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Podcast: Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners
Episode: JSP Blast - Healthcare May Have Just Changed
Description: In this special bonus JSP Blast Episode, we are focusing on the criminal conviction of RaDonda Vaught for criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult. She was convicted in Tennessee on March 25, 2022. This conviction is the result of a medication error in 2017, when she administered vecuronium, a paralyzing agent, instead of Versed, a sedative. This resulted in a sentinel event and the patient, Charlene Murphey, died as a result. Vanderbilt Medical Center failed to report this event to state and federal authorities and two neurologists ruled her death to be natural causes despite the medication error. Through an an...