For the full text, visit The Tennessean online. xXksF_U[A[#!`+[[@/%'.sO~)yE6G>4I \oD;"+z|S?]r~^sMkNQ:Qi|w zrK-q/S1{U8+m_PHO0bx&l$E.Btn'8,PcGb*`-##w:""#3~HR: 9,J@;FH #mD="N=* The CMS is threatening to strip Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, of its ability to care for Medicare patients because a patient died after receiving a large dose of the wrong medication. While 30 of the errors took place during medication preparation and 67 occurred during prescribing, 79 errors occurred during medication administration, with the most common involving "accidental administration of the wrong drug." The material on this site is for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment provided by a qualified health care provider. "Yes, we have lost some mojo, the pandemic being one reason," he said. The decision to criminally prosecute a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who allegedly killed an elderly patient with a medication error is directly related to the nurse overridingsafeguards at one of the hospitals medicine dispensing cabinets. Cole feels the issue is critically important, but acknowledges that efforts toward improving patient safety and preventing errors within healthcare systems have died down or lost momentum in recent years, in part because of COVID. But before discharge, her doctors ordered a special scan in the radiology department that afternoon where she would be placed in an enclosed tube. Please identify at least 5 errors RaDonda made when administrating medication. A little more than a week after Murpheys death, Vaught received a termination letter, while the hospital attempted to conceal the event from public scrutiny. In the scathing summary of deficiencies, the agency noted: A hospital must protect and promote each patients rights. Opens in a new tab or window, Share on Twitter. Please Watch short YouTube video first, length: 2:32, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report is summarized here and the, events are described via interviews with the involved parties. ", "Transparent, just, and timely reporting mechanisms of medical errors without the fear of criminalization preserve safe patient care environments. If convicted, Vaught faces up to 12 years in prison -- though Murphey's family said she would forgive the nurse if she were alive today, according to the Tennessean. On February 1, Radonda Leanne Vaught, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, was indicted and arrested for impaired adult abuse and reckless homicide. John Howser, chief communications officer at VUMC, claimed, We disclosed the error to the patients family as soon as we confirmed that an error had occurred. However, according to Gary Murphey, Charlenes son, The family had never been informed by the hospital that the medication Vecuronium caused [my] mothers death.. Also, healthcare practitioners, including nurses, will not want to speak up when they make an error, which will cripple learning, prevent the recognition of the need for system redesign and set the healthcare culture back to when hiding mistakes and punitive responses to errors were the norm., International Committee of the Fourth International. % "That's the kind of culture that we're trying to improve. But the trial is a vicious effort at scapegoating her to put all the responsibility for the tragedy on her shoulders and save the reputation of Vanderbilt, one of the major medical facilities in the South. overridingsafeguards at one of the hospitals medicine dispensing cabinets, ex-nurse Radonda Vaught, 35, of Bethpage, had been indicted, grabbed the wrong medication from one of the hospitals electronic prescribing cabinets, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Opens in a new tab or window, Share on LinkedIn. ", Additionally, said Cole, hospitals could institute a policy requiring a "period of monitoring by a qualified practitioner" so that patients aren't just given a medication like the sedative midazolam (Versed) -- which Murphey was supposed to get to calm her anxiety ahead of a PET scan -- "and then sent to a corner somewhere.". Vanderbilt quickly provided CMS with a corrective action plan so the hospitals reimbursements were no longer in jeopardy. endstream endobj 288 0 obj <>stream The authors suggested that using prefilled medication syringes would avoid accidental ampule swap, bar-coding at the point of administration would prevent syringe swaps and confirm proper doses, and two-person checking of medication infusions would provide greater assurance of accuracy. Termination from Medicare would take place Dec. 9 if Vanderbilt doesn't implement specific efforts to ensure patients receive the right medication at the right doses. "The failure of the hospital to mitigate risks associated with medication errors and ensure all patients received care in a safe setting placed them in immediate jeopardy and risk of serious injuries or death," the CMS said in the report. /UR5j /FitWindow true Vecuroniumis also part of the deadly cocktail used to execute inmates on death row. She is due in court on Feb. 20. CMS stated that Vanderbilt hospital policy was inadequate because it failed to detail any procedure or guidance regarding the manner and frequency of monitoring during and after medications were administered. Charlene was discovered by a transporter. She was found with no pulse and unresponsive in the PET scan patient waiting room. The TBI announcement also identified the deceased patient, Charlene Murphey, for the first time. Radonda Leanne Vaught, 35, was indicted on Friday, according to a Monday