Hi everyone, I'm super excited to be here. I feel official and all that jazz. So I am currently in Nursing school about to start clinicals (ADN program) in August. I'm passionate about healthcare, mostly preventative and holistic medicine. I can not see myself working in a hospital setting. My goal is to work in a med spa, get practice, and then open my own spa. More on the RN esthetician side I guess. (Spa will offer deep tissue message, facials, body wraps, injectables, etc...the complete gamut) If you are an RN in this field, or an RN that owns a med spa/spa or similar business, I would really appreciate your advice. This is what I want to do. Have you ever heard of an RN doing this? Is this something an RN can even do?
Specializes in Home Care, Palliative Care, Elder Care.
Being a nurse entrepreneur is super exciting! Definitely go for it!
When you are working independently it definitely important to know the scope of practice like others have mentioned, but as a business owner you can also hire staff with the skills needed for your spa that can provide services that are safe and professional, even if they may not be within your scope of practice. Being a business owner is an adventure!
I opened a private senior care home health agency about 12 years ago and I was very conservative and followed every regulation to the letter, but most of my nursing colleagues & friends spent their time telling me that I was doing something they would never consider because it's silly to take on that "liability". There is a lot of fear that if you aren't working under the umbrella of a big company that you are putting yourself at risk, but the reality is that working with people always involves some risk, and when you are the owner at least you are in charge and can determine what is acceptable to you and your business, and you can always set the standard to be very HIGH for quality of care.
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Bright RN what did you decide to do? thanks