The Oregon State Board of Nursing proposed new rules that would require nurses to be vaccinated as a condition for being licensed. Similarly, the Quebec Order of Nurses announced that their nurses must be vaccinated or face suspension of their medical licenses. I can understand if your employer requires you to be vaccinated as that gives you the choice to either work for them or not. Besides, you can always get another job elsewhere. Nevertheless, to take away all your choices to … [Read more...]
Nurses Required to Participate Against Religious Objections
The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVM Medical Center) for forcing their pro-life nurses to participate in abortions. Even if a nurse expressed a religious objection to assisting in a sterilization or an abortion, the UVM Medical Center still assigned them to the procedures. However, the Biden Administration then recently withdrew the case and asked that the investigation be terminated. There was no reason given why this … [Read more...]
RADONDA VAUGHT LOSES HER LICENCE
As we have been following the story of RaDonda Vaught for some time, we’ve learned that she had her hearing before the Tennessee Board of Nursing. She made a medication error causing death. Ms. Vaught did the right thing by admitting to the error and taking responsibility for it but she also pointed out contributing factors from Vanderbilt such as the computer system linking to the medication cabinet was slow and nurses were told via email to override the safeguards so they could get … [Read more...]
RADONDA VAUGHT’S DAY IN COURT
In a previous article, I reported on RaDonda Vaught, a Tennessee nurse who was ordered to give versed to a patient undergoing a PET scan but instead administered vecuronium through a medication mix-up. As a result, she was arrested and has criminal charges pending for reckless homicide. This matter has been concerning because this clearly is medical malpractice but, can it also be involuntary manslaughter? If a jury finds Radonda guilty of reckless homicide, wouldn’t you agree that it … [Read more...]
Polarity Between Medical and Nursing Boards
In California, there was a proposed legislation that would add 2 seats so that a majority of members for the Medical Licensing Board would be consumers rather than doctors. This is an interesting proposition. However, in my experience, the consumer Board member does not contribute as much because they haven’t worked in the nurses’ or the doctors’ shoes. Evidently, the public is very suspicious of the Medical Board in California because of several complaints by patients against doctors … [Read more...]
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