Pharmacy, Health Sciences & Exercise Science
That's Not My Medicine!
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Subject Area
Pharmacy, Health Sciences & Exercise Science
Start Date
11-4-2014 10:15 AM
End Date
11-4-2014 11:45 AM
Sponsor
Dennis Gardner (Butler University)
Description
Background: The CDC ascribes the majority of emergency room visits for children under the age of 12 to medications- either overdoses, unsupervised children, or medication errors. While it is imperative for pharmacists and physicians to ensure that the right medication is dispensed, it is also important for parents and children to learn how to take the medication properly.
Objective: To write a book which will help children better understand the role they can play in their own care by teaching them to identify the appearance of their medications, identify how much medicine they take, and remembering at what times they take their medication.
Methods: The objective is to write and illustrate a book for the age group of 4-8. The story centralizes around the main character, a little boy named Andy, who learns about his antibiotic and then has to remember key facts about his medication at school, at a caretaker's, and at home. The story covers three different locations and three different challenges: The What, How, and When of administration. The main character is dressed in saturated pigments to better engage young readers. Since many of the children looking at this book will have a parent reading to them, there will be a running joke included to help their parents finish the page and make the book more interactive. In this case, this object of interest comes in the form of Murphy, a little dachshund, and Oswald, the mischievous cat. All drawings are created using the SketchBook Pro© software, and books will be self-published by Mascot Books. Books will then be available for sale at the URC and on Amazon, with several copies being distributed free of charge to local doctor's offices and schools.
Significance: The purpose of this book is to help children take accountability for their own medications in an effort to reduce the frequency of medication errors in the home.
That's Not My Medicine!
Indianapolis, IN
Background: The CDC ascribes the majority of emergency room visits for children under the age of 12 to medications- either overdoses, unsupervised children, or medication errors. While it is imperative for pharmacists and physicians to ensure that the right medication is dispensed, it is also important for parents and children to learn how to take the medication properly.
Objective: To write a book which will help children better understand the role they can play in their own care by teaching them to identify the appearance of their medications, identify how much medicine they take, and remembering at what times they take their medication.
Methods: The objective is to write and illustrate a book for the age group of 4-8. The story centralizes around the main character, a little boy named Andy, who learns about his antibiotic and then has to remember key facts about his medication at school, at a caretaker's, and at home. The story covers three different locations and three different challenges: The What, How, and When of administration. The main character is dressed in saturated pigments to better engage young readers. Since many of the children looking at this book will have a parent reading to them, there will be a running joke included to help their parents finish the page and make the book more interactive. In this case, this object of interest comes in the form of Murphy, a little dachshund, and Oswald, the mischievous cat. All drawings are created using the SketchBook Pro© software, and books will be self-published by Mascot Books. Books will then be available for sale at the URC and on Amazon, with several copies being distributed free of charge to local doctor's offices and schools.
Significance: The purpose of this book is to help children take accountability for their own medications in an effort to reduce the frequency of medication errors in the home.