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KU pharmacy group awarded $2,000
The KU Chapter of the Association of Professional Pharmacists was one of 10 chapters nationwide to receive a $2,000 award for a proposal to Project CHANCE.
Project CHANCE, or Chapters Helping Advocate for Needy Communities Everywhere, is a national organization that seeks to assist needy patients, who are most often uninsured or underinsured. Project CHANCE provides aid to community health centers and clinics that typically serve those with low incomes.
Zahra Nasrazadani, a second year pharmacy student from
Emporia, wrote the award-winning proposal titled Project PACE, or Patients Achieving Compliance via Education. Project PACE is a three-tiered plan to help patients acquire a better understanding of their medical conditions and medications, without all the health care jargon, Nasrazadani said.
"Some of the phrases that the medical world uses are not commonly used in normal conversation, and I think a lot of practitioners forget that," Nasrazadani said.
After her first year of pharmacy school, Nasrazadani did a pharmacy rotation in her hometown of Emporia. She said she was inspired by the efforts of the Lyon County Health
Department to incorporate Spanish on medical signs throughout the clinic and offer translators, so that a language barrier did not interfere with medical assistance.
"It could often be a life or death situation, and even if they don't speak English, it is necessary to communicate no matter what," Nasrazadani said. "They are definitely deserving of the same treatment as anybody else."
With Project PACE, Nasrazadani sought to develop a plan that would require community health centers and clinics to incorporate different languages on signs, pamphlets, prescriptions and other forms of medical instruction. In addition to offering explanations in different languages, Nasrazadani's proposal also requires practitioners to explain medical treatments in simpler terms that patients can understand.
"Even for people who speak English, sometimes the words the doctors are using just make no sense at all," Nasrazadani said.
Nasraadani accepted the award at the American Pharmacists Association national meeting in March in Washington, D.C. During the 2010-2011 school year she will work with other pharmacy students to develop and implement Project PACE in Douglas County.
Erin Brown
Bank robber dishes out cash on the run
ODD NEWS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police in Columbus are looking for a man they say robbed a bank near downtown, then handed two $100 bills to passers-by as he ran away. FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas said the man robbed a Huntington Bank branch early Monday afternoon after showing a teller a gun in his waistband. Trombitas said the man was running up the street when he encountered a mother and daughter window-shopping.
The robber stopped and gave them each a $100 bill, assured them it was real, then kept running. Trombitas said the mother and daughter from the Cleveland
area were in town for a visit to Ohio State.
They took the money to the nearest bank which turned out to be the Huntington branch that was just robbed, and there told police what happened.
JUNEAU, Alaska — A 24-year-old Juneau woman went into a public rest room packing heat and left burned. The Juneau Police Department reports Veronica Balle-Arnes was carrying a $400 pocket pistol with her Friday night.
Woman's gun gets stolen from the loo
She told police she took the gun out of her waistband and set it on top of a toilet paper dispenser and then forgot to pick it back up. When she realized it was missing, she returned to the restroom but the gun was gone.
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