A Tennessee jury found a former nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult after she accidentally injected a patient with the wrong drug.
Vaught faces three to six years in prison for the abuse charge and one to two years for negligent homicide,Vaught has never denied the mistake, andreports she has taken responsibility for it. Speaking to the newspaper before hearing her guilty verdict Vaught said, “Knowing what I know now — even if the jury finds me guilty, even if Judge Smith decides that prison time is the appropriate sentencing for this and it’s the maximum amount of time — I have zero regrets about telling the truth.
Tennessee’s nursing licensing board investigated Vaught immediately after the error was made, and did not recommend she lose her license or be suspended,reported. It was only a year after Murphey’s death that an anonymous tip and surprise inspection led to the criminal indictment, the newspaper reported.
Prosecutors argued Vaught consciously disregarded warnings when she took the wrong drug out to dispense, and pointed out that she had to search for the drug by name to dispense it,
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