1. Medication Safety Patrol: Trivia Game
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2. Instructions
Each team takes turns to choose a category and point value.
After the statement is read, each team will write an answer on the answer sheet.
Points will be awarded for correct answers only.

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Choose a point value.
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I Spy in the
Pharmacy…
Medicine
Safety Patrol
Prescription
Puzzlers
Rhyme Time
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Final Question

5. Name the individual who fills and dispenses medicine in a pharmacy.

6. A pharmacist
A pharmacist understands drug uses and therapeutic roles, side effects, and potential drug interactions.

7. Name a substance that is used to treat disease or injury.

8. A medicine
Medicine can also be used to prevent diseases/injury.

9. Name a type of medicine that a doctor prescribes to treat disease or injury.

10. A prescription medicine
Must be prescribed by a medical professional with prescribing privileges (doctor, certified nurse practitioner, vet, dentist).

11. Name a type of medicine that can be purchased at a pharmacy without a prescription.

12. An over-the- counter medicine
Medicines that are relatively safe (when taken as directed) without supervision by a doctor

13. Name a SAFE place to store medicines in a home.

14. Locked kitchen or medicine cabinets
Adults should keep medications in a secure, cool, dry place away from children or pets.

15. Name an UNSAFE place to store medicine in the bathroom.

16. The bathroom counter
Children may easily access medications left in this location.

17. Name an UNSAFE place to store medicine in the kitchen.

18. The kitchen counter
Children may easily access medications left in this location.

19. Is this a SAFE or UNSAFE place to store medicine?
Medicine stored in a plastic bag, placed in a purse or backpack.

20. UNSAFE place!
Adults should destroy all information on the prescription bottle. An adult could use a ziplock bag and fill it with kitty litter or coffee grounds to make the medication unappealing. Putting medication down the drain can be harmful to the environment

21. The pharmacist receives a shipment of 25 penicillin tablets.
They need to divide these tablets evenly across 5 prescription bottles.
Each bottle will have ____ tablets.

22. 5 penicillin tablets per bottle.
Pharmacists must often know quick math to make calculations off the tops of their heads.

23. A doctor instructs a patient to take 1 pill, three times a day, for 10 days.
The pharmacist should dispense ____ pills to the patient.

24. 30 pills

25. A doctor instructs a patient to take three, 100 milligram tablets of a medicine once a day.
In one day, the patient will take ____ milligrams of medicine.

26. 300
milligrams

27. The pharmacist needs to break each medicine tablet into halves.
If the pharmacist has 12 tablets to break, they will have ____ tablets in total when they are done.

28. 24 tablets

29. Use a _____ to secure a medicine cabinet.
Rhymes with dock.

30. Lock
This will prevent children or unwelcome guests from taking potentially dangerous medication.

31. Medicines may look like _____.
Rhymes with sandy.

32. Medicines should always be
Candy
Medicines should always be
stored in their
original container!
Children should only take medicine from a trusted adult. Medicine should also always be kept in its original container so that it cannot be confused with candy.

33. You should never ____ prescription medicines with anyone.
Rhymes with pair.

34. Share

35. Only take medicines with the permission of an ______ such as your parent or guardian.
Rhymes with consult.

36. An adult
An adult can properly understand and give medications the way they were intended to be given. They will make sure you get the correct dose and in the proper way.

37. Final Question
Make your wager…

38. Kim and Sarah are jogging, and Sarah begins to have trouble breathing
Kim and Sarah are jogging, and Sarah begins to have trouble breathing. Sarah uses Kim’s medicine inhaler to help her breathe.
What medication safety rule did Sarah and Kim break?

39. Instead of giving Sarah her inhaler, what should Kim have done?
Sharing medicine or taking a prescription medicine not prescribed for you.
Instead of giving Sarah her inhaler, what should Kim have done?
It is important not to give others your medications. Always contact an adult or call 911 in the instance of an emergency.

40. Thank you for playing! Please remember:
Only take medicines with the permission of a parent or guardian.
Always keep candy and medicine in their original container.
Never share your medicine with others.
Ask a trusted adult to keep medicines in a safe place in their home.