High school students in Mrs. Melody’s “Practical Health and Medicine” class recently learned about the different types of injections used in health care during a skills lab on October 24. The class is part of a high school concentration on Health and Medicine.

Melody invited ACS parent and nurse Justyna Montemurro to lead the skills lab. Montemurro is a maternity and delivery nurse at Inspira Medical Center in Vineland.

The students were able to use different needles and practice doing three types of injections on oranges. They also learned how to start an IV line on a patient.

“It’s very valuable for our students to have hands-on experience putting into practice what we have been learning in class,” Melody said. “The students enjoyed it a lot and it further confirmed to them their interest in the medical field.”

The students who are part of the year-long class, which meets five days a week, are Daniella Ajayi, Tommy Ellison, Noelle Thompson, and Kennedy Vasquez.