1. Watch the videos listed below, and read the timeline of events
• Medication Error Kills a Vanderbilt Patient video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIeYsJywO00)
• Ex-Vanderbilt Nurse Charged with Reckless Homicide
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzV6coXvYsE)
• Timeline: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2020/03/03/vanderbilt-nurse-
radonda-vaught-arrested-reckless-homicide-vecuronium-error/4826562002/
1. Identify at least 5 errors RaDonda made when administrating medication.
2. Identify anyone else who could be at fault in this case and state why.
3. What was RaDonda’s responsibility to monitor the patient after giving the medication?
4. Do you think RaDonda took the correct action once the medication error was identified? explain
your answer.
5. Do you think the hospital took the correct action after the medication error was identified?
explain your answer.
6. Do you think a nurse should be criminally liable for a medication error? Explain your answer.
7. How does this change your feelings on passing medications to patients?
8. Do you think medication errors are 100% preventable? Why?
9. What will you do in your practice as a nurse to help prevent medication errors?