RaDonda Vaught has been in limbo for more than four years. A few more hours will not bother her. The former nurse spoke with the Tennessean outside a Nashville criminal courtroom on Friday morning while behind closed doors a jury deliberated her fate. She was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult. She will be sentenced on May 13. I have no regrets about telling the truth even if the jury finds me guilty and Judge Smith decides that prison time is the appropriate sentence. She will live with the weight of what happened in December of last year for the rest of her life. It is a heavy burden. Vaught was indicted on two charges of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse in the death of Murphey at the hospital. RaDonda Vaught was found guilty of two charges in the death of a patient. The RaDonda Vaught trial has limited patient safety according to nurses. The 75-year-old man was being treated in the intensive care unit for a brain bleed. She died from a paralytic called vecuronium bromide, which stopped her breathing after she received the wrong medication. Vaught took responsibility for the mistake from the beginning. She is most focused on Murphey and her family this week. We don't forget about Miss Murphey and her family. Not at all. Not at all. She said that it was about creating a safer environment so that things like this wouldn&t happen again. Vaught was not recommended to lose her license or be suspended after the death of Murphey. An anonymous tip, a surprise inspection and state and federal investigations led to threatened sanctions for VUMC and a criminal indictment for Vaught. RaDonda Vaught's trial showed that there were problems with medication access. Peter Strianse, Vaught's attorney, said it was still unclear why she became a cause celebre. I think people deserve some answers to those questions, but they didn't get them in the courtroom, Vaught said. The case has drawn attention to health care workers. It sits on a knife edge of precedent on handling medical errors like this one in criminal court, not civil courts or before licensing boards where they are more commonly heard. Everyone agrees that there was no intent to harm Murphey. The nursing community is angry and frustrated. Where is the accountability? Where? All this says is that you as a nurse are disposable. Medical errors are not new to the industry. A witness in the trial said they happen in hospitals every day. The mistakes may not contribute to the death of a patient, but they are still part of the high-stakes, life-or-death work done by clinicians daily. I am a former hospital administrator and prosecuting RaDonda Vaught may make things worse. Vaught and her colleagues worry that the threat of criminal charges for mistakes will undermine decades of work to create open and honest communication. There were a lot of missed opportunities and they failed to acknowledge them until they were at risk of losing a lot of money. Not for me. For them. Her defense focused on whether systemic issues at the school contributed to how she missed safeguards. She feels the hospital system should have acted before the December day to fix the problems, but also waited a long time after the event to implement the changes recommended by the federal body reviewing the case. She said that someone still has to pay the price. Someone has to pay a price for a complaint to end up in the hands of a criminal investigating body. Vaught, surrounded by friends and supporters all week, still tried to put herself in the shoes of the family as they sat in the courtroom. She spoke quietly through her tears when she thought of how nice they have been to her. Vaught crossed paths with a grandson of a store. It took a few minutes before they realized their tragic connection. It has been very sobering. When the grandson of the patient that you probably killed is standing in the middle of his work, and you pat him on the shoulder, you know you know humility. She remembered that you take care of yourself. The witnesses for the state and the defense said that Vaught was a caring, compassionate nurse who was trusted with leadership roles even though she was still new to the field. She was stripped of her nursing license in July and it is not clear if she will ever be able to return to her previous job. She used to like getting to know her patients' families. You don't do this job and don't worry. You take those patients home with you when you leave the hospital. She said that she didn't have that opportunity with Miss Murphey or her family, but now they have been incredibly kind. She had harsh words for the district attorneys office. She was angry that the assistant district attorney said that this wasn't an indictment of nursing as a whole. They berated around the courtroom yesterday in a show of lies and deceit. The career field that they worked in is different from the career field that I worked in. She hoped that people in the public saw that. Reach reporter Mariah Timms at mtimms@tennessean.com. RaDonda Vaught, who was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, spoke out. According to the organization's website,tuals, symbols, and degrees are designed to improve the character of mankind. An investigation is underway in the death of a woman who was found trapped under a vehicle. You can battle your way through a visually-stunning mythicalRPG realm with hundreds ofchampions from 14factions. A former Sarah Lawrence College student on Thursday revealed twisted new details about alleged torture at the hands of her ex-roommate's father. Over the course of seven or eight hours, he binding me to a chair, a desk chair and a suffocat. 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