/ en Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:12:56 -0500 Fri, 13 May 22 15:01:04 -0500 /press-releases/2022-05-13-aha-statement-response-sentencing-former-nurse-radonda-vaught <p class="text-align-center"><strong>Robyn Begley, DNP, RN<br /> Chief nursing officer of the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association & CEO of the<br /> American Organization for Nursing Leadership</strong></p> <p class="text-align-center"><strong>May 13, 2022</strong></p> <p>We are pleased that the judge showed leniency in the sentencing of a health care professional who made a medical error. Tragic incidents that result from medical errors should not be <a href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9728/to-err-is-human-building-a-safer-health-system" target="_blank">criminalized</a>. When errors happen hospitals and health systems need open lines of communication to identify and understand the series of events so they can update patient safety systems to further prevent errors. Criminal prosecutions will discourage health caregivers from coming forward with their mistakes and will complicate efforts to retain and recruit more people into nursing and other health care professions that are already understaffed.</p> <p class="text-align-center">###</p> <p>Contact:   Marie Johnson, <a href="mailto:mjohnson@aha.org">mjohnson@aha.org</a><br />                 Colin Milligan, <a href="mailto:cmilligan@aha.org">cmilligan@aha.org</a></p> Fri, 13 May 2022 15:01:04 -0500 Medication Errors