Ex-nurse RaDonda Vaught sentenced to probation after injecting patient with wrong drug
A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient was sentenced to three years of probation Friday
As hundreds of health care workers rallied outside the courthouse, warning that criminalizing such mistakes will lead to more deaths in hospitals
A state judge imposed the sentence on RaDonda Vaught after she apologized to relatives of the victim, Charlene Murphey
Vaught apologized to the family in court, saying words will never fully express her “remorse and sorrow.”
The crowd of nurses outside protesting cheered, cried and hugged after hearing the sentence.
After Vaught was found guilty in March, health care workers began posting to social media that there were leaving bedside nursing for administrative positions