As a nurse, I still don't understand how vec, a medicine used only in surgery, was available on the unit or was among the medicines that a nurse can override?
Back in the day vecuronium was in the fridge in the ICU. And was an override med because we used it for rapid intubation. After this incident, the process was changed and vec was placed in the “intubation kit” in the Pyxis. You could still override, but you had to select intubation kit. That made this particular error less likely. I remember when this happened, and I knew how easy it would be to pull this med incorrectly. But I still don’t understand how she reconstituted it without realizing it was the wrong drug.
Vec is not a drug used only in surgery. It is commonly used in the ICU’s. It is used for intubation or to paralyze someone who was already on a ventilator
I have seen some horrible nursing in my long career and some great ones the bad yes need to be held accountable for their mistakes like anything else I could be here all nite what I have witness every time I put my life in anyone’s hands I pray sad situation 💙🙏🏿
This is a perfect example of how important it is to always confirm the “6 Rights”. All my medical people will understand. I work in EMS and it is so so important to make sure that we are giving the right medicine, to the right patient, with the right dose, at the right time. They can’t stress that enough in med school
I've seen/experienced a lot of medical mistakes. No one is ever held accountable. If a patient fails to do their part, they are noted as 'non-compliant', yet if med staff fails to do their's, it's covered up.
Well said! I’ve tried and tried to see this from both sides and I can’t. This nurse was neglectful and should be punished for it. A woman is dead. I need everyone supporting her to remember that.
The only people who covered it up was the hospital Vanderbilt University Hospital. Not the nurse she admitted her error immediately. Two of Vanderbilt hospitals neurologists said the patient died of natural causes. Not one but two. They lied to save Vanderbilt and now who is on the hook. The nurse is.
1st I thought "For a sincere mistake?" But that list of mistakes shows this was more neglectful than sincere mistake esp 16 & 17. People in other industries also have a duty to follow safety protocols & most are there for valid reasons. They aren't meant to be skipped over.
I thought the same thing. She’s going to prison for 1 mistake but then the attorney general explaining they are not attack for just 1 mistake but a freaking laundry list that led to that patient’s death? Simple protocols are there for a reason.
@@DisneyWitch22 That’s what I’m trying to get people to understand. People are saying she made just one mistake by getting the wrong drug. However she didn’t do the things she was supposed to do before giving and after giving the drug. Things that could’ve helped her realize that she had done.
None of the other industries you mention end up with those responsible prosecuted and jailed. Ever. They are rich and powerful with well paid lawyers. She is a worker who made a mistake. A big one. This is a double standard unless we have builders of collapsed buildings and bridges jailed for their illegal actions . Seaside Condominiums collapse to name just one example. Look up what happens in the USA if a business actions cause death. They pay a fine. Nobody ever goes to jail. Unless some underling can be blamed of course.
If a hospital gives a nurse the power to override the medication dispenser, wouldn't it be the hospital's responsibility as well? Isn't that a malpractice thing?
Of course hospital had bunch of lawyers that nurses have to sign so they’re free from their negligence. Hospitals are really ugly when it comes to denials of any mistakes they made and they (their team of lawyers and damage control admins) even train doctors and nurses to lie and what to say and what not to say. So hospitals are covered. They make mistakes all the time and even then most of the time patients don’t know. I’m glad this nurse was held accountable for making 17 mistakes. Ridiculous actually how grossly negligent she was.
Been nursing for 30 years. It is ALWAYS the nurse’s responsibility to verify that the right medication is being administered. This was not an override problem or a Pyxis problem; Radonda Vaught did not look at what she was administering!
@@teresaoutlaw178 That kind of medication shouldn’t be accessible to floor staff especially through an override. That is just an accident waiting to happen and it did.
What's done is done. It's sad for all those involved, especially for the family that lost a loved one. I only wish the same level of expedient accountability would be dished out to corrupt politicians, police, Supreme Court Justices, presidents, et al.
This woman didn’t deserve this! Police officers who actually murder on purpose do deserve this and more! Yet look how hard and how long it takes to do anything, if anything is done at all. They just wanted to put a blame on someone rather than the hospital taking responsibility and fixing the actual problem! The system failed her!!!!!!!! She should have only lost her license, plus she will have to live with this for the rest of her life… if I were the other RN’s I would find another hospital, this one will blame their medical staff for anything that goes wrong. This is a very dangerous decision for any nurse or medical worker.
What about the doctor, the pharmacy, the nursing director, the hospital administrators and the patient herself? Why would a doctor order a Versed just to get the patient for a test? I may not have read the full story but it looks like the patient was restless while undergoing a test in imaging. All I know we only give Versed in the OR or during/after a procedure. Why order in in imaging area? Patient can have so many side effects and there's no one to monitor there, no Nurse in imaging areas, no monitor. They're blood pressure can drop so fast, they can get dizzy, there's no scanner to check counter check the medications.
I have been a nurse for 30 years. I have seen a lot of careless , uncaring, unconscientious nurses . Many of these nurses aren't emotionally affected by their mistakes . Sad but true!
I have had manny nurses some motherly others helpful but one particular nurse i will never forget put the needle in so bad and then blamed me, i didn't complain because i was worried she would hurt my baby, she gave me medicine that she said would help me relax but it knock me out,she ignored my call for help because i kept needing to go to the bathroom to use and vomit, i realized the medicine was more about her then me but i was able to rest, i was so happy when she left i couldn't believe she was a nurse, but i am thankful for all nurses even tho it's hard to except a horrible mistake too bad some mistakes can't be reversed.
I wouldn't be able to do a nurses job because I can feel other people's feelings. I am the last person who could be a first responder. I thought I hurt a lizard the other week in the yard and I screamed at the top of my lungs and ran away, freaking out, without even seeing if it was hurt or not because I just couldn't. It's very embarrassing to be saying this. So the fact that people can turn this off is very confusing to me. You seem like a great nurse. Thank you for being one of the best.
The amount, type and severity of errors reflect willful or intentional "not caring" besides incompetence, and should be punished. it's not like on mistake was made. The patient died unnecessarily. The nurse is incompetent, and her license should be rescinded, and never practice nursing again.
I have been an RN for over 10 yrs, I worked all over the states. I prayed 🙏 to all my saints everyday I walk through a hospital door, I took care of humans in their more vulnerable state of life,I cried when I had used the body bags to send my friend to the morgue...nursing is Not easy, it took my soul 💔 it broke my heart ,is not just a job you can do. 17 mistakes in less than 5 minutes! I read the list and it breaks my heart again 💔 😢
@@codymontour7816 oh so she purposely killed the patient is what you are saying 🙄!? The system failed her!!!! Prob was overworked too! She was also training someone at the same time… Lost of license sure, jail time give me a fb! The family isn’t even pressing charges as of yet, do you wonder why? I do hope they sue the hospital for millions!!!!
@@user-bv7mk8id5t do I think she purposely killed her no. However if it’s true that he made 17 mistakes in 5 mistakes that’s no accident and prison is necessary. Whether a mistake or intentional no one is above the law regardless the profession.
And alot of nurses have quit the medical field due to the hanging of this nurse. Have fun taking care of your parents as they get older. Quality nurses won't be around for much longer
As a former nurse, she literally VIOLATED EVERY RULE you are taught. Not only in school, but at 99.9% of hospitals. Right PATIENT, right MEDICATION, and right DOSAGE... If you had to "override" everything to get a PARALYTIC medication, and you still proceeded to give it... You shouldn't be a nurse because you're either stupid, or you have a Good complex and think you know everything. Either way, I have no sympathy for her mistake. These nurses that think the rules don't apply because they're these amazing front line workers, give the profession a bad name.
You said it yourself it’s a mistake. She didn’t override everything. She thought it was the right medication and right dose. It was a MISTAKE. That’s what it means to make a MISTAKE.
as a nurse you are always under pressure. with medication especially injectables you read the bottle when you take it out of the cabinet, read it again at syringe draw up, read again plus verify dosage to record it in the patient's chart and read it again when you put the medication back in cabinet. a person's life is always in your hands and you have to be correct. the pay for nurses are competitive it depends on location and or city, town.
If conditions provided by healthcare facilities are not ideal, healthcare workers cannot function in the ideal way....we all know in theory what is ideal, but in the real world, healthcare facilities don't provide the ideal situation to prevent errors
She made 17 mistakes. a patient's life doesn't matter? the hospital needs to take responsibility for lives lost due to negligence. there should never be an excuse for killings like this.
@@vanisri9042 she should NOT get jail time though! Lost of license sadly yes! But they trying to put blame again on the smaller person. The system that they use failed! The hospital managers, CEO’s are responsible too!!!
@@vanisri9042 If you're an insider in the healthcare industry, you would know what 17 means. Is that too many, normal or minimal? That's for you to find out. Healthcare institutions don't make working conditions safer for healthcare workers due to greed for more profit. So in this case, healthcare facilities and it's management should be partly blamed ... unfortunately, the operating license of Vanderbilt University Hospital was not suspended, nor were the people in management positions named as part of the "accused" for command responsibility.... so from an outsider, the nurse appears "guilty", but from an insider's point of view, it paints a different picture. So for your assignment, try to find out if 17 is too much, normal or minimal.
If you are in healhcare, you would realize that NOT all work situations/work conditions provided by healthcare facilities are ideal to healthcare workers (making them more prone to errors)........because if all situations are ideal, then there would be no mistakes. If medication "override" is NOT allowed in the safety system of Vanderbilt hospital, then this scenario would not have happened. Nurses always get the blame in the end, and yet the healthcare institution continous to operate.
@@insomniafiles6973 A nurse must be well concentrated to follow the prescribed drugs instructions regardless of work conditions. If you think a nurse cannot be sent to jail for killing a patient then who protects the sick person?
