A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient has been sentenced to three years of probation.

The homicide conviction of a former Tennessee nurse for a medication error that killed a patient has become a flashpoint in the campaign for Nashville district attorney.

Patient safety and nursing groups around the country are lamenting the guilty verdict in the trial of a former nurse in Tennessee.

A former Tennessee nurse has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the accidental death of a patient because of a medication error.

The attorney for a former Tennessee nurse on trial in the death of a patient accidentally injected with a paralyzing drug told jurors the woman is being blamed for systemic problems at the medical center where she had worked.