{"id":1171,"date":"2020-06-18T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:14:21","slug":"helping-hands-the-patients-program-hosts-ms-bjs-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/2020\/06\/18\/helping-hands-the-patients-program-hosts-ms-bjs-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Hands: The PATIENTS Program Hosts \u201cMs. BJ\u2019s Corner\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written By:<\/strong> Genevieve Polk, MPH, Assistant Director of Dissemination and Implementation for The PATIENTS Program<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>This post is part of a series of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/tag\/helping-hands\/\"><em><strong>Helping Hands<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0stories authored by School of Pharmacy faculty, staff, students, trainees, and alumni who stepped up to assist their family and friends, colleagues, and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/programs\/the-patients-program\/\"><strong>The\u00a0PATIENTS Program<\/strong><\/a> is a national leader in patient-centered outcomes research and serves as a bridge between\u00a0the\u00a0communities that encompass West Baltimore and researchers at\u00a0the\u00a0University of Maryland, Baltimore. With\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0preventing us from meeting with our community in person, we have gone online to stay connected to them virtually. On Thursday, May 21, we launched &#8220;Ms. BJ&#8217;s Corner&#8221; on Facebook, a program dedicated to sharing knowledge about health and research.\u00a0The\u00a0first program reached 414 individuals and received 280 views.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. BJ is a senior program specialist with The PATIENTS Program and a nurse. During\u00a0this Facebook Live event, she shared her many years of knowledge as a nurse and researcher. She explained\u00a0the\u00a0fear that many communities have regarding research due to past, negative experiences. For example, participants in research should be referred to as \u201cclients,\u201d not \u201cpatients,\u201d as \u201cpatients\u201d implies a state of illness. Ms. BJ clarified that clients in studies are compensated for\u00a0their time and travel. She also shared how important clinical research is for increasing awareness about treatments for illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, and for vaccines such as\u00a0the\u00a0flu vaccine and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0PATIENTS Program continues its efforts to bridge\u00a0the\u00a0gap between research and\u00a0the\u00a0community we serve during the COVID-19 pandemic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PATIENTSProgram\/videos\/536148853721965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch &#8220;Ms. BJ\u2019s Corner&#8221; here<\/a><\/strong> and be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PATIENTSProgram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow The PATIENTS Program on Facebook<\/a><\/strong> for more information about other upcoming events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PATIENTS Program hosts Facebook Live event to connect with local communities about health and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[308,309,354,311,120,37],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baltimore","category-community","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-genevieve-polk","tag-helping-hands","tag-patients","tag-phsr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pharmacy.umaryland.edu\/insidesop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}