@@susanabrown7252 You missed my point, what I'm trying to say is - not only should the nurse be persecuted, but healthcare facilities as well and it's management ... like suspending the operating license of a facility X number of months, and making management personnel be liable as well for command-responsibility
@@insomniafiles6973 More inspections, suspension of the operating licenses, and closures of nursing homes are seen now because of the death of many elderly patients during the Covid19.
I’ve had to report a nurse who was caring for my loved one. After I confronted him about his mistakes he still was not listening. Some of these medical professionals can be arrogant, and you can’t behave that way when you have such a critical job.
Wow, that list of negligent actions is very apparent that she was negligent. I took medical assisting class for nine months and all of those were stated before you give any injection and after the injection is given and she neglected to do the most basic precautions and measures for inducing any medication. And double checking on the vials, is absolutely one of the first things you learned in nursing school or even a medical assisting class. And overriding any Procedure to reevaluate the medication or recording of what was given is extremely gross negligence! And the hospital actually said they override things on a daily basis! I would never go to that hospital if that's the way they run their business. These are not just innocent mistakes. These were intentional misaligned, ignored, and deliberately record changed and overriding from what she should've been doing.
She didn’t just make a mistake. She made several, with carelessness. I’m a nurse and I’m not in support of her. It may not have not been Intentional, but she made SO MANY errors. The simplest thing you can do is glance at what med you’re giving. She’s guilty.
If you are a nurse than you know already she did only a mistake and that was fatal.Otherwise you are just a talker …Pray that day will not gonna come for you too….. as a nurse when you will do a similar mistake or worse when you will be the patient …..
I just got fired from a place where the NP was ordering me to give medicine to a patient that caused her to be knocked out.I refused to take her order and also asked the patient.Patient refused to take that medication too.BUT this company fired me for doing the right thing.
You can die at home dw. Most medical staff or people studying medicine would tell you “try be more empathetic”, respectfully explaining you why you have 3 working brain cells but yeah fortunately I’m not like that. So you are pretty welcomed to pass your last days at home and not in a hospital
@Florida Violets Exactly. I haven’t watched this case yet but if they are going to start prosecuting for mistakes but not do anything to correct the very system that enabled this, there will be even more bad outcomes because people are going to quit.
@@lisaeischens2352 which would be GOOD because that would be less elective procedures and only emergency medicine so less medicine=less error. I’m basing this off of a study I read about where the elective procedures were eliminated in a town for a period and the death rate actually went DOWN.
@@elenamichaels9658 elective procedures are not unnecessary procedures. For example, gallbladder removal, hip replacement, and knee replacements can all fall under the category of elective procedures. People generally don't want to wait until their knees are bone one bone to have them replaced. I haven't read the study you mentioned but one could assume that the death rate went down because there were no surgeries. I work as an ER nurse now but I've also worked in surgery for 5 year. In 5 years I saw 2 deaths in a surgery in a level 2 trauma center. Emergency only medicine does not equal less error. There is a lot of pressure in a busy ER, which presents an opportunity to make mistakes.
This wasn't overconfidence, or ignorance.. these hospitals need to get their technology up to date that medications can be accessible when a patient needs them.. this was day in and day out of pharmacy not coming to fix the pixies, medication not being sent to the unit, nursing shortage, being floated to a unit you don't work on, and a nurse that just wanted to get through her shift.. every nurse on that unit overrode medication all day long because the system is so slow and you can't take care of your patients because nothing works right.
She makes a mistake and admitted to it while working 365 days a year and lands in jail. A football or basketball player throws an interception or misses the last second shot and gets 6-7 month vacation while making millions every year. Mistakes happen. I guess she was better off collecting EBT and living off the government than going to work and being honest about her mistake. Kids, don't listen to what you hear about being transparent and honest. You might regret it like this nurse did
It's unbelievable how ppl think mistakes can just be swept under the rug, even when someone dies, anyone who thinks this is excusable, I don't want them taking care of me.
@@JS-zb1vv well everyone is entitled to an opinion weather if it is right or wrong, as such explain why there was the need for Martin Luther King, and the events of George Floyd along with many others, but it's good to know that you are fine with unjustified killing as long as you cover it up.
@@orvillesett8257 has there not been laws changed for both of them? Excactly MLK changed the USA! Floyd was a joke a waste on society!! I guess you were ok with all of the Floyd protesters burning cities and killing people? I’m fine with anyone protesting anything they want it is a right in this country as long as it’s peaceful!! Every single law has been written on behalf of someone else’s misfortune some laws are bad some are good!! Just like seatbelts and airbags in cars ! They didn’t have them! So many people were getting killed in their vehicles when safety devices were available! Now they are standard! See you don’t see any of the big pictures!! All you wanted to bring up was race !! Typical uneducated racist you are !!! You want change run for political office and change them !! Be a police chief or sheriff change the system!! But with your racist outlook you will not get anywhere!!
I have friends who are RN's and they've got through so much training, to do not make those kind of mistakes never the less 17, she made 17 mistakes... My heart to all the families, Mss. Murphy's and the nurse's.
She made 1 med error. These are all steps to the same medication administration. I promise your friends will or probably already have made a mistake. No one is perfect. We all have a ton of training in school and continued education after to renew our licenses. Just Google it, how many med errors happen each year.
Nurses can be held accountable. You are dealing with people, stay sharp and alert and read the chart. They teach this in nursing school. Nothing has changed. A simple question to the patient is "Did anyone give you medicine today?
I beg your pardon, but I'm a certified nursing assistant and I can't tell you how many people I've taken care of with short term memory issues who, five minutes after they've received their medicine, will say, "Its time for my medicine!" And I've had to gently remind them they just took it. You can't count on someone to remember everything accurately. That's why we document and let the nurse over us know what's going on.
@@pilotmburu Obviously you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. Let me explain: the nurse made a mistake, the patient is dead, buried in the ground. When a doctor/nurse makes a mistake and the patient dies, the patient is buried. Hence "doctors bury their mistakes." It's a very common quote that's been around since the 1800s.
@@codymontour7816 that's garbage because that's just 1 med administration. They broke it into all the steps. We ALL do overrides. Most places don't require 2 person checks for versed. She should be in trouble, yes, but not homicide.
Also, there's a procedure for errors and close calls to prevent them from happening to someone else. There's NO reason the med age gave should have even been stocked in a radiology pixis! You make nurses afraid of reporting these things and they'll just happen again. She was training another nurse, which is distracting in itself. There's more going on here than meets the eye and unless you're working as a nurse you don't get it....
The nurse says "I'm terrified that now I'm in a profession where God forbid I do make a mistake" ..... it's scary that she doesn't hold herself to higher standards.
Think about how the public feels. Who isn't terrified that now they might send their loved one for care to a profession where "God forbid" they make a mistake.
Unfortunately, this is very Real... people make horrible mistakes in hospitals... if you have a loved one in the hospital, be attentive, keep notes from the Doctor, do your homework and be attentive, specially when nurses are replaced, they tend to forget to write on the board the medicine already given to the patient, and the new nurse might try to give a patient another dose... that happened to my father and almost cost him his life that day.
I am an RN but I don't work in patient care anymore. Long hours, dangerously low staffing ratios, and a culture of 'do more with less' all contribute to a dangerous environment. Yes, nurses are trained to double and triple check, but being overworked and understaffed take away the ability of nurses to spend the time required to do this. It is horrible that this happened, but now nurses (already an endangered species) have to worry every day that they will make a mistake and end up losing not only their livelihood, but their freedom. The nursing profession will suffer as a whole for this. 😞
These things happen all the time they are usually covered up. As a health care professional myself there are many departments were people do not care about the patients and it’s sad. I treat every patient as my child. I’ve seen patients blood types mistyped. Wrong samples resulted . Of course people are written up but how many mistakes do you allow before terminating someone. I’m sure being a nurse is difficult but some don’t take the job serious just there for the money. One nurse father came to the ER his lab values were elevated he was discharged and died shortly after at home. I would never use the hospital I work at for a serious situation at sad to say.
Like Im nursing school and yes partly for the income but when I’m taking care of patients money is the furthest thing from my mind. Like HELLO peoples actual lives are in our hands!!
@@hiboahmed8876 Personally I find that nurses do the job of two-and-a-half people. I don't think they get paid nearly enough for the crap that they have to put up with.. the constant stress of having your license on the line, the Press Ganeys, constant documenting, the staffing.. it's nonstop!
Good !! I don’t care what anybody says . I’m a nurse and that was one hundred percent unacceptable. You can make a mistake . We are humans but that is ridiculous mistake to make . I have no sympathy .
Before watching the video, I was open-minded, thinking that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Then, I saw the list of 17 mistakes she made with this one medication. All those checks were ignored. It seems like she just rushed and didn’t pay attention at all. She needs to be held responsible. If this happened to one of my loved ones, I’d be pressing charges. She took a life with her negligence.
As a lay person it is easy to make judgments about something you know nothing about. Until you’re in it you don’t truly know or understand the situation.
@@user-kp6we9qw7i haaaa I may be in a different feild, but I'm in the medical feild. There is protocol. PERIOD. Lethals have a bright red circle usually so you pretty much have to be brain dead to make a mistake😒
Exactly I can understand if it’s was one because everyone makes a mistake. However to make 17 of them in such a short time is unacceptable and should be jailed.
How can nurses work in an environment that expects proficiency amid a working environment or working condition that does not provide the ideal safety conditions 100% of the time.
On a different video about this case a nurse said to me " nurses make hundreds of mistakes " this made me feel very afraid of the entire situation. You should be ever vigilant while dealing with life or death. There should absolutely be consequences for killing someone.
