HealthExec May 27, 2022
The recent criminally negligent homicide conviction of former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught for administering the wrong medication to a patient and causing their death may have a deeply negative impact on healthcare and patient safety far beyond the death of a single patient.
Since her conviction, medical societies said this verdict will greatly set back safety reporting at many hospitals because clinicians will be much more unwilling to admit mistakes or report medical errors. There are also concerns among clinicians that cases like this show clinicians do not have support when they inevitably make a mistake. This may lead to increasing the sense of burnout in clinicians that is helping fuel the great resignation in healthcare.
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