NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF — The Tennessee Board of Nursing voted to revoke a Former Vanderbilt University nurse after she admitted to using the wrong medication which ultimately killed the patient.

The Tennessee Board of Nursing stripped a former nurse at Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center of her license during a July 23 disciplinary hearing linked to her administering a ...

In 2018 (another 46,000 dead), the medical board finally placed Dr. Ballard’s license on probation. They asked him to pay a fine, attend classes, and stick to the state’s pain-prescribing ...

If Vaught's story had followed the path of most medical errors, it would have been over hours later, when the Tennessee Board of Nursing revoked her license and almost certainly ended her nursing ...

Nurse’s Felony Conviction Spurs First State Law Decriminalizing Medical Errors Ann W. Latner, JD | June 4, 2024 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday.

To be sure, as NPR reported, “Medical errors are generally handled by professional licensing boards or civil courts, and criminal prosecutions like Vaught’s case are exceedingly rare.” Correct.

Medication errors are not rare. A 2022 report estimates that in the United States, seven to 9,000 people a year die from mistakes, and hundreds of thousands more suffer adverse reactions.

RaDonda Vaught was accused of giving Charlene Murphey, a 75-year-old patient, a fatal dose of the wrong medication in December 2017.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also ...