Nurses protest against Tennessee sentence for deadly medical blunder

Nurses protest against Tennessee sentence for deadly medical blunder
RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt University Medical Centre nurse, listens to the opening statements during her trial (Stephanie Amador/The Tennessean/AP)

Nurses have travelled from across the US to protest outside the court where a former Tennessee nurse faces up to eight years in prison for mistakenly causing the death of a patient.

RaDonda Vaught was found guilty in March of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult after she accidentally administered the wrong medication.

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