I do hope this is some journalist screw up.
RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt nurse who faces criminal charges in the accidental death of a patient, was scapegoated by the prestigious hospital to cover up “systemic errors” and “protect its brand,” her attorney said Thursday in Vaught’s first-ever public defense.
Attorney Peter Strianse said Vaught was “devastated” by the “tragic mistake” she made by giving the patient the wrong drug in 2017. But he also argued the error was made possible by flawed procedures at Vanderbilt, which permitted nurses to routinely override medication safeguards.
Vanderbilt scapegoated RaDonda Vaught for ‘systemic errors,’ attorney says (tennessean.com)
So, your contention is that your client is not guilty because the hospital system allowed her, a trained professional in the medical arts, to purposely ignore basic safety procedures which ended up in giving a patient the wrong medication that led to his her death? Did you just admit your client is guilty as hell?
I need more coffee.
UPDATE: Just saw this one.
RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt nurse criminally indicted for accidentally killing a patient with a medication error in 2017, was stripped of her license by the Tennessee Board of Nursing on Friday at a contentious and at times tearful medical discipline hearing.
Ex-Vanderbilt nurse Radonda Vaught loses license for fatal error (tennessean.com)
here is another story on this, if you are blocked by the Tenesseean:
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/board-votes-to-revoke-former-vanderbil-nurses-license-for-deadly-error
Murphey died when she was given the paralytic drug Vecuronium Bromide rather than the sedative Versed.
Vaught got the medication from an Accudose machine. According to a TBI report, when she went to pull the medication Versed for the patient. It wasn’t pulling up in the machine; so she said she overrode the system and typed “VE” to search it and selected the first medication to pop up on the list, which was Vecuronium Bromide.
Versed or Vecuronium? What’s the difference? They both begin with VE.
I read in detail and this is the sort of crap that drives IT folks crazy and you won’t like my opinion at all. Yep there were procedures. But the system was “too slow” so there were also ways to bypass the procedures that would have provided the checkpoints. And the bypasses were embedded as “institutional knowledge” AKA “everybody does it”. This is why the hospital did not go after her in the first place, this is why the hospital settled with the family. Because this was a human failure but it was also systemic. She only got prosecuted AFTER this became public. When your system is rigged to bypass safety procedures accidents will occur it’s just going to take time. Sure her license should be stripped but the hospital gets a crapton of malpractice blame for letting that rig go in the first place. Like when my friend got killed when the scissor lift fell. Yes he was driving it but the entire crew had been trying and trying and trying to get that thing pulled from the convention floor because it was unsafe.