Toolkit Trivia
This toolkit is designed to educate K–5 students about medication safety in an age-appropriate manner.
What is the Elementary Toolkit?
Before taking a medication, you should check these three things on the label to make sure you are taking the correct medication.
What are the medication name, dose, and directions?
This is maximum daily dose of acetaminophen under standard FDA guidelines for a healthy adult in a 24-hour period.
What is 4,000 milligrams (or 4g)?
This is the ideal group size for planning an effective educational program for older adults.
What is 25 or fewer participants?
Pharmacists can recommend these four common options for patients who need to safely dispose of unwanted medications.
What are retail pharmacies, local police stations, hospitals, and medication take-back events?
This active ingredient found in many multi-symptom cold and flu products must be restricted or logged behind the counter under the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act (CMEA).
What is pseudoephedrine?
You are hosting a GenRx event for both 1st graders and older adults. This activity would teach 1st graders to ask trusted adults for help with medicine, and this worksheet would help older adults keep track of their medications.
Elementary: What is the Trust Team Tale Activity?
Older adult: What is the Medication Record Worksheet?
This is the recommended and safest household method for getting rid of unused or expired prescription opioids if a local take-back program is unavailable.
What is mixing them with an undesirable substance (like used coffee grounds or kitty litter), sealing them in a bag, and throwing them in the household trash?
When evaluating the maximum daily dose of a medication, pharmacists should warn patients about taking multiple OTC products that contain this same hidden analgesic.
What is acetaminophen (APAP)?