Please listen now…at the end we all make mistakes in our lives…and work because we are human beings and not any robots. I am not defending her but there is something called system error . One nurse for many patients, overpressure and workload on nurse, understaffing, etc. if this is what happens for making a human error which anybody could have made even you if you were a nurse, maybe not this and someother,,nurses will start quitting after this.
Every healthcare UA-camr that I’ve seen has said that this could’ve easily been them. Even doctors. It’s easy to judge but nursing is an incredibly stressful job with long hours and it’s easy to make mistakes. Putting people in jail is just gonna discourage even more people from becoming nurses which will put more pressure and longer hours on current nurses
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk did you know that they did a study of a town where they eliminated elective procedures and the death rate went down? So yes reducing the nurse supply would be great, their work only lines their and hospitals pockets, with less medicine, there would only be emergency medicine which would reduce error by a wide margin simply by reducing medicine
If you work at a pizza place you might put on the wrong toppings when you work at a factory you might ship bad parts when you work as a nurse your mistake might end up costing a life it's sad for sure but it just goes to show the gravity and responsibility of being a nurse. We can't criminally punish people for being human however in cases where there is blatant disregard for policies intended to minimize mistakes then I think we're at least bordering grounds for criminal prosecution.
I am a Nurse (retired) this is wrong. There are repercussions for neglect. If that is the case these should apply. Your going to worsen the nursing shortage. And place blame instead of examining and addressing the REAL ISSUES.
I do not know the full details of this case. My opinion is of a generalized opinion of Healthcare, our lack of respect for elder care. The atrocious scenes I myself have seen in numerous nursing homes. Vilified nurses are not going to fix the problem.
This is why I left bedside nursing and I am never going back. I happy with my Quality Assurance RN position. I check the books and make sure all the rules and regulations are being followed.
Sure you're making sure nurses doing the quality nursing but you don't check if hospitals are staffing their hospitals to make your rules and regulations are being followed.
@@suskagusip1036 Not all nurses work in hospitals. I have no control over what others do in their organization. I manage where I work- Understanding this should not be rocket science.
I wonder if the people defending her would feel the same way if it was their family member who died, We all know the answer. You people are hypocrites.
As a patient who is frequently hospitalized this is not a mistake this is gross negligence. I don’t know how Vanderbilt operates but most hospitals have protocols in place so stuff like this doesn’t happen. Why didn’t she check the patient’s wrist band and scan it. That med that she gave is given as part of the cocktail they give if you need to be intubated or having surgery. She really wasn’t paying attention to make a mistake like that. When I’m getting meds I’m scanned and asked for my name and birthdate. Then they ask me about my allergies then let me know exactly what they’re giving me and the order in which I’m receiving them. How does something like this happen? I may could have a bit more understanding if this was an emergency situation but the environment was well controlled. This didn’t have to happen.
Nurses at my job are always on their phones, talking about what they are going to order online, neglecting or completely ignoring patients asking for help or gossiping about other women instead of doing their jobs. Wouldn't surprise me if she did this too before she killed this woman.
Females are like that at every place of business, doesn't matter if it's a police station a fire station or a hospital lol that's why they'll never take over the world they'll be too busy talking about nails and other women on their cell phones to actually rule over the world anyway
Let me get this straight... DUI and texting while driving kills someone probation, honest medical error who's practicing license gets removed is 3-5 jail time???
Medical mistakes happen on a daily basis. It is not as rare as most people think. If every nurse is criminally prosecuted every time they make a medical mistake there would be no nurses left in the hospital to care for the patients. Every nurse has made a medical mistake. If they tell you they have not then they are on day one as a nurse. To err is human. Thankfully most mistakes are not deadly. This should only be a medical malpractice issue, not a criminal issue. That is what the uproar is about.
@@user-kp6we9qw7i This was a severe case, but medicine (subculture) is both sociopathic & fascist. I say, what they do to their patients should be done to their loved ones, in circumstance an in degree. Of course this is unenforceable but they need to learn right from wrong and what their mistakes cost others before they are absolved.
We’re terrified of leaving a healthcare system with even fewer nurses than they already have. Terrified nurses will be too scared to admit mistakes so that the process can improve to keep patients safer. I’m not terrified of being held accountable, I’d venture to say, most nurses would be so devastated and remorseful that they’d hold themselves accountable. Am I terrified of prison time when I’m only trying to help? YES! Wouldn’t you be? What other profession risks criminal charges? She isn’t dangerous, she isn’t a criminal. Prison time is ludicrous. There are other ways nurses are held accountable for their mistakes.
@@totaldramapreppy this was in her timeline. Maybe her prison experience will help her grow as a person. As it did mine. Why do you act like prison is like a death sentence which is like what she gave her patient?
The nurse was empowered to override so she took it at her discretion. It is a malpractice, a judgment error to override. It is not homicide that is defined as deliberate killing.
@@spignetti , yes, medicine is behind giant secured glass cabinets, every pill bottle/packet automatically counted when removed or added with ID codes. They’re saying she made 17 other similar mistakes…
The error of one is the error of all. An error of this degree clearly demonstrates there is a systemic error, therefore she shouldn’t be the scapegoat. It would be different if done purposely, which is not the case here.
BOTH the nurse AND the faculties NEED to be held responsible.... as a nurse you SHOULD be CONSTANTLY verifying ANY meds you're giving to ANY patient even if it takes you 5 times to verify AND the IF the facility was allowing them to do the overrides all willy nilly THAT'S A BIG issue also.... the other question though is, was it the faculty that was allowing the nurses to do the overrides or the actual facility owners and also this is showing where monitoring your employees is VERY VERY LACKING and I can not fathom how lacking they were in a place that is GIVING patients medication when this is the PRIME example as to why certain fields NEED stricter supervision
Kind of like the way bobo the potato biden ordered the “righteous drone strike” that murdered 7 children and an aide worker? So no, obviously a mistake that kills a person is just fine I guess.
@@deplorablefederalist7908 I am not defending Biden, but there is a difference between a war zone and a hospital. We all expect to be safe in a hospital. Besides double-checking the drugs, the nurse must explain to the patient what the drug is for and possible adverse reactions.
If I were the patient, it's not only the nurses fault but also the healthcare institutions fault (including those in management positions) because of lapses in their safety procedures. If Vanderbilt hospital did not allow medication "override" in their safety system procedure, then nothing like this would have happened. Nurses always get the blame for working in a healthcare institution that does not provide the ideal safe work environement and working conditions, and yet when something fails, the nurse gets the blame while the healthcare facility continues to operate , and all those in hospital management positions continue to work.
Absolutely. These comments…are unnerving. Y’all do realize nurses will leave healthcare. And we’re already so short. We can’t demand staff that doesn’t exist. No one should go to prison for a mistake. This is a license/malpractice issue. There should be consequences but not prison. I’m really unnerved by the comments from people we pour our hearts and souls into trying to keep safe. She isn’t a danger to society. This is not a criminal issue.
@@totaldramapreppy if you're a nurse and you make mistakes that lead to a patients death that isn't a criminal issue?? Well just like you're biased to take the side of the nurse I'm on the side of the patient that didnt ask for death!
This is disgusting. It was an accident. Meanwhile there's people actually out here killing people. It's enough she lost her job and license. Why put this charge.
After I had survived nursing over 20 years on 9/11 I got a job at one of these profit-based corporate nursing homes in Denver. I was really excited to get this job because I was going to be a staff development coordinator teaching young nurses and CNAs. On 9/11 as that second building was coming down I went into this place to start my new job. I punched in sat down in this great big obese male Dons office. Within just a few seconds he got a phone call and he sat and casually listened and then he hung up the phone.. he says to me casually like this is an everyday thing "I'm going to show you how to report a nurse to the board." So as I sat here this story unfolds this young new graduate nurse also got her good nature and desire to help people taken advantage of and he convinced her because of this forever so-called nurse shortage to stay over from the evening shift and do a 16-hour shift when she was just a graduate nurse! So around the time the first building got hit she was passing out medications absolutely exhausted you can hardly stand after you've done that. She gave the wrong patient methadone and killed him. She came into the office with us hysterical and crying because that's every nurse's worst nightmare. She tried to defend herself and say "I was trying to help because it was so short stuff here and you asked me to." He casually says well I'm sorry and she left crying knowing her life and career probably over once the lawyers jump on this. Then this disgusting piece of work called a nurse and director of nurses has the audacity to say to me "I'm going to need you to go out there and take her place"☠️ almost instantly I knew better than that I just stood up and said you know what I've got to go I went and punched out. Then I punched out of nursing when you see a nurse do that to another nurse so casually matter of factly like he expected it it's something he does frequently. Another thing this doesn't just happen at this nursing home. It happens everywhere. I've always heard about this horror story but never experienced it. I can't tell you how many jobs I've lost in nursing or been run off of because I follow the law and I refuse to take assignments three times more patients than I can handle, 16 hour shifts passing out medications, refuse to float to ICU when I'm working in pediatrics or rehab or somewhere. Nurses are just legal scapegoats for the entire hospital or healthcare facility. Another time I was in a big Baptist hospital on a postpartum unit handing out meds when jayco was there to inspect the hospital. Routinely I was handing out this little white pill that came in a blister pack I can't remember the name of it but we gave it to mothers that would want to bottle feed to dry up their milk. I had been given in this out all over the unit without really looking at that white pill but then I looked at it real close and it wasn't the usual pill in that package. I went and looked this pill up in the PDR and guess what it was- sorbitrate a cardiac medication! Of course I immediately took the evidence and the PDR into my nurse supervisor well she was trying to make good impressions and she was angry that I discovered this medication error! Especially during the inspection! The pharmacy tech had packaged the wrong medication in those blister packs. Like I said do not do nursing to yourself unless you love abuse of every kind.
