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.

Lab and Pharmacy class of 2012

Welcome class of 2012

Compounding Lip Balms

Senior Pharmacy students learn about compounding medications. Today students are making Lip balms from a procedure. Amber is using an analytical balance to weight up ingredients that will be used to make the lip balm.

This student is mixing the chemicals using a mortar and pastel.

Liz is making the final adjustments of flavors and coloring before pouring the solution into lip balm containers. The newly repaired lip balms will need to harden before the prescription can be used.

Who doesn't love Jeopardy?

This game was developed for use with the smart board. The students can touch the board and reveal the answers.

The students created questions that show pictures of blood cells that help them to review hematology for the test.

(the answer is segmented Neutrophil)

Sandra and Andreja are the MC's for Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Learning by playing games

Students in the Laboratory Major complete the year by creating a final game to help study for the End of Course exam. The students in the pictures have created games like "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and "Jeopardy". Creating the games helps the students to review information that they have learned and create a variety of questions for the games. Reviewing is much more fun for not only the students that make the game but also for the students that play the game.

additional pictures at Bridges Park

Lab tech juniors at Bridges Park


Liz and Stephanie filling their Chromatography tube



Mia and Alina hard at work.


Lauren and Sandra extracting the cool-aid from their column.


Lab students actively engaged in the lab.

Florissant Valley's Biotechnology program at Bridges Park.

The Lab and Pharmacy students seen in these pictures are working on a Chromatography Lab at the Bridges Park facility. Starting with grape Kool-aid, the students extracted the various colors and grape flavor from the reagent. This lab show the steps used to develop the many extractions that would be used in a biotechnology laboratory.

E-Gel results

Filling the E-Gel with DNA.
Results from the Electrophoresis of the E-Gel.

E-Gel

Fill the E-Gel with extracted DNA.

This student has completed the extractions of DNA from strawberries. After adding a solution of soap and salt to the smashed strawberries she strained the fruit and collected the remainding solution. After adding alcohol to the strained solution she was able to extract the freed DNA. The cloudy area above the red solution in the test tube below is the extracted DNA

The Juniors from the Lab and Pharmacy class worked on several Biotechnology labs and the following are pictures that will show several activites that they have completed.

Lab and Pharmacy Class of 2011

Meet the Laboratory and Pharmacy class of 2011