1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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| 1. Clare is a 28 year old female that is trying to get pregnant. She comes into your pharmacy and would like to know if her current medications are safe to use during pregnancy. Her current medications included: Lisinopril, apixaban, levothyroxine, and pantoprazole. Using Lexicomp please provide the “Pregnancy Risk Factor” for Clare’s medications. | lisinopril – D; apixaban – B; levothyroxine – A; pantoprazole – B | 2. A nurse calls you and wants to know whether she can inject furosemide into the Y-site of an IV line concurrently infusing doxycycline. Using Micromedex please answer the nurse’s question about the Y-site IV compatibility.2 | Furosemide and doxycycline are not Y-site compatible.2 | 3. A patient developed bronchitis while on vacation in England and was given an inhaler of salbutamol. His American physician calls your pharmacy and wants to know what the American equivalent of salbutamol. Which resource is the most likely to help you answer this physician’s question?3 | Martindale3 | 4. Mark comes into your pharmacy and asks you questions about ichthammol ointment, which his grandmother bought over-the-counter to apply to cuts and scrapes. You are not familiar with this medication. The best place to look for information about this medication would be:4 | Handbook of Non-Prescription Drugs4 | 5. Using Lexicomp: What is the pharmacologic category of Xeljanz®?5 | Janus Associated Kinase Inhibitor5 | 6. A physician calls your pharmacy and would like for you to identify a medication. The medication is a white, oblong tablet with an “R” imprinted on one side and “127” imprinted on the other. Using LexiComp please identify the medication.6 | Ciprofloxacin6 | 7. Cody is a 56 year old man taking amlodipine 10mg for high blood pressure. He comes into your pharmacy with a prescription for simvastatin 40mg for high cholesterol. Using Micromedex please identify the severity of drug-drug interactions (if present) with amlodipine and simvastatin.7 | Major7 | 8. A nurse calls the pharmacy and would like to know the concentration for amiodarone to be given as an IV infusion. Using Lexicomp please provide the correct concentration for amiodarone.8 | 1.8 mg/mL8 | 9. A nurse calls the pharmacy and would like to know if an Invega® tablet can be crushed. Using Lexicomp please provide the nurse with information on the administration of Invega®.9 | Invega® tablets can NOT be crushed, chewed, or divided.9 | 10. A mother comes into your pharmacy and would like to know if she can use St John’s Wort while she is breastfeeding. Using “Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation” (found in Books@Ovid) please determine the recommendation for use of St John’s Wort during lactation.10 | Potential toxicity10 |
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