Op-Ed: Ex-Nurse Convicted in Patient’s Death-Could This Set a Worrisome Precedent for All Nurses?
Why would anybody in their right mind want to become a nurse now?
That was the question my wife asked me after hearing the verdict in this case.
Why would I want to continue being a nurse from this point forward? That was what I said back to her.
We were talking about this: “A jury on Friday convicted former Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult after a medication error contributed to the death of a patient in 2017”, reported The Tennessean.
My wife and I are both nurses. We both hold registered nursing (RN) licenses and have a combined 50 years of practice and experience between us. We’ve never heard of this happening in our half-century of caregiving before.
Not once, ever.
The conscious world already knows that nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system. We are responsible for providing care to patients and often work long hours under challenging conditions. This was all made apparent as COVID ravaged our healthcare systems and the spirit of nurses across the US.
