Nurse charged in fatal drug-swap error pleads not guilty
(WorldNews Health)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee nurse charged with reckless homicide after a medication error killed a patient pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in a Nashville courtroom packed with other nurses who came in scrubs to show their support. The error happened at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in December 2017 when RaDonda Vaught injected 75-year-old Charlene Murphey with the paralytic vecuronium instead of the sedative Versed. The 35-year-old Vaught could not find Versed in an automatic dispensing cabinet, so she used an override mechanism to type in `VE` then...