She made a huge mistake and she needs to answer for it. If a physician killed a patient due to a mistake, he would also be held responsible. These nurses think that they have some special privilege because they ARE nurses, that they are invincible or untouchable because of the work they do. If being a nurse is too stressful, then find a new profession. It certainly doesn’t held that many of these “RN’s” only have associates degrees and not the traditional BSN’s, it’s putting patients at risk.
I've worked in Pharmacy for 18yrs and it's constant go go go. God forbid we make a mistake also. Patients and management act as if it's a McDonald's drive thru . I raised 2 nurses and worry all the time.
@@htorrez1 People act as if they're literally trusting these people with their lives and don't want a million protocols broken and them to be killed. I get it must be a super hard and demanding job but these are peoples lives on the line.
I went to a ER sick as a dog. I told them I have CHF and a few other conditions.... and they still prescribed me Erythromycin 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ Thank God my mother works in the medical field too and caught it. That med could of killed me because of my CHF if I would've taken it. I had to wait the weekend sick and go to my primary care doctor 😕 I'm pretty sure that was right after they said for heart condition patients not to take it because it had killed others
Dont become a dr, nurse, cop, lawyer, etc if you dont want to be held to a higher standard than everyone else, simple. When you have ppls lives in your hands, you MUST be diligent! 🤷🏿♀️
She made too many mistakes. She should know as a nurse to check everything to make sure she is giving the right medication and for that she is responsible and should be accountable. She should've known better.
@@exiledhebrew1994 yes! In nursing school, there are 6 rights and 2 of those 6 are right of medicine, right of patient ..and so on. She needs to be accountable, loose her license, and be in jail. I could understand if noone died but someone died bc of her mistakes. She broke so many mistakes it's unfathomable. She should've known better. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me", " fool me 17x, the girl is guilty".
At first I thought, man it must be really scary to be a nurse if you can be charged criminally when you make an honest mistake... then I watched the video. I don't understand how this qualifies as neglect, at a certain point it seems pretty intentional. How does one "accidentally" override the system in order to administer the wrong medication?
idk i dont feel sympathy for someone that accidently kills someone because they couldnt do their job properly. I had a cousin who was a pharmacy tech, she made one mistake giving out the wrong meds to the wrong patients... immediate termination. No hesitation, she could have killed someone with that "honest mistake".
@@impendingeuphoria8802 Everyone makes mistakes. In the US, I see how they overstress and overwork our nurses. At some point a human body starts to break down. The mind starts to break down. Patients die every day because of our diseased work culture.
This is absolutely a tragedy that the patient lost her life....the nurse reported her error and took responsibility....however, after this verdict. I fear future mistakes/ close calls will no longer be reported by the nursing staff due to fear of retaliation or criminal conviction... Which is a very scary thought...
Vecuronium is only on emergency crash trolleys and operating theatres.in Australia. How could you give it on a ward ? Five rights ?????? Check check check check and check again. But as an ex nurse I know errors happen. Panadol vs Panadeine for example .But that drug ? Hmmm. Terribly sad for the nurse patient and family. 😕
I've seen nurses where I worked in different places accidentally give the wrong meds but they did realize it and correct it before a life was lost but it happens
My mom was given wrong medication too. The nurse let my mom swallow the lozenge instead of letting her sip. when i point it out she reason out its ok. It can be swallowed too. Then what are lozenge are for if you will swallow it. Also it will not be effective. It was just lozenge, what if it was a dangerous drug? Tell me Its ok?
I remember once being at a doctor's appointment and the nurse told me she had to pee so bad, but couldn't take a break because she needed to catch up on what she was doing.
Hey l have been there. So overwhelmed, especially when the pandemic was at its highest. Can’t take a bathroom break , forget about eating. It’s rough. No support from administration, They are walking around with their suits, and high heels 👠 to help the nurse at the bedside. And quick to write you up for stupid BS. And they wonder why NURSES are leaving their profession. Almost forgot you now have to take the trash/ laundry out. It’s a joke
Yea that’s the kind of nurse who is on social media, gossiping, and complaining while on her breaks and lunches, instead of using the restroom and prioritizing her day 🍎
As a nurse, I still don't understand how vec, a medicine used only in surgery, was available on the unit or was among the medicines that a nurse can override?
Back in the day vecuronium was in the fridge in the ICU. And was an override med because we used it for rapid intubation. After this incident, the process was changed and vec was placed in the “intubation kit” in the Pyxis. You could still override, but you had to select intubation kit. That made this particular error less likely. I remember when this happened, and I knew how easy it would be to pull this med incorrectly. But I still don’t understand how she reconstituted it without realizing it was the wrong drug.
Vec is not a drug used only in surgery. It is commonly used in the ICU’s. It is used for intubation or to paralyze someone who was already on a ventilator
I have seen some horrible nursing in my long career and some great ones the bad yes need to be held accountable for their mistakes like anything else I could be here all nite what I have witness every time I put my life in anyone’s hands I pray sad situation 💙🙏🏿
That's Socialized Medicine for you. One of the main points of Government health care is to murder people: "Survival of the Fittest," and all that.
Right, Vec is used for RSI. However in many places it is not just locked in a medicine machine, but also placed within an RSI tool box.
This is a perfect example of how important it is to always confirm the “6 Rights”. All my medical people will understand. I work in EMS and it is so so important to make sure that we are giving the right medicine, to the right patient, with the right dose, at the right time. They can’t stress that enough in med school
That's 5
@@FL-gg4dq I didn’t list all of them obviously
@Natosha withanO You are correct! I’m a paramedic!🙋♂️🙂
@Natosha withanO same concept hun
@@FL-gg4dq and I actually listed 4💀😉
I've seen/experienced a lot of medical mistakes. No one is ever held accountable.
If a patient fails to do their part, they are noted as 'non-compliant', yet if med staff fails to do their's, it's covered up.
Well said! I’ve tried and tried to see this from both sides and I can’t. This nurse was neglectful and should be punished for it. A woman is dead. I need everyone supporting her to remember that.
The only people who covered it up was the hospital Vanderbilt University Hospital. Not the nurse she admitted her error immediately. Two of Vanderbilt hospitals neurologists said the patient died of natural causes. Not one but two. They lied to save Vanderbilt and now who is on the hook. The nurse is.
1st I thought "For a sincere mistake?" But that list of mistakes shows this was more neglectful than sincere mistake esp 16 & 17. People in other industries also have a duty to follow safety protocols & most are there for valid reasons. They aren't meant to be skipped over.
Exactly
I thought the same thing. She’s going to prison for 1 mistake but then the attorney general explaining they are not attack for just 1 mistake but a freaking laundry list that led to that patient’s death? Simple protocols are there for a reason.
Exactly
@@DisneyWitch22 That’s what I’m trying to get people to understand. People are saying she made just one mistake by getting the wrong drug. However she didn’t do the things she was supposed to do before giving and after giving the drug. Things that could’ve helped her realize that she had done.
None of the other industries you mention end up with those responsible prosecuted and jailed. Ever. They are rich and powerful with well paid lawyers.
She is a worker who made a mistake. A big one.
This is a double standard unless we have builders of collapsed buildings and bridges jailed for their illegal actions .
Seaside Condominiums collapse to name just one example.
Look up what happens in the USA if a business actions cause death. They pay a fine. Nobody ever goes to jail. Unless some underling can be blamed of course.
If a hospital gives a nurse the power to override the medication dispenser, wouldn't it be the hospital's responsibility as well? Isn't that a malpractice thing?
Of course hospital had bunch of lawyers that nurses have to sign so they’re free from their negligence. Hospitals are really ugly when it comes to denials of any mistakes they made and they (their team of lawyers and damage control admins) even train doctors and nurses to lie and what to say and what not to say. So hospitals are covered. They make mistakes all the time and even then most of the time patients don’t know. I’m glad this nurse was held accountable for making 17 mistakes. Ridiculous actually how grossly negligent she was.
@@KittenBowl1, I was not aware that she made that many mistakes.
Money talks , hospital did not even report to the state the med error. They fired the nurse immediately to avoid the problem
Been nursing for 30 years. It is ALWAYS the nurse’s responsibility to verify that the right medication is being administered. This was not an override problem or a Pyxis problem; Radonda Vaught did not look at what she was administering!
@@teresaoutlaw178 That kind of medication shouldn’t be accessible to floor staff especially through an override. That is just an accident waiting to happen and it did.
What's done is done.
It's sad for all those involved, especially for the family that lost a loved one.
I only wish the same level of expedient accountability would be dished out to corrupt politicians, police, Supreme Court Justices, presidents, et al.
I agree whole heartily
i agree.
AMEN
This woman didn’t deserve this! Police officers who actually murder on purpose do deserve this and more! Yet look how hard and how long it takes to do anything, if anything is done at all. They just wanted to put a blame on someone rather than the hospital taking responsibility and fixing the actual problem! The system failed her!!!!!!!! She should have only lost her license, plus she will have to live with this for the rest of her life… if I were the other RN’s I would find another hospital, this one will blame their medical staff for anything that goes wrong. This is a very dangerous decision for any nurse or medical worker.
What about the doctor, the pharmacy, the nursing director, the hospital administrators and the patient herself? Why would a doctor order a Versed just to get the patient for a test? I may not have read the full story but it looks like the patient was restless while undergoing a test in imaging. All I know we only give Versed in the OR or during/after a procedure. Why order in in imaging area? Patient can have so many side effects and there's no one to monitor there, no Nurse in imaging areas, no monitor. They're blood pressure can drop so fast, they can get dizzy, there's no scanner to check counter check the medications.
