We recently connected with Jayme Pronger and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Jayme, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about how you went about setting up your own practice and if you have any advice for professionals who might be considering starting their own?
My career started when I was a young 22 year old in the Aesthetics industry working under a well-respected Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. At the time, I was a licensed Aesthetician, assisting with all pre-operative and post-operative cares of the skin and body. I also learned all the ins and outs of running a successful practice by helping with anything I could assist with in the office; not realizing that I too, 20 years later, would be opening my own practice. I later became a Registered Nurse and then a Certified Surgical Nurse.
I worked as an Independent contractor in a different medical spa for over 10 years, managing the entire movement of the business and practicing aesthetic nursing, while also working at a large hospital with 18 operating rooms as a surgical nurse, alongside many surgeons. Talk about learning time management, being extremely punctual, and endless knowledge-gaining opportunities.
Collectively, all the skills and years’ experience gave me the courage to open my own extremely successful medical spa in 2020.
Advice I would give to a younger professional considering the Aesthetics field is to always consider every task and experience you are given as an opportunity to learn and grow. We all have to start somewhere.
Jayme, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I am in the Aesthetics industry and, as mentioned previously, my journey started at the young age of 22; I am now in my 40’s.
My credentials are Advanced Practice Aesthetician, Registered Nurse, Certified Surgical Nurse.
The services I provide are corrective makeup applications, Pharmaceutical skin care product consultations, Chemical peels, Dermaplaning, various laser treatments, Botox injections, filler injections, vitamin injections, and Microneedling.
What am I most proud of?
That I am a first generation college graduate.
What sets me apart from the rest?
That I love to continue my education in this industry, oftentimes traveling to find what’s best in the industry outside of my state. I specialize in all skin ethnicities; starting my career working for a surgeon from a different country gave me the opportunity to learn and excel with all skin types.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
The plastic surgeon’s office I started with had to let me go due to the economic crisis. This was right when September 11th was crashing the economy. Plastic surgeons were closing their practices or looking for ways to save money, and unfortunately this is how I lost my job. I was a young single parent and had just purchased my own home. I went to work on what I thought would be a typical Monday and left that day without a job.
My resilience came from picking myself up and enrolling in Nursing school; a goal I wanted to achieve at that time but wouldn’t have found the opportunity to if I had still worked at that office.
It took many years to accomplish this goal, but I finally did, and I thank this very experience listed above for this.
Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?
Absolutely NOT! I knew I wanted to care for skin and help people before I knew there was even a profession for it. Aesthetics work is absolutely my chosen path in this life. I get to wake up each and every day and help people feel better about themselves. This brings so much joy to me and fuels my soul knowing that I am helping people feel like the best versions of themself.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.nursejaymeaesthetics.com
- Instagram: @nursejaymeaesthetics
Image Credits
Janelle Olson; Photographer