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

The prosecution comparing this to drunk driving is absurd. A drunk driver chose to drink, and then got behind a vehicle. That is knowingly putting someone in danger

The equivalent here is someone running a red light, and then saying they truly thought it was green. Would that person go to prison? I truly doubt it. They would be civilly liable and have other troubles like loss of license etc. Same that should have been done to this nurse

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Criminal negligence charges should be used in cases where a potentially dangerous situation was known about, but left uncorrected resulting in injury or death. As the other poster said there are other methods to discipline those that had no intent to harm, but made a mistake. Revocation of professional license, civil lawsuits, etc. The punishment should be based on the intent of the action not the result.

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But was that not the case here? Honestly don't know?

It seems to me that there were two major issues, please correct me if I'm wrong?

1.) Nurse egregiously searched, found, and administered the wrong drug. IMO she made two horrible errors here. One was pulling the wrong drug and assuming they were the same. Who the hell does that? Then the second was administering the wrong drug without asking someone first to confirm?

2.) Nurse failed to monitor the situation?

From the docs and RN's here, some are saying that if she was properly monitored and it was caught right away she may have lived? How quickly would it have been caught?