re: Thoughts on the RaDonda Vaught (nurse convicted of negligent homicide) trial?

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I am not excusing the mistake but it appears to go far beyond the nurse in this case.

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I think the problem here is that you have a nurse that clearly does not know her pharmacology, nor does she have any critical thinking skills.

I'm not saying she should know every drug in the book, but my god, at least ask someone for help. Surely, someone in that unit could have helped her do the right thing. She just didn't ask.

IMO, nurses that are defending her, are hurting their profession. My thought on it is this: If we're going to let this go (which was the initial plan of the hospital) then we might as well let CNAs push drugs too. Hell, let the attendants do it. Let the patients get their own drugs out of the Pyxis. It's so stupid. There's a reason RNs are trusted to give these meds. It's because they have to demonstrate competency and problem solving capacity to handle situations like the one of a drug not showing up in the Pyxis.

I just have no sympathy for this person. I find her actions to be unconscionable. If the hospital had let this go, she would have continued to work as a nurse (maybe not there, but somewhere) and inflicted god only knows how much harm on innocent people.

People need to take this seriously, because there are a lot more just like her in the system.