I have been a nurse for 30 years. I have seen a lot of careless , uncaring, unconscientious nurses . Many of these nurses aren't emotionally affected by their mistakes . Sad but true!
I have had manny nurses some motherly others helpful but one particular nurse i will never forget put the needle in so bad and then blamed me, i didn't complain because i was worried she would hurt my baby, she gave me medicine that she said would help me relax but it knock me out,she ignored my call for help because i kept needing to go to the bathroom to use and vomit, i realized the medicine was more about her then me but i was able to rest, i was so happy when she left i couldn't believe she was a nurse, but i am thankful for all nurses even tho it's hard to except a horrible mistake too bad some mistakes can't be reversed.
I wouldn't be able to do a nurses job because I can feel other people's feelings. I am the last person who could be a first responder. I thought I hurt a lizard the other week in the yard and I screamed at the top of my lungs and ran away, freaking out, without even seeing if it was hurt or not because I just couldn't. It's very embarrassing to be saying this. So the fact that people can turn this off is very confusing to me. You seem like a great nurse. Thank you for being one of the best.
Yup
very true, I saw that a lot working in healthcare
The amount, type and severity of errors reflect willful or intentional "not caring" besides incompetence, and should be punished. it's not like on mistake was made. The patient died unnecessarily. The nurse is incompetent, and her license should be rescinded, and never practice nursing again.
I have been an RN for over 10 yrs, I worked all over the states. I prayed 🙏 to all my saints everyday I walk through a hospital door, I took care of humans in their more vulnerable state of life,I cried when I had used the body bags to send my friend to the morgue...nursing is Not easy, it took my soul 💔 it broke my heart ,is not just a job you can do. 17 mistakes in less than 5 minutes! I read the list and it breaks my heart again 💔 😢
She made 17 mistakes in five minutes? Can u pin the list of mistakes in the comments so we can see them.
Thats too many. She definitely deserves to be charged.
@@jhnyjoejoe69 ya I agree. that’s no accident
@@codymontour7816 oh so she purposely killed the patient is what you are saying 🙄!? The system failed her!!!! Prob was overworked too! She was also training someone at the same time… Lost of license sure, jail time give me a fb! The family isn’t even pressing charges as of yet, do you wonder why? I do hope they sue the hospital for millions!!!!
@@user-bv7mk8id5t do I think she purposely killed her no. However if it’s true that he made 17 mistakes in 5 mistakes that’s no accident and prison is necessary. Whether a mistake or intentional no one is above the law regardless the profession.
This is not one mistake. This is full of mistakes.
yup !!!
And alot of nurses have quit the medical field due to the hanging of this nurse. Have fun taking care of your parents as they get older. Quality nurses won't be around for much longer
17 to be exact
@@MinhPham-vg6bw calm down
@@Buzz0Killington this is the truth
As a former nurse, she literally VIOLATED EVERY RULE you are taught. Not only in school, but at 99.9% of hospitals. Right PATIENT, right MEDICATION, and right DOSAGE... If you had to "override" everything to get a PARALYTIC medication, and you still proceeded to give it... You shouldn't be a nurse because you're either stupid, or you have a Good complex and think you know everything. Either way, I have no sympathy for her mistake. These nurses that think the rules don't apply because they're these amazing front line workers, give the profession a bad name.
You said it yourself it’s a mistake. She didn’t override everything. She thought it was the right medication and right dose. It was a MISTAKE. That’s what it means to make a MISTAKE.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Well said.
Exactly 💯
We regularly override meds in some areas.
as a nurse you are always under pressure. with medication especially injectables you read the bottle when you take it out of the cabinet, read it again at syringe draw up, read again plus verify dosage to record it in the patient's chart and read it again when you put the medication back in cabinet. a person's life is always in your hands and you have to be correct. the pay for nurses are competitive it depends on location and or city, town.
If conditions provided by healthcare facilities are not ideal, healthcare workers cannot function in the ideal way....we all know in theory what is ideal, but in the real world, healthcare facilities don't provide the ideal situation to prevent errors
She made 17 mistakes. a patient's life doesn't matter? the hospital needs to take responsibility for lives lost due to negligence. there should never be an excuse for killings like this.
@@vanisri9042 she should NOT get jail time though! Lost of license sadly yes! But they trying to put blame again on the smaller person. The system that they use failed! The hospital managers, CEO’s are responsible too!!!
Then you should understand! You should be very worried! Very very worried! My spouse sure is! Lucky we are in NY though and not Tennessee!
@@vanisri9042 If you're an insider in the healthcare industry, you would know what 17 means. Is that too many, normal or minimal? That's for you to find out. Healthcare institutions don't make working conditions safer for healthcare workers due to greed for more profit. So in this case, healthcare facilities and it's management should be partly blamed ... unfortunately, the operating license of Vanderbilt University Hospital was not suspended, nor were the people in management positions named as part of the "accused" for command responsibility.... so from an outsider, the nurse appears "guilty", but from an insider's point of view, it paints a different picture. So for your assignment, try to find out if 17 is too much, normal or minimal.
Those procedures that the nurse (and apparently her hospital) ignored are what protects the patients and the caregivers.
If you are in healhcare, you would realize that NOT all work situations/work conditions provided by healthcare facilities are ideal to healthcare workers (making them more prone to errors)........because if all situations are ideal, then there would be no mistakes. If medication "override" is NOT allowed in the safety system of Vanderbilt hospital, then this scenario would not have happened. Nurses always get the blame in the end, and yet the healthcare institution continous to operate.
@@insomniafiles6973 A nurse must be well concentrated to follow the prescribed drugs instructions regardless of work conditions. If you think a nurse cannot be sent to jail for killing a patient then who protects the sick person?
@@susanabrown7252 You missed my point, what I'm trying to say is - not only should the nurse be persecuted, but healthcare facilities as well and it's management ... like suspending the operating license of a facility X number of months, and making management personnel be liable as well for command-responsibility
@@susanabrown7252 You are talking someting that exists in an "ideal" world..... which is different from the "real" world.
@@insomniafiles6973 More inspections, suspension of the operating licenses, and closures of nursing homes are seen now because of the death of many elderly patients during the Covid19.
I’ve had to report a nurse who was caring for my loved one. After I confronted him about his mistakes he still was not listening. Some of these medical professionals can be arrogant, and you can’t behave that way when you have such a critical job.
Wow, that list of negligent actions is very apparent that she was negligent. I took medical assisting class for nine months and all of those were stated before you give any injection and after the injection is given and she neglected to do the most basic precautions and measures for inducing any medication. And double checking on the vials, is absolutely one of the first things you learned in nursing school or even a medical assisting class. And overriding any Procedure to reevaluate the medication or recording of what was given is extremely gross negligence! And the hospital actually said they override things on a daily basis! I would never go to that hospital if that's the way they run their business. These are not just innocent mistakes. These were intentional misaligned, ignored, and deliberately record changed and overriding from what she should've been doing.
She didn’t just make a mistake. She made several, with carelessness. I’m a nurse and I’m not in support of her. It may not have not been Intentional, but she made SO MANY errors. The simplest thing you can do is glance at what med you’re giving. She’s guilty.
If you are a nurse than you know already she did only a mistake and that was fatal.Otherwise you are just a talker …Pray that day will not gonna come for you too….. as a nurse when you will do a similar mistake or worse when you will be the patient …..
I just got fired from a place where the NP was ordering me to give medicine to a patient that caused her to be knocked out.I refused to take her order and also asked the patient.Patient refused to take that medication too.BUT this company fired me for doing the right thing.
Good for you ! Never sell out, no matter what.
I'm proud of you did the right thing 👍
Dude she didn’t just make a mistake she blatantly ignored hospital protocol.
@Sean yep
What’s scary to me is the amount of nursing support she had!!!
Think about this the next time you’re at any medical facility…
They killed my mom and sister! They don't give a fuc*!!!!!!!!
They basically support each other’s f-ups
I’m scared to death to ever be in a hospital
You can die at home dw. Most medical staff or people studying medicine would tell you “try be more empathetic”, respectfully explaining you why you have 3 working brain cells but yeah fortunately I’m not like that. So you are pretty welcomed to pass your last days at home and not in a hospital
This sounds like a situation where they were too busy talking to pay attention
Doing a tik tok probably
@Florida Violets Exactly. I haven’t watched this case yet but if they are going to start prosecuting for mistakes but not do anything to correct the very system that enabled this, there will be even more bad outcomes because people are going to quit.
@@lisaeischens2352 which would be GOOD because that would be less elective procedures and only emergency medicine so less medicine=less error. I’m basing this off of a study I read about where the elective procedures were eliminated in a town for a period and the death rate actually went DOWN.
@@elenamichaels9658 elective procedures are not unnecessary procedures. For example, gallbladder removal, hip replacement, and knee replacements can all fall under the category of elective procedures. People generally don't want to wait until their knees are bone one bone to have them replaced. I haven't read the study you mentioned but one could assume that the death rate went down because there were no surgeries. I work as an ER nurse now but I've also worked in surgery for 5 year. In 5 years I saw 2 deaths in a surgery in a level 2 trauma center. Emergency only medicine does not equal less error. There is a lot of pressure in a busy ER, which presents an opportunity to make mistakes.
She didn’t make a mistake. She made several mistakes.
This nurse didn't make just a mistake, she ignored protocol and broke 17 hospital rules. I believe ignorance and overconfidence was in play as well.
And we know that hospital rules are ALWAYS consistent and never contradictory. Yeah, sure. That is why there is an OVERRIDE system.
