Nurse convicted in patients death is now a national speaker on hospital safety
News Source : NPR
News Summary
- RaDonda Vaught was sentenced to probation and lost her nursing license after a fatal medication error.
- She started getting offers to speak to medical audiences after being on probation for about a year.
- Last year, she told her story more than 20 times, and she is paid $5,000 to $10,000 per event.
- She says she's painfully aware that it could appear she is profiting from a tragedy of her making."It wasn't something that I wanted to happen.
- It wasn't even something that was on my radar to think about," Vaught said.
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