NASHVILLE (WSMV) - A former Vanderbilt nurse who's on trial for administering a deadly dose of the wrong drug to a patient has officially lost her nurse's license.
Back in December 2017, 75-year-old Charlene Murphy died after Radonda Vaught gave her a fatal dose of Vecuronium Bromide, a drug that causes paralysis, instead of Versed, which treats anxiety.
I figure this happens more than we know and is covered up and dealt with internally. Very sad situation here. It does not seem the Nurse did this intentionally but it seems if she followed protocol it would not have happened. Checks and balances are in place to prevent stuff like this from happening. "Mom would have forgiven her." What a tremendous family.
I agree that it must happen more often than they let on. She must have done something to tick off the powers that be and this was just the pretext they used to get rid of her. It happens all the time at work. When certain people violate the rules they are coached about what went wrong and how to do it better in the future (total slap on the wrist). Others are fired for similar offenses (usually annoying people that management doesn't like).
I can't complain too loudly about unequal administration of justice, I've benefited from it a time or two.
Is this a result of affirmative action or is it a result of racial quotas? Either way it still results in death of the patient. Can this person even read English?
She looks American too me. What ever that looks like. Just my impression. Revoke nursing licenses. It did not say what type ie. RN, LPN etc. There was a time only an RN could give shots but I think those days are gone. So, someone with less training and maybe less intellectual abilities are now able to give shots. Plus the pressure of getting the work done in a shift while the unit is understaffed. Big business run our hospitals today and they are ruthless to their employees. What is the primary objective of a private business? To generate revenue, period. The patient is just a means to make a dollar. I've worked in them. The won't hire full time so they don't have to pay benefits but by damn you better be willing to pull sixty and more hour weeks with no overtime. I agree, the nurse screwed up but I'd like to know more about the story before I pass to harsh a judgement.
If you can read, your chances of doing causing a monumental fuckup like this is remote. My nurse wife remembered this case VERY well. The nurse was working in an area she wasn’t used to and had to *override* the RX dispensing system to even remove the drug.
The bottle has a red top on it that says “paralytic”. Vec has to be reconstituted - it’s a powder that you add liquid to, Versed IS a liquid - just draw it up and push it. Apparently this was lost on her. She fucked up six ways from Sunday. From giving the wrong drug to not even having so much as a pulse-ox on the patient. SOP when you push a “give ‘em a buzz” drug. It wasn’t until another nurse noticed that the patient wasn’t breathing that they even stopped the imaging to resuscitate. How fucking dumb can you be???
Anon is absolutely right. This particular drug screw up took work. It wasn’t like giving someone an “allopurinol” tablet instead of an “antenolol” tablet (bad enough; gout med instead of a beta-blocker used as a shitty BP med; happened to my dad). This vercuronium thing was an order of magnitude worse fuck up.
I figure this happens more than we know and is covered up and dealt with internally. Very sad situation here. It does not seem the Nurse did this intentionally but it seems if she followed protocol it would not have happened. Checks and balances are in place to prevent stuff like this from happening. "Mom would have forgiven her." What a tremendous family.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it must happen more often than they let on. She must have done something to tick off the powers that be and this was just the pretext they used to get rid of her. It happens all the time at work. When certain people violate the rules they are coached about what went wrong and how to do it better in the future (total slap on the wrist). Others are fired for similar offenses (usually annoying people that management doesn't like).
DeleteI can't complain too loudly about unequal administration of justice, I've benefited from it a time or two.
Is this a result of affirmative action or is it a result of racial quotas? Either way it still results in death of the patient. Can this person even read English?
ReplyDeleteShe looks American too me. What ever that looks like. Just my impression. Revoke nursing licenses. It did not say what type ie. RN, LPN etc. There was a time only an RN could give shots but I think those days are gone. So, someone with less training and maybe less intellectual abilities are now able to give shots. Plus the pressure of getting the work done in a shift while the unit is understaffed. Big business run our hospitals today and they are ruthless to their employees. What is the primary objective of a private business? To generate revenue, period. The patient is just a means to make a dollar. I've worked in them. The won't hire full time so they don't have to pay benefits but by damn you better be willing to pull sixty and more hour weeks with no overtime. I agree, the nurse screwed up but I'd like to know more about the story before I pass to harsh a judgement.
ReplyDelete& this is why I couldn't be a nurse. I would end up doing somehting like this.
ReplyDeleteIf you can read, your chances of doing causing a monumental fuckup like this is remote.
DeleteMy nurse wife remembered this case VERY well.
The nurse was working in an area she wasn’t used to and had to *override* the RX dispensing system to even remove the drug.
The bottle has a red top on it that says “paralytic”. Vec has to be reconstituted - it’s a powder that you add liquid to, Versed IS a liquid - just draw it up and push it. Apparently this was lost on her.
She fucked up six ways from Sunday. From giving the wrong drug to not even having so much as a pulse-ox on the patient. SOP when you push a “give ‘em a buzz” drug.
It wasn’t until another nurse noticed that the patient wasn’t breathing that they even stopped the imaging to resuscitate.
How fucking dumb can you be???
Anon is absolutely right. This particular drug screw up took work. It wasn’t like giving someone an “allopurinol” tablet instead of an “antenolol” tablet (bad enough; gout med instead of a beta-blocker used as a shitty BP med; happened to my dad). This vercuronium thing was an order of magnitude worse fuck up.
ReplyDeleteFucking fat fingers.
DeleteAtenolol. Only one N.
With that information I do not think stupidity. I think intentional?
ReplyDeleteLost her license huh? That'll teach her.
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