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Nashville nurse convicted in patient’s death is now a national speaker on hospital safety

By Blake Farmer

May 24, 2026

People demonstrate outside the courthouse where the sentencing hearing for former nurse RaDonda Vaught was held on May 13, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn.

RaDonda Vaught was convicted of negligent homicide after dispensing the wrong drug to a patient. She now gives speeches about hospital safety in an era of automation and artificial intelligence.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: medical errors, nursing, RaDonda Vaught

Nashville educators: Tennessee needs to find new incentives and support students to reverse its nursing shortage

By Catherine Sweeney

February 2, 2024

Tennessee is facing a health worker shortage. And now, professors and teachers from Nashville schools are looking to some novel solutions.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Healthcare, nursing

A Nashville-based hospital chain experiments with virtual nursing to curb burnout and cover staffing gaps

By Blake Farmer

January 12, 2023

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Nursing has seemed like one career that is unable to go remote — not even as virtual work has changed industries in ways we could not have envisioned. But hospitals are now experimenting with a virtual nursing option to keep experienced RNs and cover thin staffing.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: nurses, nursing, virtual nursing

As a former Vanderbilt nurse awaits sentencing for a medical error, her conviction sparks widespread worry

By Blake Farmer

April 14, 2022

RaDonda Vaught
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The name RaDonda Vaught is now well-known by nurses nationwide. Her negligent homicide conviction for a medication error is weighing heavy on a weary profession.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Glenn Funk, nurses, nursing, RaDonda Vaught, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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