Senior Internships at Walgreen's

Walgreen's employed four seniors from the Pharmacy program at South Technical High School.

Amber Haley (forefront) and Liz Drion are employed at the Bowles and 141 location.

Below is a picture of Michelle Yepez, a Pharmacist at Walgreen's who hired Liz and Amber as part-time employees for Walgreen's while they attend Melville High School and South Technical High School.  Michelle Yepez is also a valuable member of the Laboratory and Pharmacy Major at South Tech.   

                             Thank you Michelle for all you do for South Technical High School.

Medication Preparation

Students are adding the medication (M&M) to the container.

Placing a label on the container allows the medication to be dispensed indiviually or all at the same time.

Using a roller the medication is sealed to the container.

Making Medicated Lotion

Making Medicated Lotions 

Weighting the necessary ingredients to be used in the medicated is a very important step in compounding medication lotions.








 
Sandra is measuring the mediation that will be mixed into the lotion.

Using a mortar and pestle, the student triturates the dry ingredients together. This term is understood by the pharmacy students to grind the powders together to produce a fine powder.

 Stephanie is using a serologic pipett and bulb to measure the liquid medication to be added to the lotion.







 

Mixing the dried ingredients together using geometric dilutions. Compounding medications requires geometric dilutions which is to mix the larger ingredients into the smaller.

Danforth Plant and Science Center/Bridges Park Field Trip

 The St. Louis Community College at Bridges Park is a facility that gives students at the college a chance to work directly with Biotechnology companies.

Danforth BRDG-park

The field trip began with a tour of the Danforth Plant and Science Center. The tour guide showed the students a high powered electron microscope that can see very small objects such as viruses. 

 Using the 3-D glasses students can see the photographs from the electron microscope.

The photos seem to jump off the wall. Students tried to touch the virus particles as they came to life.

Students watch as the Lab workers collect and measure plants that will be tested for the possible use of jet fuel. 

 The tour of the green house gave the students a chance to see how Biotechnology is using plants to help create better plants for third world countries. Students enjoyed the type of work that biotechnology careers offered at the Danforth Plant and Science Center. 

Patrick looks at different plants in the greenhouse.





 

The tour guide explanded how the plants were geneticly changed to withstand drough conditions that would be problens in some of the third world countries.

Laboratory and Pharmacy Major students at the
Danforth Plant and Science Center

The Lab and Pharmacy students learn how to isolate DNA for a plant leaf.  

After isolating DNA from a plant leaf the students learn how to add the reagent to the E-Gel using micropipets.

                  

On the left are the results of the samples taken from a plant. The students will use this gel to interpret results by measuring the different size bands in the gel.

Click on the link below to learn more about the Danforth Plant and Science Center:

Danforth Plant and Science Center

Pill Making

Andreja and Stephanie oversee Sandra as she aligns the capsules in the Profill pill maker.

Mia is adding the tricturated material to the capsules.

Riam is adding size "3" pill to the Profill equipment.

Sabina is using the Profill pill maker to produce a compounded medication for a prescription.

Pharmacy Superscript Computer Program

The picture to the right is a screen shot of the computer program that the Pharmacy students use called Superscript. This program allows the students to practice using a real working computerized program that could be found in any small Pharmacy. Students complete labs using a workbook that helps them to practice how to input prescriptions.


Erin is work on an assignment using the Pharmacy's Superscripts computer program.

Capillary Puncture Activity

Emel is learning how to correctly take blood from Patrick, another student from the class. Each student in the junior class will practice taking blood under the watchful eye of Mrs. Melsheimer.

Danisha is using a microcentrifuge to spin her blood to determine her hematocrit levels. Other students in the class are overlooking how she is using the centrifuge.

Allie looks up from her computer to see Mrs. Melsheimer taking a picture. The other students worked to complete their assignment.