This wasn't overconfidence, or ignorance.. these hospitals need to get their technology up to date that medications can be accessible when a patient needs them.. this was day in and day out of pharmacy not coming to fix the pixies, medication not being sent to the unit, nursing shortage, being floated to a unit you don't work on, and a nurse that just wanted to get through her shift.. every nurse on that unit overrode medication all day long because the system is so slow and you can't take care of your patients because nothing works right.
SEVENTEEN ?!?!?!?! List them ALLL …. NOW
probably that, and the fact that nurses like to go to work with about two or three hours of sleep. one reason I no longer do the job
She makes a mistake and admitted to it while working 365 days a year and lands in jail. A football or basketball player throws an interception or misses the last second shot and gets 6-7 month vacation while making millions every year. Mistakes happen. I guess she was better off collecting EBT and living off the government than going to work and being honest about her mistake.
Kids, don't listen to what you hear about being transparent and honest. You might regret it like this nurse did
It's unbelievable how ppl think mistakes can just be swept under the rug, even when someone dies, anyone who thinks this is excusable, I don't want them taking care of me.
Exactly! People should not be practicing in Healthcare.
Nurses are ok to prosecute, but police are exempt.
True.
FACTS
Nobody has ever been exempt!! You just got to figure out how to cover your tracks better ! But I’m sure you are oppressed
@@JS-zb1vv well everyone is entitled to an opinion weather if it is right or wrong, as such explain why there was the need for Martin Luther King, and the events of George Floyd along with many others, but it's good to know that you are fine with unjustified killing as long as you cover it up.
@@orvillesett8257 has there not been laws changed for both of them? Excactly MLK changed the USA! Floyd was a joke a waste on society!! I guess you were ok with all of the Floyd protesters burning cities and killing people? I’m fine with anyone protesting anything they want it is a right in this country as long as it’s peaceful!! Every single law has been written on behalf of someone else’s misfortune some laws are bad some are good!! Just like seatbelts and airbags in cars ! They didn’t have them! So many people were getting killed in their vehicles when safety devices were available! Now they are standard! See you don’t see any of the big pictures!! All you wanted to bring up was race !! Typical uneducated racist you are !!! You want change run for political office and change them !! Be a police chief or sheriff change the system!! But with your racist outlook you will not get anywhere!!
I have friends who are RN's and they've got through so much training, to do not make those kind of mistakes never the less 17, she made 17 mistakes... My heart to all the families, Mss. Murphy's and the nurse's.
She made 1 med error. These are all steps to the same medication administration. I promise your friends will or probably already have made a mistake. No one is perfect. We all have a ton of training in school and continued education after to renew our licenses. Just Google it, how many med errors happen each year.
Only who doesn’t work, doesn’t make mistakes…..pray for your friends…..
Unless you are an actual nurse you wouldn’t truly understand what it’s like so yeah it’s one huge mistake and a system that failed her
@@meyminglam6107 That is why I said about my RN's friends training, and it was not one huge mistake, but 17, maybe after 1 there would still be hope.
@@xXxSapphir3xXx 17 mistakes
It completely baffles my mind how anyone can think that this nurse should not be punished for this. Her "mistake" killed someone. Period.
It was beyond a mistake she got careless and cocky
She deserves the chair⚡️
Nurses can be held accountable. You are dealing with people, stay sharp and alert and read the chart. They teach this in nursing school. Nothing has changed. A simple question to the patient is "Did anyone give you medicine today?
Not everyone is going to answer that correctly we all know that
Cannot rely on what patients say. Documents are everything.
I beg your pardon, but I'm a certified nursing assistant and I can't tell you how many people I've taken care of with short term memory issues who, five minutes after they've received their medicine, will say, "Its time for my medicine!" And I've had to gently remind them they just took it. You can't count on someone to remember everything accurately. That's why we document and let the nurse over us know what's going on.
As my dad always said "Doctors bury their mistakes."
No they don't. They pay their way out of death
@@pilotmburu Obviously you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. Let me explain: the nurse made a mistake, the patient is dead, buried in the ground. When a doctor/nurse makes a mistake and the patient dies, the patient is buried. Hence "doctors bury their mistakes." It's a very common quote that's been around since the 1800s.
They sure do. Doctors leave sponges , instruments in patients. Amputate the wrong extremity. They don’t go to prison.
I mean, that’s kind of an important thing to think about. Making “mistakes” can cost people their lives. That is nothing to blow over
A doctor and a pharmacist overdosed me as a child on ritalin. They absolutely need to pay more f__king attention to what they're doing.
@Tom Cruise Ya but to make 17 of them in 5 minutes is not a small mistake.
@@codymontour7816 that's garbage because that's just 1 med administration. They broke it into all the steps. We ALL do overrides. Most places don't require 2 person checks for versed. She should be in trouble, yes, but not homicide.
Also, there's a procedure for errors and close calls to prevent them from happening to someone else. There's NO reason the med age gave should have even been stocked in a radiology pixis! You make nurses afraid of reporting these things and they'll just happen again. She was training another nurse, which is distracting in itself. There's more going on here than meets the eye and unless you're working as a nurse you don't get it....
@@xXxSapphir3xXx You don't have to be a nurse to get it. Plenty of other non nurses do get it also.
Some jobs can't require mistakes..and unfortunately this Job is one
TRUTH.
@Dandy Lion 🦁 Teaching English, apparently.
Because human beings never make mistakes right?
@@maxalberts2003 😂😂😂
True
Thank God!
My dad died from the same negligence and barely anything happened to his killer.
The nurse says "I'm terrified that now I'm in a profession where God forbid I do make a mistake" ..... it's scary that she doesn't hold herself to higher standards.
Think about how the public feels. Who isn't terrified that now they might send their loved one for care to a profession where "God forbid" they make a mistake.
How many doctors are sent to prison?
You have no idea on the pressure and workload they have.
Wyte privilege
@@michaelblanchette2787 not enough
Unfortunately, this is very Real... people make horrible mistakes in hospitals... if you have a loved one in the hospital, be attentive, keep notes from the Doctor, do your homework and be attentive, specially when nurses are replaced, they tend to forget to write on the board the medicine already given to the patient, and the new nurse might try to give a patient another dose... that happened to my father and almost cost him his life that day.
I am an RN but I don't work in patient care anymore. Long hours, dangerously low staffing ratios, and a culture of 'do more with less' all contribute to a dangerous environment. Yes, nurses are trained to double and triple check, but being overworked and understaffed take away the ability of nurses to spend the time required to do this. It is horrible that this happened, but now nurses (already an endangered species) have to worry every day that they will make a mistake and end up losing not only their livelihood, but their freedom. The nursing profession will suffer as a whole for this. 😞
For every malpractice claim that is prosecuted, thousands are Not prosecuted and covered up. We are burning her in effigy.
Ya don’t blame everything on the nurses. Sometimes the system is to be blamed too
Errors are inevitable, but when they cost anothers life, someone needs to be held responsible for the error
These things happen all the time they are usually covered up. As a health care professional myself there are many departments were people do not care about the patients and it’s sad. I treat every patient as my child. I’ve seen patients blood types mistyped. Wrong samples resulted . Of course people are written up but how many mistakes do you allow before terminating someone. I’m sure being a nurse is difficult but some don’t take the job serious just there for the money. One nurse father came to the ER his lab values were elevated he was discharged and died shortly after at home. I would never use the hospital I work at for a serious situation at sad to say.
Coverup is when the media they dont even publish her name "Radonda Vaught" in the title | they do it for other trials.
Like Im nursing school and yes partly for the income but when I’m taking care of patients money is the furthest thing from my mind. Like HELLO peoples actual lives are in our hands!!
@@hiboahmed8876 Personally I find that nurses do the job of two-and-a-half people. I don't think they get paid nearly enough for the crap that they have to put up with.. the constant stress of having your license on the line, the Press Ganeys, constant documenting, the staffing.. it's nonstop!
What i dont agree most of what you say is that nurses work for the money - i was like, Are you ok? Hello! They are underpaid
Good !! I don’t care what anybody says . I’m a nurse and that was one hundred percent unacceptable. You can make a mistake . We are humans but that is ridiculous mistake to make . I have no sympathy .
That wasn't merely a "mistake" it was a chain of more than a dozen mistakes, and a lady paid the ultimate price for what was easily preventable.
Before watching the video, I was open-minded, thinking that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Then, I saw the list of 17 mistakes she made with this one medication. All those checks were ignored. It seems like she just rushed and didn’t pay attention at all. She needs to be held responsible. If this happened to one of my loved ones, I’d be pressing charges. She took a life with her negligence.
Jail is honestly not that bad
@@elenamichaels9658 Perhaps not for you. I would be miserable. No thank you, I like not being in prison.
Even one can and will land you in the big house. Even if was just one, she should be behind bars.
Kinda makes you wonder how many of them did an oopsie, killed a patient and got away with it
It's very hard to make a mistake like that. There is a bright warning label on it. She killed somone, she needs jail time
Praying it won't happen to you.
@@suskagusip1036 it wouldn't. 8m not a nurse
As a lay person it is easy to make judgments about something you know nothing about. Until you’re in it you don’t truly know or understand the situation.
@@user-kp6we9qw7i haaaa I may be in a different feild, but I'm in the medical feild. There is protocol. PERIOD. Lethals have a bright red circle usually so you pretty much have to be brain dead to make a mistake😒
Not jail time. Life without parole sounds better
I’m sorry that is why you went to school.
17 mistakes. Of course she should be jailed. That's not professionalism.
Exactly I can understand if it’s was one because everyone makes a mistake. However to make 17 of them in such a short time is unacceptable and should be jailed.
