacking us….who the hell wants to work in those conditions for the same wages as a worker who doesn't (work in a highly demanding emotional, physical and intellectual career)…..well there you go….I used to be proud to be called a Nurse. Now I hesitate to mention it.
One nurse almost killed me and my unborn baby while in labor she gave me wrong medicine.
And yet somehow Alec Baldwin is still walking the streets.
I am an Emergency Physician. I had a patient high as a kite on meth come in using profanity demanding antibiotics for a sinus infection. Immediately I saw her left eye was in bad shape. Her pupil was fixed and she had no light perception. Anytime I try to examine her eyes she threatened to hit me and made a fist. It was a small community hospital in Humboldt and I had no ophthalmologist on call. I arranged the helicopter to take her to Davis for immediate evaluation. When the helicopter arrived she used quite a string of profanity saying there's nothing wrong with her f i and I just need to give her some f biotics for her sinus. She stormed out of the emergency department. Two years later I'm still fighting her malpractice suit claiming that I was negligent causing her blindness. I encourage anybody thinking of entering the medical field to rethink their career goals
It's crazy how people praise Doctors and think they are God's, the fact are they are humans and don't know really know much more than anyone else.
The fact that this nurse was charge at all sets a VERY dangerous precedence for ALL healthcare providers. This was an unintentional error that had NO malicious intent! We nurses are working in a whole new world now. We have much sicker patients and patients that require medications in a split second.
Lay-people don't realize what goes into medication administration, the process involved and the time it takes :
– typing the orders into the computer (medication, dose, route, frequency and when to administer and when the med is to be discontinued).
– the new order is transmitted to pharmacy
– a pharmacist reviews the order, then they put the order into the MAR (medication administration record)
– the RN has to go back into the computer system and acknowledge the medication.
– after all those steps are completed, the RN waits a few minutes for the medication to be uploaded into the OmniCell or Pixis (a medication dispensing machine).
This is not a quick process and when a med is needed NOW, we need over ride the system to obtain the medication. In many instances it's a life or death situation or a matter of patient and staff safety to obtain these medications quickly and waiting is not an option. During that time, we are still responsible for these patients' care while the "med order process" is going on.
When a physician verbally asks for a med NOW, they want it now, not in the 10-15 minutes it takes to complete the "order process".
In this case, the RN did not work on that floor / Unit, and the patient receiving the drug did not show up on her "home unit's" list of patients, therefore she over-rode the system to pull the drug, as the physician wanted it NOW. The medication verbally ordered was Versed, which is in liquid form. The medication pulled was Vecuronium (Vec), is in a powder form and needs to be reconstituted w/ a liquid in order to be administered.
When the RN did an over-ride to pull the medication she typed in the 1st 2 letters of the med, which is common to find the med quickly on an over-ride. She typed "Ve" and selected VEc instead of VErsed.
This was a medication error, however any accountable nurse will tell you, "YES", pretty much, every nurse has made a med error. The majority is a "time" error from giving a med late (1 HR after the time due to be given), or the incorrect dose, such as a patient was prescribed a med that required 2 tablets given and only 1 tablet was pulled and given.
Being criminally charged for a fatal medication error shows there is work to be done w/in the healthcare profession and the overseeing board that protects their licensed healthcare workers.
Hospitals have changed since I became a nurse over 2 decades ago. It's big business now, it's bottom $, for profit, working harder, longer shifts w/ less staff, more redundant and duplicate computer work / charting, which all leads to less patient contact and care. Technology is the way of the world now, I'm just not convinced it's the safest solution, but I'm "old school".
I am extremely happy knowing the ANA had and has this nurses back. This case NEVER should have went to trial and the prosecutors need to take a hard look at what they did to the medical field and the confidence patients loss in the healthcare system.
someone DIED because of her "mistake'. why is she NOT in prison?
ALL Doctors would be in prison if law prosecuted ALL mistakes.
Unfortunately, it happens.
She probably was on Instagram but I’m glad she don’t get no prison time.
I'm sure no one makes errors outside of the nursing profession. People are perfect unless they are nurses. Right?
no one is blaming the doctor for their bad hand writing. this had cause so much confusion when writing prescription.
going to happen more and more with the goverment pushing there injections and over worked nurses, goverments to blame again!!!!!!
she didn't do this with bad intentions or broke any medical rules just simply a mistake they did the reasonable thing
To err is human, to forgive divine…I salute the family and my thoughts and prayers and deepest condolences to them. RIP 😓
How can wrong medication be given when two nurses have to prepare and give the medication together?🥺 I’m so sorry for this nurse😔🙏🏻
Doctors do the same..people would be shocked at the critical errors made
A man would have done jail time.
I know the nurses are overworked… As a person in bad health I am terrified of going in the hospital because I might recieve the wrong medication or wrong dose… She killed someone accidentally but still should go to jail… Here in Columbus Ohio where I live Jose Baez ( Casey Anthony's lawyer) just defended Dr Husel and he was found not guilty when he was very guilty, I believe the nurses who injected Dr. Husels precautions should have been at the defendants table with him… I love Drs and nurses they have saved my life numerous time, but I need to come up with a plan to make sure I see every med that they Want to give me
.. Prayers for all parties imvolved
The guilt she’ll deL with for the rest of her life is enough punishment for her.
Hold on… did I just read/hear that 250,000 people die/year due to medical negligence?
Two hundred and fifty THOUSAND people!?
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Please use this tragedy for good.some how. I'M an ICU nurse 22 yrs.UNDERSTAFFED,UNDER PAID, OVER WORKED, UNDER APPRECIATED, OVER WHELMED, UNDER APPRECIATED…still human. So sorry for all involved.It cld be any of us…ESPECIALLY in Icu..
Crazy how you can still get sentenced for a mistake
Wow.
Oops sorry
250k a year? C'mon man.
Medical errors kill almost 10 times more people in the US than firearms. Let that sink in…
Too bad she had to lose her licence. I think the lesson she learned and the forgiveness she received from the family would make her a better nurse.
Yeah, no. Had that been my family member, I would want her to serve jail time. Bless that family that was able to forgive her so quickly.
It not like she did not kill her on purpose she make sike she should have be charged for it.she should be retade have supination tell know how .