The new program will provide technicians with the advanced information needed for working successfully with a physician or podiatrist.
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Nailcare Academy, home of the Advanced Nail Technician Program, recently announced their new online Footcare Nail Technician Program (FNT), a certificate program that will allow nail technicians to work in a medical setting. The program also contains important information for the salon-based Advanced Nail Technician Program graduate who wishes to develop a solid referral relationship with a physician or just wants advanced education to enhance his or her background.
The FNT Program doesn’t shy away from the realities today’s nail technicians face, and instructs students of the program in how to counter the negatives and enhance the positives on a day-to-day basis. Upon completing the ten modules and passing the exam, graduates will obtain a certification as a Certified Footcare Nail Technician (CFNT) – no internship is required. “However, if technicians wish to pursue working in the medical field, we highly recommend they pursue the additional Internship,” says Karen Hodges, co-owner of Nailcare Academy. “The internship is 40 hours in a medical office and at the end, the technician receives the Nailcare Academy Aseptic Footcare Specialist Internship Certificate (CAFS) to demonstrate to the patients and physicians their qualifications to work on chronically ill persons.“
The FNT Program is structured so that nail technicians who never intended to work in a medical office or who could not find an internship can still advanced training and certification to verify their level of knowledge to their clients. “It is very important to us to provide this verification for these technicians who worked hard to gain new knowledge,” says Janet McCormick, co-owner of Nailcare Academy.
“Certificates that visibly verify advanced education to clients are great tools to market higher knowledge and advanced skills to potential new clients,” says McCormick. “Being positively different – in this case, being trained to perform safe services on skeptical clients and chronically ill clients – can mean a much higher level of success for these technicians.” Times have changed, McCormick adds. “Just being a good nail artist is not enough to set a nail technician or salon apart from the crowd of competing low-cost salons. This training takes their income to new and higher levels.”
The Footcare Nail Technician and Advanced Nail Technician programs are online at www.nailcare-academy.com.
