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— A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient was sentenced to three years of probation Friday as hundreds of health care workers rallied outside the courthouse, warning that criminalizing such mistakes will lead to more deaths in hospitals.A state judge imposed the sentence on RaDonda Vaught after she apologized to relatives of the victim, Charlene Murphey, and said she’ll be forever haunted by her mistake. “She did not deserve that.”In weighing whether to grant Vaught judicial diversion, Smith cited Vaught’s remorse as well as her honesty about the medication error.Speaking before she was sentenced, Vaught apologized to Murphey’s family if the discussion of systemic hospital problems and the danger of criminalizing mistakes took some attention away from the death of their loved one.“I’m sorry that this public outpouring of support for me has caused you to continue to live this over and over,” she told them.
As said here by Associated Press