It's a very scary prospect, but nothing like what I found out the hard way a few years ago. You know how many doctors of various specialties are opening 'media-spas' and hiring estheticians away from salons? And these 'wellness' places offer botox, dermabrasion, laser peels, and laser treatments that zap those little broken capillaries away.
Well, surprise to me when I got laser burns on my face from an unlicensed woman who was legally allowed to work in this media-spas because 'it was under the doctors license'! It burned like someone put hot cigarettes out on my face and now 3 yrs. later I still try to cover up the scars with makeup. Evidently in KY anyone can be trained to wield a hot laser and legally work under the doctors license, with or without his/her supervision. Our state board can't inspect them either because it falls under the medical license, yet estheticians are allowed to do facials there, too. There's no medical standards as to how long this training needs to be, or if there needs to be CE's every year, so basically someone who last week was pushing paper in an office or slinging hash at a fast food restaurant can sit thru a 15 minute video and viola'!.....it's perfectly legal for them to work on the paying, unsuspecting public using tools that can maim and scar. So yes, it's going to be the wild, wild west again in Indiana's beauty culture if this bill comes to fruition. Others, take note of my experience before you visit any media-spas. Thoroughly investigate who will be doing any procedure on you and check into their licensing and the laws of your state. I wrongly assumed that since I, a mere nail tech working on the fingers and toes had to be licensed and inspected, that everyone working in the doctors offices doing laser treatments had to be, too. Jill Wright Bowling Green, KY. On Jan 11, 7:05 pm, [email protected] wrote: > There has been some confusion over this whole thing. The ROEC > Commission actually started a year ago this month. Their job was/is > to meet with board members and the PLA to discuss and make > recommendations on all licensing in Indiana. The Governors agenda is > to get as many people to work as possible, and if something is holding > them back, then remove the barriers. In this case a barrier may be a > license or schooling. > > The ROEC started with 7 Boards/licensing and after this year, they > will start with other boards and licensing. The meetings went all > year long. The final draft was sent to us in December. They > recommended that our board/licensing to be eliminated. > > The only way we can be eliminated is it must be voted on in the > House/Senate. As of Monday afternoon, the Governors office had put > this on a House Bill (1006)to be voted on this session. > > So yes Becky you might have seen issues wrote in April, we had updates > all year long. And also yes, it does say manicurists to be kept the > same. But this is only if we HAVE LICENSING. > > I honestly think this will pass, because, our Governor wants less > government regulation, and the House and Senate are lead by his party. > So it may go thru because this is his last year. And also, Indiana > is probably one of few states that are in the black when it comes to > money. Other states look at Indiana on how our Governor did this. > > diana from indiana > > > The information I pulled up says this happened April of 2011. Is there > > something I'm missing or more current? > > On Jan 10, 2012 6:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
