“I knew I didn't want those weekend hours, I wanted a better quality of life, which is why I chose the aesthetics field”, says young nurse Pâmela Roder.
Although she is passionate about care and closeness with patients, her expectations for her own future were not compatible with the hospital reality. After all, “nursing for love” alone is not enough, and it often makes these professionals hostage to the only exhausting reality they know.
Many nurses work for years and years feeling unhappy for what they believe is the only possibility within their professional training. Many also think that a reality of autonomy is not possible in the profession they chose.
But Dr. Pâmela wanted more; she wasn't satisfied with the rigid reality she already saw during her internships. She says she always liked trying to change the environment for the patient, to make it more humanized. And why not do that by offering aesthetic treatments?
“I did like the internships, I fell in love with being close and bringing care with a little more love, but I knew that wasn't where I wanted to be for the rest of my life, so I tried to look for something where I would have more autonomy over my schedule”, the nurse commented during a clinical immersion in Ribeirão Preto (SP).
She also came closer to aesthetics during a university project focused on caring for the self-esteem of women who have had mastectomies, REMA (Mastectomy Rehabilitation Center).
During this experience, she understood more deeply how aesthetics affects people's well-being, and the role that health professionals have the opportunity to play in promoting health tied to aesthetics.
“I always liked this field, and so I tried to look for something within nursing, what direction I could follow that covered this field. When I found this specialization, I was very interested because it was more specific to nurses,” she says.
She then plans to start her own business in the field: she intends to open a spa with other professionals, focused on well-being. Her idea is to combine what she is learning in the postgraduate program with her closeness to the hospitality industry.
Since her family has businesses in the area, she is envisioning ways to use her specialty to provide a space for relaxation and well-being.
“I chose the aesthetics field because of the autonomy it gives nurses.”
Practices such as ozone therapy and clay therapy are among those she is interested in implementing at first, but she is thinking about what else she can offer and deliver in the wellness niche.
Part of the Postgraduate Program curriculum, aromatherapy also fits into care aimed at well-being: integrative and complementary practices that have everything to do with building clinical spaces and increasingly pleasant experiences for the patient.
Whatever procedures and business model Dr. Pâmela decides to adopt, she is certainly specializing to offer the best experience to her patients.
Laís Bianquini
NEPUGA content team — Núcleo de Especializações Ana Carolina Puga.