announcement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Medication errors are the most common type of medical error. Beyond the personal aspects of these events, the prosecution of the nurse is sending waves of resentment among nurses who fear the trial will set a precedent. "That includes providing background information about the event itself, along with physical evidence, requested health records information and other documents.. Prosecutors are expected to focus on how Vaught overrode several warnings from an electronic medicine cabinet. After Vaught gave Murphey the Vecuronium Bromide, the radioactive tracer used for PET scans was also administered. The system asked for a reason for the override, but she couldnt recall what reason she selected., Due to problems with communication between electronic health records, medication dispensing cabinets, and the hospital pharmacy that were causing delays in administering medications, the hospital was using workarounds that overrode the safeguards built into the medicine cabinets so staff could access drugs quickly when needed. against Nurse Vaught. It did not occur during an operating room procedure, Cole noted. At this point, the report states, the medication error was discovered. centers for medicare & medicaid services omb no. He became extremely symptomatic at work and was brought to your emergency department. However, All rights reserved. Be alert for major adverse effects, such asrespiratory distressNURSING, ALERTThe nurse is ultimately accountable for the drug administered" (CMS, 2018, p.3), CMS defined neglect as the failure to provide goods and services necessary to avoid physical, At Vanderbilt policy is as follows Medication orders are reviewed by a pharmacist prior to, removal from floor stock or an automated dispensing cabinet unlessA delay would harm the. endstream endobj 287 0 obj <>stream The Nursing and The Law program from Nash Healthcare Consulting (NHC) covers hot topics involving nursing challenges including problematic nursing chapter standards with CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and the Joint Commission (TJC). Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com. As a result, there was no autopsy and the death certificate did not indicate the death was accidental. Update: Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught convicted of criminal negligent homicide for medication error. At the time, Vaught was also orienting a new employee and was fielding questions about a swallow evaluation in the emergency department. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conducted an inspection at Vanderbilt and issued a Statement of Deficiencies concerning the patient death. Medpage Today is among the federally registered trademarks of MedPage Today, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. In some states, it is part of the three-drug cocktail used to carry out executions by lethal injection. /PageMode /UseNone It's vecuronium.". Vaught was assigned to pick up the medication from the dispensing cabinet and administer it in the radiology department to Murphey before her PET scan. This is every nurses nightmare. The deadly mistake at Vanderbilt occurred in December2017 but was not publicly revealed until a federal investigation report from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services was made public in November 2018. Murphey was then moved to a waiting area to wait an hour before the scan for the tracer to permeate the body. u'|6e Instead, Murphey was left alone as Vaught was called away to the emergency room. John Howser, a VUMCspokesman, has said previously that the hospitalacted swiftly after the death, including taking "personnel actions" and notifying the patient's family. Vaught allegedly typed in "VE" for Versed, but when nothing came up, she hit an "override" that brought up more medications, according to court documents. On social media, a nurse working in Florida wrote, If this poor woman gets prison time with rapists and murderers for administering a wrong medication, Ill change careers. 5200 Butler Pike VANDERBILT DEATH:Victim would forgive nurse who mixed up meds, son says. Being claustrophobic, she was prescribed a Versed sedative to calm her nerves. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Instagram. This is standard practice at many hospitals, but not at VUMC. Identify, Review the zDogg videos(Links to an external site.) ~sV The nurse then typed the first two letters in the drugs name VE into the cabinet computer and selected the first medicine suggested by the machine, not realizing it was vecuronium, not Versed. She administered 10 milligrams of the drug to the patient, who then went into cardiac arrest and later died. No documentation of discussions between Vanderbilt and the family is publicly available. The cost of these errors amounts to about $40 billion each year. Shes been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on YouTube. Medication management is important for both CMS and the Joint Commission. As outlined in a 56-page report from CMS, which conducted an unannounced inspection of Vanderbilt after an anonymous tip apparently related to the Vaught case, the hospital failed or ignored accepted safety practices that placed its patients in "immediate jeopardy" in numerous ways. Despite numerous advances in anesthesia safety over the years, former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught's deadly medication error could have been prevented with a few system-wide fixes that aren't that difficult or costly. h222U0Pw/+Q0L)62)IXTb;; `t "Overriding was