Health care workers protest criminal sentencing of nurse in Tennessee trial

Hundreds of health care workers gathered outside a Nashville courthouse on Friday to protest the sentencing of a former Tennessee nurse facing 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.

The maximum sentence is unlikely, given her lack of prior offenses. A presentencing report rated her risk of reoffending as "low." Vaught faces three to six years in prison on the gross neglect conviction and one to two years on the criminally negligent homicide conviction; so at minimum, the judge could give her a three-year suspended sentence.