The recent case of RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse who was found guilty of negligent homicide after accidentally administering the wrong medication to a patient who subsequently died, has nurses and nursing students rethinking if this profession is worth their own personal risk.
To be sure, working in health care comes with great responsibility. Any mistake can impact the lives that health care workers entered the profession to protect. However, there are an estimated 250,000 medical errors every year — so is Vaught a dangerous exception or simply the face of fallible humanity?