something we did as part of our practice every day," she said, according to an NPR report. According to a CMS investigation report, the death occurred because a nurse now identified as Vaught grabbed the wrong medication from one of the hospitals electronic She was on duty covering the day shift on December 25 and 26, 2017, as the Help All nurse in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (FOX 17 News) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) A Vanderbilt nurse made a deadly error and now the hospital has taken steps to ensure it She died hours later, on Dec. 27, 2017, when she was unplugged from a breathing machine. stream I made a bad medication error 17 years ago and nearly killed a patient. Certainly, criminalizing her mistake and charging her or any other nurse with negligent homicide and neglect was absolutely the wrong approach. April 23, 2008 - The Vanderbilt Medical Center main hospital and the new MRBIV building photographed from the new imaging center building. Murphey went into cardiac arrest and died on Dec. 27, 2017. According to the TBI report, She checked the Medication Administration Record (MAR) in a different computer and found the order was there for Versed. This article appeared on the Pharmacy Practice News website on December 15, 2022, 20 Year CA Effort Provides Framework to Advance Prevention Strategies, Another Round of the Blame Game: A Paralyzing Criminal Indictment that Reckless, Take a Leap in Your Professional Development, Gaining Efficiencies from Vial Transfer, Admixture Devices, ISMP Encourages Adoption of Medication Error Reduction Plans, Medication Safety Officers Society (MSOS). 1 0 obj She was told it was unnecessary and that the electronic medication administration would automatically record it. "The facility no longer meets the requirements for participation as a provider of services in the Medicare program," the CMS said in a letter this month to Chad Fitzgerald, regulatory officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system. She searched "VE" again and the cabinet produced the paralytic vecuronium. The article entitled Paralyzed by Mistakes said that neuromuscular blocking agents like vecuronium have a well-documented history of causing catastrophic injuries or death when used in error. The article goes on to say that the most common error involving these drugs is accidental medication swaps, which are often caused by documents with look-alike names. The article specifically cites vecuronium as a dangerous drug that can be easily confused others. VUMC quickly distanced itself from the incident. No Hayslip's statementsuggestsprosecutors built uponthe findings of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which investigated the death at Vanderbilt last year. He pointed to a 2019 paper in the British Journal of Anaesthesia that chronicled 7,072 provider-reported incidents in 104 hospitals in which a patient could have been or was harmed during a hospital procedure over a 10-year period in Chile and Spain. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on YouTube. The patient in question, Charlene Murphey, had been admitted on December 24, Christmas Eve, for a bleed in her brain that led to symptoms of headache and vision loss. Nurses are watching this case and are rightfully concerned that it will set a dangerous precedent. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on TikTok. Brett Kelman is the health care reporter for The Tennessean. Sign up for enewsletters and alerts to receive breaking news and in-depth coverage of healthcare events and trends, as they happen, right to your inbox. The failure of the hospital to mitigate risks associated with medication errors and ensure all patients received care in a safe setting to protect their physical and emotional health and safety placed all patients in a SERIOUS and IMMEDIATE THREAT and placed them in IMMEDIATE JEOPARDY and risk of serious injuries and/or death. CMS defined the nurses role in medication administration from a review of Lippincott Manual of, Edition "Watch the patient's reaction to the drug during and after, administration. Almost 10 months later, an anonymous complainant tipped off the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), giving an accurate description of the event, and concluding that VUMC had failed to report the event to the state, as required. Im so sorry for this nurse and the patient.. The medication error occurred on Dec. 26, 2017 while Murphey was being treated at Vanderbilt for a subdural hematoma that was causing a headache and loss of vision. Both her disciplinary hearing and the trial had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. by 5 0 obj WebSpecialist in development and provision of high-quality clinical care for older adults along the continuum of care in multiple settings. In early 2018, the hospital negotiated an out-of-court settlement with Murphey's family that required them not to speak publicly about the death or the error, the Tennessean reported. 