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Nurse sworn in, describes Waterbury Hospital training; board votes to enter executive session
Summary
Asia Aja Dodwell, a registered nurse, was sworn and described her LPN/RN background, short-term contract work and limited floor orientation at Waterbury Hospital before attorneys moved the hearing back into executive session. The board voted to enter executive session by roll call.
Asia Aja Dodwell, a registered nurse, was sworn in and testified about her nursing education, prior contracts and the orientation she received at Waterbury Hospital during a virtual hearing after the meeting returned from executive session.
Dodwell told the panel she first became a licensed practical nurse in 2006 in Florida and completed her registered nurse licensure in 2020, and began practicing in Connecticut in 2024. She said she worked on a 13-week contract at Yale’s surgical oncology unit before starting at Waterbury Hospital "sometime in September," and that the job she received at Waterbury was a med-surg float-pool assignment rather than the single-unit med-surg position she had applied for.
Dodwell described her orientation at Waterbury as one classroom day plus floor-specific orientation. She said the floor orientation was intended to be about four days but was extended to five because her first floor day was "really chaotic and hectic" and the training nurse could not provide full attention. She told the hearing she had been told, before starting, that the expected patient assignment could be "1 to 5 or 1 to 6," and that while she had received general instruction on the nursing "five rights" (correct patient, medication, route, time and dose), she could not recall any Waterbury-specific training about witnessing medication administration.
Attorney Kataya, who identified herself as representing the department, told the board that forthcoming questions would address the incident under review and said, "It would likely make sense to switch to executive session again now." Board member Cindy moved to go into executive session; Camille seconded. The chair conducted a roll call. Votes recorded as "aye" were Cindy, Mary, Lisa, Camille, Diane Whitley and Gina Reiner. Sal, Elizabeth and Alex were noted as having left the meeting. The motion to enter executive session was approved by roll call; the hearing then moved offline to review incident-related documents.
No public decision or final finding about the incident was announced before the record was paused for executive session.
