Radonda Vaught Sentencing Verdict | Nurse Criminally Charged | What this means for Healthcare

Radonda Vaught, a nurse, was criminally charged with criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult. Today was her sentencing hearing where she was given a sentence of 3 years of probation with the possibility of having the sentence altered. She will not serve jail time for her medication error at Vanderbilt university medical center.

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[jillgilson]

Overjoyed that she is not doing jailtime. This would have set a horrible precedence. Patient care would suffer even more. Thanks, Liz.

[NursesToRiches]

The reason why she isn't serving time in prison (thank goodness) is because Tennessee does not have minimum sentencing requirements. I'm so happy this turned out the way it did but I think the hospital administrators need to be held accountable for allowing all the systemic issues to continue that allowed this to happen in the first place.

[carolj]

On the one hand, I'm so glad she will not do jail time. However, she's going to have to carry the burden of knowing her actions directly killed someone and that is not fair that she alone should carry that burden. I don't know what her patient load/acuity was on that day, probably like most of us have experienced in our careers though, too many people to be responsible for, too little team effort, and not even enough time to go to the bathroom (nurses bladder, anyone?) The facility MUST be made accountable as well. They must be governed by regulations that force them to stop admitting patients when they do not have enough staff (direct hands on nurses, NOT management nurses) to provide SAFE care.

[rnbham]

People really do not realize just how much gets covered. I’m so relieved she didn’t get any jail time. I think losing her license was the absolute correct disciplinary action for sure.

[ZZhorses]

We have been refusing a lot of assignments since this all happened and so far it has helped

[MsJcmJcm]

Well, the judge realized nurses will boycott the hospital, or even not working in Tennessee State, not report and no one wins. The patients will ultimately suffer.

[thetarotc]

im a new nurse and i will absolutely go as slow as i need to. pt safety 1st and my license/freedom

[brendayarber]

Replay.
I'm so glad the judge did the right thing for Radonda.
This should have never gone to trial.
May Radonda be able to move forward and have a have a peaceful happy life.

[hanskung]

Nurses won't report errors and people won't become nurses

[darleneyager]

The live feed was heart wrenching/nervewracking. I broke down watching RaDonda start shaking during that extra hour the judge was out. I stress ate a Hershey bar🍫.
My relief is immense & this is from an RN w/45 years experience. STAY STRONG/STAND TOGETHER!!!! (This “Elvis” has left the building)(Practice wise). Thank you Liz. I’m one of your regular followers.

[ilovelabs]

Thank you for your great coverage on this case. It’s been so emotional and difficult to watch. I’m not even a nurse, tho I worked critical care for many, many years as a heart monitor tech, and it was my family, even still today. I feel that nurses will be scared (I would be) now that we see how an organization can abandon you, and lose 4-5 yrs of your life to court proceedings, as well as life long consequences that serve as their own punishment alone. Who wants to go through something this awful due to an unintentional error? It’ll leave it’s mark for sure. I still believe that even though she didn’t go to prison, isn’t the damage already done? I’d be scared to go to ICU today if I wasn’t retired.

[janbeaton]

As the mother of a nurse I was relieved.

[annfuller]

Paper trail if the hospital has one if not make one. I refused to take an additional patient because there was NO way I could safely take care of one more patient. I was having issues taking care of the load I had and was terrified I'd make an error. I knew more about the NPA than the supervisor did. I was sent home. I was a new nurse but had been a professional in the same system for many yaars.

[carlas]

Chain of events lead to a fatal outcome- nurses work in unsafe conditions all the time- we are pressured to do more and more- administrators don’t listen to any concerns

[jackson]

I hope this backfires and that DA has no future in politics.

[toribern]

That exactly right. We DO NOT have TIME to do things right. It all boils down to that exact sentence. And no one seems to want to fix it and it’s bc of money. 💯🤷🏻‍♀️ it’s sad but it is our reality as nurses.

[MzLanae]

Our hospital recently ended contracts for 10 travel nurses without warning! We later found out they got rid of the nurses who complained about assignments and work conditions. Now our pt numbers have increased and the nurses who stayed are stuck with more unsafe assignments with less staffing support. All to save 💰. You can speak up if you want... this is how they handle it!

[phil-amvlogsi]

Good for her. I was about to quit nursing.

[bethadab]

Hi thanks for info, happy with this outcome, for her, and so sorry for the family of that patient,

[twinsweare]

@J Michael RN I AGREE with you the Christann Gainey case. Nurse Liz, I agree with you also! Once anything happens to you then you don't want to work as a nurse ever again!!!!