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ZO S K I N H E A L T H

“This has changed my life!” …and she’s not even at the “finish” (aka goal) line yet! 🤩

When I left bedside nursing to pursue aesthetic nursing over 13 years ago, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. I just knew two things: I loved needles (giving shots, etc at the bedside), and I loved beauty.

There were parts of me that felt like I was abandoning the calling I had to care for others. But if you’ve been a bedside nurse for any amount of time, you know that it looks a lot different than the Florence Nightingale days now, and likely a lot different than you may have envisioned it, prior to becoming a nurse. So much of genuine care is constrained by charting, reimbursement, liability, and rigid protocols, and you’re often chained to providing care that you don’t align with or may not be best for the patient, in the name of a protocol. For me, it got to the point that I knew in my heart it wasn’t something I could be a part of for my entire career, and I had an almost magnetic pull away from it. It wasn’t an easy decision back then, especially because aesthetic nursing was *just* becoming a thing, and was still very taboo, unknown territory. Even members of my own family called aesthetic nursing “superficial”, and felt I’d “regret the decision”.

But here I am, all these years later, having accomplished so much more, and having affected so much more change in human lives, than I was ever going to be able to do at the bedside. The amount of times a patient has told me that I’ve changed their life is not few. And THAT is what it’s all about, isn’t it? Finding the place in the world that you can affect positive change in the biggest way. Aesthetic nursing isn’t superficial, it honors how self-confidence and emotional well-being directly influence a person’s quality of life, allowing them to better show up in their own life and affect positive change, too.

Aesthetic nursing didn’t take me away from caring for others, it brought me back to it. And I’m so grateful.

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