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Kristen Gilbert was the nurse everyone trusted during emergencies. She was respected by peers, featured in the VA magazine, and organized staff events. But shockingly, Gilbert was ultimately convicted of killing four veterans with lethal epinephrine doses—the very drug designed to save lives. Staff had jokingly called her "The Angel of Death"—never imagining the truth behind the nickname.
This chilling true story poses a question every nurse must grapple with:
**How do you tell the difference between noticing a real pattern—and seeing things that aren’t there?**
And what if the warning signs are obvious, but nobody acts for years?
#NursingStudents #NCLEX #TrueCrime #ClinicalSkills #NURSINGdotcom
Kristen Gilbert was the nurse everyone trusted during emergencies. She was respected by peers, featured in the VA magazine, and organized staff events. But shockingly, Gilbert was ultimately convicted of killing four veterans with lethal epinephrine doses—the very drug designed to save lives. Staff had jokingly called her "The Angel of Death"—never imagining the truth behind the nickname.
This chilling true story poses a question every nurse must grapple with:
**How do you tell the difference between noticing a real pattern—and seeing things that aren’t there?**
And what if the warning signs are obvious, but nobody acts for years?
#NursingStudents #NCLEX #TrueCrime #ClinicalSkills #NURSINGdotcom
![[Murder Rounds] The Neutral Reference: Charles Cullen, Part 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AGtgLLW4S3I/mqdefault.jpg "[Murder Rounds] The Neutral Reference: Charles Cullen, Part 2
⚠️ Murder Rounds is a true crime podcast about healthcares deadliest killers written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. Listener discretion advised.
Charles Cullen pled guilty to twenty-nine murders. Nobody — not the prosecutors, not the detectives, not the judge — could tell the families whether twenty-nine was the number.
He traded his life for a list. No death penalty, in exchange for helping identify every victim going back to 1984. Which meant the state of New Jersey had made the only man who knew the answer into its only source for it. His memory was the ledger, and there was no way to audit it.
Then he stopped cooperating — over a kidney. The count stopped at twenty-nine not because theyd found everyone, but because the only instrument they had switched itself off.
In this episode: the plea that took four months and seven counties · what a 1993 medical record can and cant prove thirty years later · the families who got a trial date and lost anyway · a hospital that sued the estates of dead patients · and Amy Loughrens pacemaker
The Chart Review: why the chart is the only witness that outlives everyone — and what the record of this case says about how to raise a concern so it survives.
Sources: Krapf v. St. Luke Hospital (Pa. Super. 2010); Vivian v. Blank Rome, 2024 PA Super 118; St. Luke Hospital of Bethlehem v. Vivian (Pa. Super. 2014); CBS News; NBC News; Associated Press; Philadelphia Inquirer; contemporaneous reporting 2004–2020.
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