@@codymontour7816she doesn't belong in jail I'm going to I'm going to do a GoFundMe to get her out of jail and get the chargers completely drop
We should hold physicians criminally responsible for gaslighting patients to the point that their condition gets worse.
Well that's a serious mistake. Nurses should be competent enough to make sure they are putting the right drugs into a person
How can nurses work in an environment that expects proficiency amid a working environment or working condition that does not provide the ideal safety conditions 100% of the time.
On a different video about this case a nurse said to me " nurses make hundreds of mistakes " this made me feel very afraid of the entire situation. You should be ever vigilant while dealing with life or death. There should absolutely be consequences for killing someone.
Please listen now…at the end we all make mistakes in our lives…and work because we are human beings and not any robots. I am not defending her but there is something called system error . One nurse for many patients, overpressure and workload on nurse, understaffing, etc. if this is what happens for making a human error which anybody could have made even you if you were a nurse, maybe not this and someother,,nurses will start quitting after this.
@@ekamjotkaur7681 I do t mean any disrespect. Please forgive me. I do find it scary that ANY mistakes that cause death are very scary.
Every healthcare UA-camr that I’ve seen has said that this could’ve easily been them. Even doctors. It’s easy to judge but nursing is an incredibly stressful job with long hours and it’s easy to make mistakes. Putting people in jail is just gonna discourage even more people from becoming nurses which will put more pressure and longer hours on current nurses
@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk did you know that they did a study of a town where they eliminated elective procedures and the death rate went down? So yes reducing the nurse supply would be great, their work only lines their and hospitals pockets, with less medicine, there would only be emergency medicine which would reduce error by a wide margin simply by reducing medicine
If you work at a pizza place you might put on the wrong toppings when you work at a factory you might ship bad parts when you work as a nurse your mistake might end up costing a life it's sad for sure but it just goes to show the gravity and responsibility of being a nurse. We can't criminally punish people for being human however in cases where there is blatant disregard for policies intended to minimize mistakes then I think we're at least bordering grounds for criminal prosecution.
I am a Nurse (retired) this is wrong. There are repercussions for neglect. If that is the case these should apply. Your going to worsen the nursing shortage. And place blame instead of examining and addressing the REAL ISSUES.
She failed to do 17 things that could’ve helped prevent this from happening. That’s no mistake. The list is shown at 1:10 of the video.
I do not know the full details of this case. My opinion is of a generalized opinion of Healthcare, our lack of respect for elder care. The atrocious scenes I myself have seen in numerous nursing homes. Vilified nurses are not going to fix the problem.
I wouldn't even let her get to court if you cant pat attention when another person's health is in your hands then your in the wrong profession
This is why I left bedside nursing and I am never going back. I happy with my Quality Assurance RN position. I check the books and make sure all the rules and regulations are being followed.
Sure you're making sure nurses doing the quality nursing but you don't check if hospitals are staffing their hospitals to make your rules and regulations are being followed.
@@suskagusip1036 Not all nurses work in hospitals. I have no control over what others do in their organization. I manage where I work- Understanding this should not be rocket science.
Excellent,get rid of all the bad nurses. Hold them accountable. Level up or be gone.
There are good nurses & bad nurses. Good nurses double check everything before administering things to patients to avoid "accidents".
While a terrible tragedy, she should not be in jail. This is BS
They work those nurses to the breaking point and then say it’s their fault when they are exhausted
I’ve never seen a nurse pushed to the breaking point.
@@elenamichaels9658 “I’ve never seen something so it must not be real.” That’s what you sound like.
If a mechanic fu*ks up my car he's held responsible, i reckon a nurse should be too for her mistakes in her profession
With the obvious distinction that you can trade in your car for a new one, but you can’t trade in for a new body
She's a Nurse!!! She should know exactly what she's administering!! End of Story
Exactly
To err is human. There’s no human on this earth who has not made a mistake. Some mistakes are deadly and some are not but we all make mistakes.
@@user-kp6we9qw7i U should know exactly what ur pumping into an individual through a needle!!! Ur a Nurse!!! Pay Attention!! End of Story!!!
@@user-kp6we9qw7i agreed, except in this case where it was multiple errors.
EXACTLY. My mom's CNA gave her the same medication every day, and would still read the labels before giving it to her.
How did she have access to that drug !!!!
I wonder if the people defending her would feel the same way if it was their family member who died, We all know the answer. You people are hypocrites.
theyre comfortable in their cushy jobs.
the attitude every nurse there supporting her shows it.
True true
Hypocrites was the Greek god of medicine
Yes. I would.
@@janawright4296 Yeah right haha, either way it doesn't matter. The fact is her stupidity earned her a trip to prison and it's well deserved.
You just will have to double check and triple what's the problem the vial is in your hand,READ IT,READ it Again!
"Overriding" is done by nurses who are addicts. Extremely common.
As a patient who is frequently hospitalized this is not a mistake this is gross negligence. I don’t know how Vanderbilt operates but most hospitals have protocols in place so stuff like this doesn’t happen. Why didn’t she check the patient’s wrist band and scan it. That med that she gave is given as part of the cocktail they give if you need to be intubated or having surgery. She really wasn’t paying attention to make a mistake like that. When I’m getting meds I’m scanned and asked for my name and birthdate. Then they ask me about my allergies then let me know exactly what they’re giving me and the order in which I’m receiving them. How does something like this happen? I may could have a bit more understanding if this was an emergency situation but the environment was well controlled. This didn’t have to happen.
Nurses at my job are always on their phones, talking about what they are going to order online, neglecting or completely ignoring patients asking for help or gossiping about other women instead of doing their jobs. Wouldn't surprise me if she did this too before she killed this woman.
Females are like that at every place of business, doesn't matter if it's a police station a fire station or a hospital lol that's why they'll never take over the world they'll be too busy talking about nails and other women on their cell phones to actually rule over the world anyway
Nothing but the truth!!
I always see them posting on IG or TikTok
That poor Nurse.
But let's all forget about the DEAD patient.
Let me get this straight... DUI and texting while driving kills someone probation, honest medical error who's practicing license gets removed is 3-5 jail time???
No SEVENTEEN inept errors, actually
One my daughters worked at this hospital. Thank goodness she left. I had no idea all this crazy.
They’re terrified of being held accountable.
Medical mistakes happen on a daily basis. It is not as rare as most people think. If every nurse is criminally prosecuted every time they make a medical mistake there would be no nurses left in the hospital to care for the patients. Every nurse has made a medical mistake. If they tell you they have not then they are on day one as a nurse. To err is human. Thankfully most mistakes are not deadly. This should only be a medical malpractice issue, not a criminal issue. That is what the uproar is about.
@@user-kp6we9qw7i This was a severe case, but medicine (subculture) is both sociopathic & fascist. I say, what they do to their patients should be done to their loved ones, in circumstance an in degree. Of course this is unenforceable but they need to learn right from wrong and what their mistakes cost others before they are absolved.
We’re terrified of leaving a healthcare system with even fewer nurses than they already have. Terrified nurses will be too scared to admit mistakes so that the process can improve to keep patients safer. I’m not terrified of being held accountable, I’d venture to say, most nurses would be so devastated and remorseful that they’d hold themselves accountable. Am I terrified of prison time when I’m only trying to help? YES! Wouldn’t you be? What other profession risks criminal charges? She isn’t dangerous, she isn’t a criminal. Prison time is ludicrous. There are other ways nurses are held accountable for their mistakes.
@@totaldramapreppy this was in her timeline. Maybe her prison experience will help her grow as a person. As it did mine. Why do you act like prison is like a death sentence which is like what she gave her patient?
Nurses neglect their patients all the time
The nurse was empowered to override so she took it at her discretion. It is a malpractice, a judgment error to override. It is not homicide that is defined as deliberate killing.
so they do have computer controlled meds yeah? I would think they would..
@@spignetti , yes, medicine is behind giant secured glass cabinets, every pill bottle/packet automatically counted when removed or added with ID codes.
They’re saying she made 17 other similar mistakes…
There is involuntary homicide and criminal negligence.
It can be manslaughter.
She made 17 mistakes? That's beyond carelessness.
The nurse was to blame she has a responsibility to the patient and this mistake cost someone their life.
She a had a duty of care. She was negligent. Basic checks not done.
At 17 of them
The error of one is the error of all. An error of this degree clearly demonstrates there is a systemic error, therefore she shouldn’t be the scapegoat. It would be different if done purposely, which is not the case here.
Exactly. Why was such a harmful drug anywhere near a sedative medication?
Wrong. Nobody this sloppy or cavalier with people's lives should be in the profession
Some people are just stupid & careless. That's not every nurse's fault.
BOTH the nurse AND the faculties NEED to be held responsible.... as a nurse you SHOULD be CONSTANTLY verifying ANY meds you're giving to ANY patient even if it takes you 5 times to verify AND the IF the facility was allowing them to do the overrides all willy nilly THAT'S A BIG issue also.... the other question though is, was it the faculty that was allowing the nurses to do the overrides or the actual facility owners and also this is showing where monitoring your employees is VERY VERY LACKING and I can not fathom how lacking they were in a place that is GIVING patients medication when this is the PRIME example as to why certain fields NEED stricter supervision
@@SeanHenrichs exactly. Her face says it all
Making a mistake that kills a person is punishable. I hope people remember this.
Kind of like the way bobo the potato biden ordered the “righteous drone strike” that murdered 7 children and an aide worker? So no, obviously a mistake that kills a person is just fine I guess.
@@deplorablefederalist7908 I am not defending Biden, but there is a difference between a war zone and a hospital. We all expect to be safe in a hospital. Besides double-checking the drugs, the nurse must explain to the patient what the drug is for and possible adverse reactions.
