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

Versed was supposed to be given and wasn’t available so she did override pixis on chlosterphopic pt in CAT scan by typing “VER”and wrong drug at wrong place came up in the pixis that was wrongfully stocked
Pt was not on monitor when given drug
Nurse self reported after realizing
On top of being a floated nurse from another area of hospital
Vanderbilt covered up incident for months

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The question is, should she go to prison for it?

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I think if it's true that the victim's family didn't want her prosecuted, that prosecution is incredibly terrible.

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that prosecution is incredibly terrible.

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Vandy sold the nurse up River months after the incident when their process failures were being exposed

That is the reason MOST nurses are upset, not all. It isn’t “nurses want to be able to be lazy and frick up” for the actual competent nurses

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What are the chances that the terms of the NDA included that they couldn’t push for criminal charges lest they return the money?

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Believe it or not families of medical malpractice typically will not seek retribution and go scorched Earth if the medical provider is genuinely apologetic and owns to to mistake. This nurse has never placed blamed and owned up to her mistake.

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What are the chances that the terms of the NDA included that they couldn’t push for criminal charges lest they return the money?

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0.000000000000000000001%

Probably lower, actually

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I do wish I knew more about the patient since Versed is kind of a odd choice given there are so many other sedatives available.

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versed is basically the go to anxiolytic for in-patient purposes. it's by no means an odd choice.

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I don’t, at least not in the case where the woman accidentally grabbed her gun instead of the taser. To me they are similar. Or, hypothetically, what if a restaurant waiter accidentally grabbed the wrong meal and brought it to a customer? If the customer had a food allergy and died, do you throw them in jail? People make similar errors all the time. If the action is the same, do you jail them based on the outcome (death vs no harm?), or do you prosecute certain professions (nurses and cops) but not others?

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These are horrible examples. If you want to use a cop and waiter in a similar situation, this would be a better example:

1.) Cop - Cop is at the practice facility in uniform for tazer training. Cop grabs his pistol, waves it around, is warned 3 times that he has his 9mm pulled and not his tazer, proceeds to shoot it at a live person.

2.) Waiter - customer asks if a dish has seafood and says I don't know but asks a coworker and coworkers says yes. Manager says yes. Waiter also asks cook, cook says yes. In the process of training someone, waiter orders same dish with seafood on it. Waiter sees seafood on top of dish, waiter continues to serve food to customer. Customer points seafood out to waiter, waiter says "that's not seafood there's no seafood in the dish".

This was not in the ER, there was 0 stress in the situation for the nurse. There was 0 reason to hurry. She was distracted by a "student". That's not an excuse.

As I said when this broke, nurses aren't too happy with Vanderbilt. They are having major staffing issues.

My wife and others have been contacted to take a 26 week assignment at Vanderbilt with a 36 hour work week (3 12s) for $4800/week.

$124,800 for a 6 month assignment and my wife doesn't know anyone willing to do it right now. My wife isn't taking travel assignments this year.