Purpose: To provide busy parents and inexperienced patients with a guide on mixing and dispensing liquid antibiotics.I hope to create and usable and thorough set of instructions on the proper way to mix up a reconstitute medication and provide dosage tips and advice to prevent customers from improperly giving or taking there antibiotic.
Audience: Parents and pharmacy customers
1. From my experience as a pharmacy tech, the wide majority of patients who are prescribed liquid antibiotics are children because it is less stressful on both the child and parent.
2. There may also be some patients who prefer liquids to tablets, and can range from absolutely any age and background
3. May be anxious from having sick children or from being sick themselves
4. Will not want to search through text material to find out how to make themselves feel better
Context: My audience will most likely be reviewing the instructions during daytime hours. They may not feel well, and will not want their head overloaded with unnecessary facts or steps. The communication will most likely occur at a patient's house or place of work. My motivation for this communication is the prescribing of liquid antibiotics and the lack of understanding on how to prepare and dose those medications.
Strategies: I want to make sure the directions are completely clear, with a bold title so patients can see that directions are provided. Graphics will be needed to help those who are visual learners, and I don't want the information to be too wordy and cause frustration for sick customers.
Medium: Because these instructions will most likely be placed in a prescription bag that go along with the patient's medication, I will also put it in print. I would like to do a short, brochure style publication with easy font and attractive colors. Pictures will be included at every step they are necessary for explanation.
Arrangement: For my brochure or pamphlet there will be no more than two steps per page. I will also be bolding tips, hints, and don'ts.
Testing: For my testing I will let my roommates flip through the brochure and make sure they can understand how to properly mix and give a medication.
Comment
Very well written. You have a clear plan for what you want to do and how you will do it. I liked the idea to put the instruction set inside the bag of antibiotics.
Everything seems to be well organized and explained, Id like to know more about testing... Having roommates look over the booklet is fine but there is also an outside medium you could try, roommates will only give it a once over before they give a review, also they might not know much about the use of medication and children for that matter.
If anything the only thing your instruction set has to do with me is the use of people. Outside of that there isn't much that will fold over.
For an older audience there will be bigger lettering and maybe even someone to actually show how to use the drugs.
peer review
1. the element covered most thoroughly is probably the medium. This element is discussed very clearly and it is very apparent how the instruction set will look. However, all elements are pretty much covered as thoroughly as possible.
2. Having said that, the testing element could be covered a bit more. I know how you are going to test it, but maybe try with a different member of the audience as well, say a parent.
3. I also need to make my instructions clear and understandable for an audience maybe not accustomed to the topic being covered in the instructions.
4. I think that these instructions would work best in a pamphlet, but could also work online, although that may not be ideal. but other than that, all the elements of these instructions are probably the best for these instructions.