Opinion | Saving Patients' Lives Is a Matter of Seeing the Big Picture
Stop pinning the blame on individuals when the whole system is at fault.
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Stop pinning the blame on individuals when the whole system is at fault.
RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, said at her sentencing, “‘I’m sorry’ doesn’t seem like enough.”
Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial on charges of reckless homicide. Her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.
The trial will be followed by nurses nationwide, many of whom worry a conviction may set a precedent.
A nurse is currently on trial in Tennessee, accused of negligence for allegedly giving an elderly patient the wrong medication in 2017, causing her death. KHN reported that…