20052022 MedPage Today, LLC, a Ziff Davis company. He can be reached at 615-259-8287 or atbrett.kelman@tennessean.com. Massachusetts General Hospital researchers reviewed 277 operations over a 7-month period between 2013 and 2014. Over the next two days, her condition improved. %PDF-1.6 % Nurses have previously rallied in support of Vaught. That report saidthe nurse, who at the time was not identified, intended to give the patient a routine sedative but instead injected vecuronium, a powerful drug used to keep patients still during surgery. It also states that the trial will be watched closely by nurses across the U.S., who are worried that a conviction may set a precedent -- particularly at a time when nurses are exhausted and demoralized, which can make them more prone to error. hDO]K@-H/T(ihE>zy)?NLTI&yIz?MmL_\Az;N[3-jt%aB!CQw G-35k&O&X5Zk.akkN4 Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. State surveyors made an unannounced visit to the academic medical center late last month and learned that a patient died after receiving not only the wrong medication, but a high dose of the errant drug as well, according to a report given exclusively to Modern Healthcare by the CMS. Because the patient was claustrophobic, a doctor prescribed a dose of Versed, which is a standard anti-anxiety medication. << One of those strategies is for hospitals and their pharmacies to create barriers to prevent or delay providers' access to certain high-risk medications in error, "such as wrapping plastic around vecuronium, or placing a hard, bright obtrusive label on it that says 'paralytic,' so there could be no confusion," said Daniel Cole, MD, former ASA president and current APSF president. She was publicly identified for the first time when she was arrested February 4, 2019 and charged with reckless homicide carrying a possible jail sentence of more than 10 years. Is this the med you gave (the patient? Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on TikTok. However, due to the circumstances created by the pandemic, the criminal trial was delayed until now. That's when the incident became public. Vecuronium Bromide is a potent paralytic used by an anesthesiologist when they perform intubation procedures, and the drug causes all the muscles to become paralyzed. The CMS report states the hospital failed to ensure patients' rights were protected to receive care in a safe setting and implemented measures to mitigate risks of potential fatal medication You couldnt get a bag of fluids for a patient without using an override function.. The hospital submitted a plan that required 330 pages to specify all the changes required. The timeline of events, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), is as follows. Charlene Murphey died in the early hours of December 27, 2017. "It is highly unlikely that RaDonda (or any other nurse) perceived a significant or unjustifiable risk with obtaining medications via override.". When she attempted to withdraw Versed from the automatic medication dispensing cabinet, she could not find the drug listed in the patients profile. Describe how you achieved the transferable skill, Critical, module 11 discussion - Reflection Areas for reflection: Describe how you achieved each course competency, including at least one example of new knowledge gained related to that competency Describe, The RaDonda Vaught case RaDonda Vaught, a Tennessee nurse, is the central figure in a criminal case that hascaptivated and horrified medical professionals nationwide. The CMS report also said the name of the drug Murphey got, vecuronium, was not disclosed to the medical examiner. But neither the prosecutor nor the Tennessee Board of Licensing Health Care has taken any action against the health system. Follow him on Twitter at @brettkelman. If their plan fails to meet CMS standards, the hospital could lose its Medical Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Facebook. About one fifth of the hospital's revenue comes from Medicare payments, according to the hospital's recent quarterly report, so the error had the potential to throw the The Nursing and The Law program from Nash Healthcare Consulting (NHC) covers hot topics involving nursing challenges including problematic nursing chapter standards with >> Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Twitter. Article describing criminal charges filed against a nurse involved in a fatal medication error references an ISMP newsletter article on common mistakes involving neuromuscular blocking agents. An estimated 7,000 to 9,000 people die each year in the US because of medication errors, and hundreds of thousands of adverse events are gone unreported. According to the Tennessean, about a dozen supporters -- some in scrubs -- gathered in the courtroom during opening arguments on Tuesday. A third strategy, he suggested, is for organizations to make sure their institutional culture does not "enable normalization of deviance," by which nurses and other practitioners normalize the process of finding workarounds, such as overriding safety blocks, to get things done. The hospital had failed to report the incident to the Tennessee Department of Health and the matter only came to light nearly a year later when it was discovered during a Despite numerous requests, the corrective action plan has not been made public by the federal government. The medication error occurred on Dec. 26, 2017while Murphey was being treated at Vanderbilt for a subdural hematoma that was causing a headache and loss of vision. According to the federal investigation report, the drug appears to have caused Murphey to lose consciousness, suffer cardiac arrest and ultimately be left partially brain dead. Vaught, who is out on bail, has declined to comment. When requested, information sent to ISMP can be privileged and protected, Mr. Cohen noted. MORE:Vanderbilt didnt tell medical examiner about deadly medication error, feds say. According to an inspection report given to Becker's Hospital Review by CMS, the patient was suffering from hematoma of the brain, headache and other related symptoms In a statement, the American Nurses Association said that COVID-19 "has already exhausted and