Comments for Emily Jerry Foundation

Comment on Emily’s story by Crystal Soto

Crystal Soto — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:55:06 +0000

Emily’s story was shared during a work related meeting today as we discussed latent errors. Myself, as well as others in the meeting were deeply moved by Emily’s story. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. As I progress in my role as a healthcare professional I will keep the beautiful image of Emily in my thoughts and actively work to prevent such tragedies.

Comment on Emily’s story by Lindsey Jennings

Lindsey Jennings — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:51:53 +0000

I just cried a little as I read poor little Emily’s story. Its so heartbreaking for a little girl to go through something like that. My heart goes out to her, and to you the parents. I support your cause 100% and hope it goes far.

Comment on Emily’s story by Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:54:51 +0000

I came across Emily’s story while doing a continuing education test that is required by the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Board. I am a Pharmacy Technician in Mississippi, and much like your state was, mine didn’t require techs to be certified. Luckily with a lot of pushing, we finally got them to require techs in Mississippi to be certified in April of 2011. I personally feel like all technicians or anyone working with medications need to be certified or at least attend classes. I am like you; I have no idea how this tech couldn’t have known the difference in those two drugs. So many things went wrong that day. When I read little Emily’s story it just broke my heart. To know that this technician knew something wasn’t quite right, yet she continued to mix this solution anyways. The first rule we learn in Technician school is to always ALWAYS ask if we have questions or are unsure of something. Your dear little girl’s story really touched me, and I hope that only good things come from the death of your daughter. Everyone should be aware of just how dangerous some of these drugs can be. I’m so glad you shared her story with the world. I wish you and your family all of the best!!

Comment on Emily’s story by Kisha

Kisha — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:20:59 +0000

I wanted to let you know I shared your daughter’s story with my medical staff today. I manage a large medical practice and I speak about double checking names, date of births, lab orders, medication dosages all the time to avoid the very thing that happened to your daughter. The staff seemed to be deeply moved by Emily and how something so tragic occured that was 100% preventable. I thank you for sharing your story and hope that medical personel read it, understand it and apply it in every day of their jobs. Thank you and god bless your family. Kisha Lottes

Comment on A Beautiful Video Tribute to Emily’s Story by Nicole Ciaccio

Nicole Ciaccio — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:40:40 +0000

Thank you for sharing this amazing video. I was doing some research for my MSN program on patient safety this will inspire all of my students.

Comment on Chris Jerry to be Keynote Speaker at ISMP Cheers Awards & Dinner – December 6, 2011 – New Orleans, LA by Michael Weickert

Michael Weickert — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:27:17 +0000

I saw Chris this week at both the Cheers Awards and the Monday morning discussion with Dennis Tribble of Baxa. The story of Emily’s tragedy and its impact on family and healthcare workers and his desire to make such mistakes part of the past was moving to everyone in both rooms. In addition, Dr. Denham’s “Spotlight on Safety” talk on Wednesday morning highlighted Emily and Chris’ story and the forgiveness of and partnership with Eric Cropp, the pharmacist, to raise awareness of the pharmacist’s role in patient safety. Chris was a big part of this year’s ASHP programs on IV drug safety. Thanks Chris.

Comment on Emily’s story by Dennis Tribble

Dennis Tribble — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:38:30 +0000

Chris,

I have read through this story about 10 times now and it still moves me. I never quite make it through.

I find it equally moving that you could arise from this tragedy and honor Emily the way you do with the Emily Jerry Foundation. Keep up the good work.

Dennis

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Comment on Chris Jerry Takes Part in TMIT High Performer Webinar with Pharmacist Eric Cropp, Pilot Sully Sullenberger, and others! by Kay Walker

Kay Walker — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:27:17 +0000

I would like to know if you have examined the administration of oral medications by medical personnel. I examined a very limited dataset on particular medications administered mainly by nursing staff to adults and found that the error rate was the highest in the medication admin process chain and had not changed in 8 years. Most of the errors were over- or under-dosing. This was in major hospitals, publicly funded, in Australia. Many thousands of doses of oral medication were administered over the 8-year period [there are publicly available statistics on individual drugs] but despite publicised efforts to reduce errors, no reductions were evident. I have found no satisfactory studies of these sorts of errors in the literature. I’d love to be able to do a study myself, but I am long-term unemployed and unlikely to get another job in health. Perhaps you know of a relevant study or could influence the future conduct of one. I would like to see it!