"You could see a crisis:" what the RaDonda Vaught case tells us about nursing in America

The pandemic. Conspiracy theories. And now, the risk of criminal charges resulting from a mistake. These pressure points have emerged within the nursing profession in recent years, and are threatening both the short- and long-term stability of the field. Terri Hinkley, CEO of the Gloucester County, NJ-based Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses, gets us caught up to speed on the criminal case against former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught, who faces charges of reckless homicide and felony abuse of an impaired adult after a patient in her care died from the wrong medication. Hinkley sees potentially disastrous implications, and considers the trial yet another factor that could drive people away from nursing.