Dedicated to nursing for 15 years, Suzana Correa, from Jacareí, in the interior of São Paulo, only recently learned that nurses in aesthetics find full autonomy.
This knowledge came from the great professional role models she met along the way. Above all, from how those role models showed her that nurses do not need to limit themselves to care-based activities in health, but can, through aesthetics, find much more autonomy and become the protagonists of the activities and results of their careers, something she is actively pursuing by taking the Postgraduate Program in Aesthetic Nursing.
Seeking a Lighter Career After 40
At 44, most of her professional path so far has been as a nursing technician. But she decided to broaden her possibilities even further, and for that she went back to school. For 3 years now, Suzana has held a nursing degree and a postgraduate degree in ICU with a focus on cardiology. With these qualifications, she now works at a UPA (emergency care unit) in Jacareí.
With more than a decade of clinical hospital work, Suzana is tired of the many years of exhausting shifts. In aesthetics she found a window of new opportunities, as she says:
“I decided to move into the aesthetics field to bring something lighter, because our field is very heavy, and I'm very tired.”
The Flexibility Nurses in Aesthetics Are Capable Of
In search of a more autonomous way of working, she aims to open her own clinic, just as her greatest role models in aesthetic nursing did.
The nurse also notes that her professional class continues to fight for the right to a decent salary floor, which only shows the lack of recognition for all the great work that nurses do across Brazil, and further fuels Suzana's desire to work for herself.
During the clinical immersion where we interviewed her, she had the chance to meet Dr. Ana Carolina Puga, who also offered a word of encouragement to everyone seeking more dignified and flexible working conditions through entrepreneurship.
After so many years of professional dedication and all her effort in her studies, she dreams of a reality in which she can, for example, organize herself to travel more, something unthinkable in the life of a shift-working nurse.
A New Perspective on the Meaning of Aesthetics in People's Lives
Seeing aesthetics as a possibility, she even began to see the patients she comes into contact with at the UPA in a different way, realizing how much self-esteem can influence these patients' different conditions and cases.
Like many professionals working in nursing, Suzana no longer wants to deal with pain, but with people's beauty, a beauty that is not only external, but also involves the patient's view of themselves, their self-worth. The nurse now realizes that the influence of aesthetics is not limited to an external result, or even a frivolity.
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As she reports, other conditions can be related to aesthetics:
“Many times patients come to me with depression, low self-esteem, because we know these illnesses are related, one ends up dragging the other along. As an aesthetic nurse, I am going to make a difference in these people's lives.”
The Aesthetics Market on the Rise
Another favorable aspect for reaching her goals is the current reality of the market, in which more and more people want to age in good health, with an appearance that makes them feel comfortable in their own skin, with renewed vitality.
Suzana sees in the aesthetics market more and more solutions and technologies to serve different audiences, including people from diverse social classes. The aesthetic nurse in training is very excited to work with different audiences, helping them find the glow of beauty, and having a much more satisfying career in the process.
Laís Bianquini
NEPUGA content team — Núcleo de Especializações Ana Carolina Puga.
