By Caleb Wethington

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has released an order in the attempt by former nurse, RaDonda Vaught, to have her nursing license reinstated.

On Thursday, the court ordered that Vaught’s license will remain revoked. She was a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who was convicted of criminal neglect homicide in 2022.

Vaught’s case received national attention as she was convicted in May 2022 for a medication mix-up that killed Charlene Murphey in 2017.

The judge in the case sentenced Vaught to three years of probation and her nursing license was taken away. The appeals court affirmed the original decision to revoke her registered nurse’s license.

“This is an appeal arising from a decision by the Tennessee Board of Nursing (“the Board”) to revoke a registered nurse’s license after she retrieved the wrong medication from an automatic dispenser and administered it to a hospital patient, resulting in the patient’s death,” the court said.

“We affirm the trial court’s November 27, 2023 order upholding the Board’s decision to revoke Ms. Vaught’s nursing license. The case is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with this Opinion and collection of costs assessed below. Costs on appeal are assessed to the appellant, RaDonda Vaught.”