No jail time for convicted nurse RaDonda Vaught

Former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught will not serve jail time after making a medication error that resulted in the death of a patient. She was sentenced to three years probation Friday for impaired adult abuse and criminally negligent homicide, both felonies that could have resulted in a three year jail sentence. 

Vaught was a “nurse’s nurse,” said Elizabeth Kessinger, a Vanderbilt nurse who helped onboard Vaught and was called as a witness in the sentencing hearing, the type of nurse someone in the profession would choose to take care of them. Hundreds of nurses gathered at Public Square Park on Friday in support of Vaught.