Ex Nurse Sentenced To Probation In Patient Medication Death Court Tv People demonstrate outside the courthouse where the sentencing hearing for former nurse radonda vaught is being held friday, may 13, 2022, in nashville, tenn. vaught was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient in march after she accidentally administered the wrong medication. Nashville, tenn. (scripps news nashville) — a former vanderbilt university medical center nurse convicted of a crime for a mistake on the job is about to be sentenced — and much of the country will be watching. many in the medical community — especially nurses — were outraged over the radonda vaught case. prosecutors charged vaught and.
Ex Nurse Sentenced To Probation In Patient Medication Death Court Tv By travis loller associated press. nashville, tenn. (ap) — the fate of a former tennessee nurse whose patient died after she was accidentally injected with a paralyzing drug was put in the hands of the jury on thursday evening. radonda vaught, 37, is charged with reckless homicide for administering vecuronium to 75 year old charlene murphey. The state’s expert witness argued at trial that vaught violated the standard of care expected of nurses. in addition to grabbing the wrong medicine, she failed to read the name of the drug, did. Vaught, 38, a former nurse at vanderbilt university medical center in nashville, faced up to eight years in prison. in march she was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of. Ex nurse sentenced to probation in patient medication death administered the wrong medication. nashville criminal court judge jennifer smith said vaught would receive judicial diversion, a way.
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