overwhelmed the nursing workforce to a breaking point. By the definition of reckless,the defendants actions justify the charge.. However, the hospital didn't report the error to state or federal officials or to the Joint Commission at that time. In early 2018, VUMC settled out of court with Murpheys family, stipulating that the family could not speak publicly on the matter. The medical examiner told investigators that the Vanderbilt physician who reported her death said, "maybe there was a medication error, but that was hearsay, nothing has been documented. Cole referenced an Institute for Safe Medication Practices report that said Vanderbilt nurses and other providers routinely overrode automated dispensing cabinet safety features. "Charlene Murphey had received almost two dozen medications via override from various nurses in the days prior to her death," the report stated. She died one day later after being taken off of a breathing machine. Modern Healthcare empowers industry leaders to succeed by providing unbiased reporting of the news, insights, analysis and data. The nurse could not find the Versed, so shetriggered an override feature that unlocks more powerful medications, according to the investigation report. Follow. That indicates to him that medication errors could be happening with greater frequency. Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. Other topics involving nursing to be addressed include CMS hospital's regulations on safe opioid use, IV medication, blood transfusions, restraints, compounding, beyond use date, history and physicals, verbal orders, informed consent, plan of care, the timing of medications, and the post-anesthesia evaluation.CMS memos on insulin pens, safe injection practices, worksheets, organ procurement organizations, humidity, and privacy and confidentiality will be covered. Cheryl Clark, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today March 23, 2022. She was discovered 30 minutes later without a pulse, not breathing and unresponsive. Of those incidents, 1,970 (28%) involved medication adverse events and of those, 31% harmed a patient, mostly during the medication administration phase. Sentinel events, serious patient safety incidents, have reached their highest level since reporting of them began. A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurseaccused ofinadvertently injecting a patient with a deadly dose of a paralyzing drug has been indicted on charges of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse. Use the form at the end of this article to sign up for the WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Facebook. >VS"8uI,~< '' .@Nj,JeM}qHL+VgU~c: `Wu$,Kj,>t. Medpage Today is among the federally registered trademarks of MedPage Today, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. An emergency code was called, and after three rounds of chest compression, her heart rate and breathing returned. She was intubated and taken to the ICU. The patient died in December 2017 but surveyors said they did not find evidence that Vanderbilt had put procedures in place to ensure such an occurrence wouldn't happen again. It was a big wake-up call We are human, and we get rushed, busy and distracted. It allows both the institution to make changes to improve patient safety, and allows other institutions to learn from their mistakes. Other reports document the frequency of anesthesia-related medication errors closer to home. The material on this site is for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment provided by a qualified health care provider. A second nurse found a baggie that was left over from the medicationgiven to the patient. Cheryl Clark has been a medical & science journalist for more than three decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrpzNVBgTT8 Define high reliability, Describe how you achieved each course competency, including at least one example of new knowledge gained related to that competency. Cole, a professor of clinical anesthesiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, said it's important to work on improving systems where 80% to 90% of the issues lie, rather than on "outlier individuals" like Vaught who made a mistake. Im sure it was not intentional. A quality improvement initiative from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia called Wake Up Safe analyzed 6 years of medication error events at 32 institutions. She also allegedly did not recognize that midazolam is a liquid, while vecuronium is a powder that needs to be mixed into liquid. 2023 www.tennessean.com. And this has just set us back.". 2. On March 25, 2022, a Vanderbilt nurse, RaDonda Vaught, was found guilty of negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult, after making a Vaught. Additionally, the requirement that a second nurse sign off on accessing a high-alert medication could have added redundancy to the safety measures. "The error occurred because a staff member had bypassed multiple safety mechanisms that were in place to prevent such errors," said Vanderbilt Spokesman John Howser. To minimize medication errors, health practitioners must constantly be vigilant and aware while administering During an unannounced on-site survey of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in November, CMS learned a patient died at the hospital in December 2017 due to a medication error. Opens in a new tab or window, Share on Twitter. It generated quarterly operating revenue of $1.06 billion as of Sept. 30, up from $1.01 billion in the same period a year earlier. 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