Florence Nightingale. Clara Barton. Radonda Vaught?
Mistakes and errors are regrettable but inevitable risks of the job for any patient-facing role in health care. As nurses, we are trained to report mistakes and errors when they happen. The maintenance of transparency in this way is an important element of our profession, intended to inform improvements that will, in turn, reduce the likelihood of a recurrence of the error.
The context in which Radonda’s error occurred may be …