Good. Maybe nurses will start paying attention to what they're doing.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
For those defending that nurse and the list of mistakes she made, if you were the patient would you be defending her?
If they were the patient, they would be dead.
If I were the patient, it's not only the nurses fault but also the healthcare institutions fault (including those in management positions) because of lapses in their safety procedures. If Vanderbilt hospital did not allow medication "override" in their safety system procedure, then nothing like this would have happened. Nurses always get the blame for working in a healthcare institution that does not provide the ideal safe work environement and working conditions, and yet when something fails, the nurse gets the blame while the healthcare facility continues to operate , and all those in hospital management positions continue to work.
You clearly don't work in Healthcare
Absolutely. These comments…are unnerving. Y’all do realize nurses will leave healthcare. And we’re already so short. We can’t demand staff that doesn’t exist. No one should go to prison for a mistake. This is a license/malpractice issue. There should be consequences but not prison. I’m really unnerved by the comments from people we pour our hearts and souls into trying to keep safe. She isn’t a danger to society. This is not a criminal issue.
@@totaldramapreppy if you're a nurse and you make mistakes that lead to a patients death that isn't a criminal issue?? Well just like you're biased to take the side of the nurse I'm on the side of the patient that didnt ask for death!
If she is guilty, the whole hospital, doctors, administration, and shareholders are guilty.
This is disgusting. It was an accident. Meanwhile there's people actually out here killing people. It's enough she lost her job and license. Why put this charge.
Thank you!
Im not going to be a nurse
I am a nurse and I don't blame you. The Nursing Life is very stressful.
This just proves how easy it is to end up in prison. It can happen to anyone.
After I had survived nursing over 20 years on 9/11 I got a job at one of these profit-based corporate nursing homes in Denver. I was really excited to get this job because I was going to be a staff development coordinator teaching young nurses and CNAs. On 9/11 as that second building was coming down I went into this place to start my new job. I punched in sat down in this great big obese male Dons office. Within just a few seconds he got a phone call and he sat and casually listened and then he hung up the phone.. he says to me casually like this is an everyday thing "I'm going to show you how to report a nurse to the board." So as I sat here this story unfolds this young new graduate nurse also got her good nature and desire to help people taken advantage of and he convinced her because of this forever so-called nurse shortage to stay over from the evening shift and do a 16-hour shift when she was just a graduate nurse! So around the time the first building got hit she was passing out medications absolutely exhausted you can hardly stand after you've done that. She gave the wrong patient methadone and killed him. She came into the office with us hysterical and crying because that's every nurse's worst nightmare. She tried to defend herself and say "I was trying to help because it was so short stuff here and you asked me to." He casually says well I'm sorry and she left crying knowing her life and career probably over once the lawyers jump on this. Then this disgusting piece of work called a nurse and director of nurses has the audacity to say to me "I'm going to need you to go out there and take her place"☠️ almost instantly I knew better than that I just stood up and said you know what I've got to go I went and punched out. Then I punched out of nursing when you see a nurse do that to another nurse so casually matter of factly like he expected it it's something he does frequently. Another thing this doesn't just happen at this nursing home. It happens everywhere. I've always heard about this horror story but never experienced it.
I can't tell you how many jobs I've lost in nursing or been run off of because I follow the law and I refuse to take assignments three times more patients than I can handle, 16 hour shifts passing out medications, refuse to float to ICU when I'm working in pediatrics or rehab or somewhere. Nurses are just legal scapegoats for the entire hospital or healthcare facility. Another time I was in a big Baptist hospital on a postpartum unit handing out meds when jayco was there to inspect the hospital. Routinely I was handing out this little white pill that came in a blister pack I can't remember the name of it but we gave it to mothers that would want to bottle feed to dry up their milk. I had been given in this out all over the unit without really looking at that white pill but then I looked at it real close and it wasn't the usual pill in that package. I went and looked this pill up in the PDR and guess what it was- sorbitrate a cardiac medication! Of course I immediately took the evidence and the PDR into my nurse supervisor well she was trying to make good impressions and she was angry that I discovered this medication error! Especially during the inspection! The pharmacy tech had packaged the wrong medication in those blister packs. Like I said do not do nursing to yourself unless you love abuse of every kind.
The acronym is not spelled "jaycho"
She made a huge mistake and she needs to answer for it. If a physician killed a patient due to a mistake, he would also be held responsible. These nurses think that they have some special privilege because they ARE nurses, that they are invincible or untouchable because of the work they do. If being a nurse is too stressful, then find a new profession. It certainly doesn’t held that many of these “RN’s” only have associates degrees and not the traditional BSN’s, it’s putting patients at risk.
Nurses are overworked bc most hospitals are understaffed. There is no room for error really. I considered nursing but passed it up for that reason.
I've worked in Pharmacy for 18yrs and it's constant go go go.
God forbid we make a mistake also.
Patients and management act as if it's a McDonald's drive thru .
I raised 2 nurses and worry all the time.
@@htorrez1 People act as if they're literally trusting these people with their lives and don't want a million protocols broken and them to be killed. I get it must be a super hard and demanding job but these are peoples lives on the line.
That's not a precedent, it's the law.
I went to a ER sick as a dog. I told them I have CHF and a few other conditions.... and they still prescribed me Erythromycin 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Thank God my mother works in the medical field too and caught it.
That med could of killed me because of my CHF if I would've taken it. I had to wait the weekend sick and go to my primary care doctor 😕
I'm pretty sure that was right after they said for heart condition patients not to take it because it had killed others
Nurses do not prescribe medications . Dr. prescribe meds.
@DariA Greer I used the word "they" not nurse 🧐
I don't understand what your talking about 🤷🏾♂️
She deserved it. This should make people triple check their work. It should be case by case. Sometimes machines fail.
Dont become a dr, nurse, cop, lawyer, etc if you dont want to be held to a higher standard than everyone else, simple. When you have ppls lives in your hands, you MUST be diligent! 🤷🏿♀️
Doctors and cops get away with more than usual.
I think her license must be revoked. But criminalizing an honest mistake is scary. Everyone makes mistake we are only human.
She made too many mistakes. She should know as a nurse to check everything to make sure she is giving the right medication and for that she is responsible and should be accountable. She should've known better.
Are you a nurse?
@@exiledhebrew1994 yes! In nursing school, there are 6 rights and 2 of those 6 are right of medicine, right of patient ..and so on. She needs to be accountable, loose her license, and be in jail. I could understand if noone died but someone died bc of her mistakes. She broke so many mistakes it's unfathomable. She should've known better. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me", " fool me 17x, the girl is guilty".
Our country needs to stop lowering standards.
This was obviously negligent homicide. Just read the 17 things this woman did wrong. (1:07)
Gross neglect indeed.
Humans make mistakes....
This looks like the hospital just threw her under the bus.
At first I thought, man it must be really scary to be a nurse if you can be charged criminally when you make an honest mistake... then I watched the video. I don't understand how this qualifies as neglect, at a certain point it seems pretty intentional. How does one "accidentally" override the system in order to administer the wrong medication?
idk i dont feel sympathy for someone that accidently kills someone because they couldnt do their job properly. I had a cousin who was a pharmacy tech, she made one mistake giving out the wrong meds to the wrong patients... immediate termination. No hesitation, she could have killed someone with that "honest mistake".
@@impendingeuphoria8802 Everyone makes mistakes. In the US, I see how they overstress and overwork our nurses. At some point a human body starts to break down. The mind starts to break down. Patients die every day because of our diseased work culture.
This is what happens when you're more worried about your tic toc account than you are about doing your job
This is absolutely a tragedy that the patient lost her life....the nurse reported her error and took responsibility....however, after this verdict. I fear future mistakes/ close calls will no longer be reported by the nursing staff due to fear of retaliation or criminal conviction... Which is a very scary thought...
Stop. We are talking about patient losing life and think about that! What if the patient is your son, husband, mother and other relatives!
Yes, its scary…because the truth is, we are all humans, we make mistakes…
Being a nurse sucks
Vecuronium is only on emergency crash trolleys and operating theatres.in Australia.
How could you give it on a ward ?
Five rights ?????? Check check check check and check again.
But as an ex nurse I know errors happen. Panadol vs Panadeine for example .But that drug ? Hmmm.
Terribly sad for the nurse patient and family. 😕
She should be in jailed. She killed a patient!
I've seen nurses where I worked in different places accidentally give the wrong meds but they did realize it and correct it before a life was lost but it happens
My mom was given wrong medication too. The nurse let my mom swallow the lozenge instead of letting her sip. when i point it out she reason out its ok. It can be swallowed too. Then what are lozenge are for if you will swallow it. Also it will not be effective. It was just lozenge, what if it was a dangerous drug? Tell me Its ok?
@@micabell3677 it's okay it can be taken both ways
How about citing some of the criminally negligent doctors.
This will certainly be a case study for all nursing schools
No errors allowed
I remember once being at a doctor's appointment and the nurse told me she had to pee so bad, but couldn't take a break because she needed to catch up on what she was doing.
Yes that's healthcare in America
I just walk away and pee....see ya in three....
E=MC2 not a good excuse.
Hey l have been there. So overwhelmed, especially when the pandemic was at its highest. Can’t take a bathroom break , forget about eating. It’s rough. No support from administration, They are walking around with their suits, and high heels 👠 to help the nurse at the bedside. And quick to write you up for stupid BS. And they wonder why NURSES are leaving their profession. Almost forgot you now have to take the trash/ laundry out. It’s a joke
Yea that’s the kind of nurse who is on social media, gossiping, and complaining while on her breaks and lunches, instead of using the restroom and prioritizing her day 🍎
Making a mistake should not lead to someone's death.