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JULY 11, 2023

Part 1 of a series on responding to harm

RaDonda Vaught Shines Spotlight on ‘the Second Victim’

By Gina Shaw

“With all the preparation we have in the medical field, nobody prepares you for an event like this,” said former nurse RaDonda Vaught, BSN, during a session on systems failure at the ASHP 2023 Summer Meetings & Exhibition, held in Baltimore. “There’s no guidebook on what to do after you accidentally kill someone.”

Natasha Nicol, PharmD, the director of global patient safety affairs for Cardinal Health, introduced Ms. Vaught by first sharing her own