After working as a paediatric and neonatal nurse for 13 years, Laura Banbury says a recent transition to the cosmetic injectables industry means her anxiety is now "completely gone".Australia's injectables industry is worth more than $2.6 billion and employs an estimated 4,000 people"After I went off on maternity leave and feeling burnt out … I was offered a job in a beautiful clinic five minutes' drive from my house," she said.
Cosmetic injectables, such as botox and lip fillers, must be prescribed by a doctor and administered by a nurse, or someone with higher qualifications. "Working shifts in emergency for 12 hours at a time with two young kids just wasn't feasible for my family," she said.Ms Jeans moved into the industry at a time when it was starting to boom and said her clientele has since "more than quadrupled".
"I would say 70 per cent of that … are registered nurses or enrolled nurses, with about 95 per cent of those registered nurses," Cosmetic Nurse Association board member Nicole Schmid-Sanele said.
The future is not as rosy as these people make out. The market is saturated with cosmetic injectors and competition is increasing rapidly with margins shrinking by the day. Too many fish in a small pond.
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God yes, you go girls. Health care is a dumpster fire that just keeps getting worse.
Better conditions and money?
No shift work in cosmetics industry?