VHCA-VCAL associate member Hancock Daniel has issued a client advisory on the criminal conviction of an RN following a fatal medication error. The case could impact virtually all aspects of health care law including employment law, licensure investigations, state and regulatory investigations, medical malpractice lawsuits, and patient safety initiatives.

On March 25, 2022, a jury in Nashville, Tennessee found a former Vanderbilt nurse guilty of negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult related to a medication error in 2017.

Read the full advisory: Criminal Conviction Following a Fatal Medication Error: The Radonda Vaught Case