Nurse Prescribing

Good news for BACN members who are not nurse prescribers yet, because there is the possibility that a lucky member can receive funding from the BACN to do their prescribing course. So if you're not a member, then now's a good time join!
P.S. Don't forget to come to the BACN conference  September 16th and 17th, cheaper for members of course! There will be demonstrations of course! Come and see us there! Send us a Tweet @Aestheticplus

BACN Meeting Worcester

Another fabulous meeting with the BACN today. Some key points I took away are:

• The NMC want to attend the next BACN conference (Book the 16th and 17th in your diaries for the BACN Conference)
• How to update your CPD/PREP portfolio to keep your pin numbers up to date. Reflective practice is the way forward. (We will email this out free of charge, just ask.)
• How to choose a good Non Medical (Nurse) Prescribing course. The BACN may compose a database of courses that people have been on. Things to look for are distance learning, does your course allow calculators (you must achieve 100% in the calculations exam to pass)
• The BACN are building a list of willing medical mentors for nurse prescribers

Another good reason to become a member of the BACN.

Training Standards

Just like the aesthetic industry where treatments are offered and is unregulated, the training aspect isn't regulated either. As a result our clinical trainer has offered to help create standards for training with the British Association of Cosmetic Nurses (BACN ).

Facial Anatomy

Facial Anatomy at the BACN with the guest speaker, Appolonius Allen, an anatomist says, imagine this scenario.

"you have a patient who returns 2 weeks post a botulinum toxin treatment to the crows feet and returns with a right facial droop, causing the corner of the mouth to drop. Imagine the father of your patient is the anatomist"

Patient's Father "Tell me how you treated my daughter?"
Nurse "I injected into the obicularis oculi muscle, so this couldn't be caused my treatment"
Patient's Father "How do you know you didn't cause that droop? The origin of the zygomaticus major sit's under the obicularis oculi and contracts with it too. Are you positive this didn't happen?"

As practitioners, we need to be confident in our competence, and so, many nurses on the day of the conference left hungry to learn more and are eager to gain more knowledge of facial anatomy, and ensure they can minismise complications. As a result we have teamed up with an experienced practitioner, who will deliver a facial anatomy tutorial, covering everything from skin, to muscles, nerves and vessels to the bone in January 2011.