Nashville, Tennessee. A jury found a former nurse guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient. The attention of patient safety advocates and nurses around the country has been fixed by the case of her gross neglect of an impaired adult. The paralyzing drug vecuronium was injected into 75-year-old Charlene Murphey by RaDonda Vaught. Vaught freely admitted to making several errors with the medication that day, but her defense attorney argued the nurse was not acting outside of the norm and the problems at the hospital were partly to blame for the error. The jury found Vaught not guilty. Criminally neglent homicide was a lesser charge. As Vaught waited for the verdict on Friday morning, she was constantly approached by local nurses who had come to the courthouse to support her. Vaught was calm after the verdict was read, but several of the nurses who surrounded her in the courthouse hallway were in tears. After 4 1/2 years, Vaught said she was relieved to have a resolution and hopes the family is as well. She said that Ms. Murphey's family is at the forefront of her thoughts every day. Murphey was admitted to the neurological intensive care unit after suffering a brain bleed. The cause of the bleed was being investigated by doctors and they ordered a test to check for cancer. According to testimony, Murphey was prescribed Versed for her anxiety. Vaught accidentally grabbed vecuronium when she tried to find Versed in an automatic drug cabinet. Vaught violated the standard of care expected of nurses according to an expert witness. Donna Jones said that she failed to read the name of the drug, did not notice a red warning on the top of the medication, and did not stay with the patient to check for an adverse reaction. Leanna Craft, a nurse educator at the unit where Vaught worked, testified that it was common for nurses to use the system to get drugs. Delays in retrieving medications from the automatic drug dispensers were caused by the hospital updating their electronic records system. Vaught was not able to use a scanning device to check the medication against the patient's ID bracelet. In closing arguments, the assistant district attorney told the jury that RaDonda Vaught acted recklessly and that she caused the death of Charlene Murphey. RaDonda Vaught neglected her duty to care for Charlene Murphey. RaDonda Vaught couldn't pay attention to what she was doing and that's the reason that Charlene Murphey is dead. Vaught is worried that other providers will be hesitant to come forward to tell the truth because of the verdict. I think the take-away from this is to be honest. Patient safety expert Bruce Lambert said in an interview before the verdict that it was concerning that Vaught was being criminally prosecuted for a medical error. Vaught said before the sentencing that she didn't regret admitting her mistake. She felt that she was being scapegoated after she became the subject of a surprise inspection by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She said it was easy to say, "Just let her do it." Medics see something. The technicians see it. The verdict was not a precedent setting case that would lead to more criminalization of medical errors, prosecutors said. The case is not against the nursing community, according to the assistant district attorney. RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse, was charged with reckless homicide after making a medication error that may have killed a patient. RaDonda Vaught was the focus of the prosecution and state boards. That approach is bad for nurses and patients. Few know that Amazon has millions of Prime subscribers. RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse at the hospital, was indicted in the death of a patient and the jury deliberated a verdict. RaDonda Vaught, a former nurse, is on trial for the death of a patient. 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