The Foundation Neuromodulator Course at Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa in Bradford, Ontario is a two day intensive covering neuromodulators alone, taught by Alex Dinovich, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director. It covers facial anatomy, muscle behaviour, assessment, dosing, supervised injecting and documentation, and the fee is $2,999.
Written and reviewed by Alex Dinovich, NP, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director at Bradford Skin Clinic & Medical Spa.
College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, verifiable on the
public Find a Nurse register.
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At a glance
The short version.
Investment$2,999
LengthTwo full days, 9:00am to 5:00pm each day
FormatIn person, in our Bradford treatment rooms
Who it is forCurrent registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as an RN, RPN or NP
What the course includes
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clinic confirms the detail. Anything in square brackets is an open question.
Included in the course fee
Day one, anatomy, assessment and dosing, 9:00am to 5:00pmFacial anatomy in the order you meet it, how each muscle behaves, and how a dose is actually decided rather than copied off a chart.
Day two, supervised injecting and documentation, 9:00am to 5:00pmHands on, with your technique corrected in the moment, and the record keeping that has to survive the treatment.
Taught in the clinic's own treatment roomsNot a hotel function room. The chair, the lighting and the trolley are the ones a working clinic uses.
Assessment, consent and documentation you could defend eighteen months laterIncluding photography, aftercare, and what to do when the phone rings on day three.
[To confirm with Alex: group size, number of models, whether models are provided, what you take home]
Not included: an authorising mechanism. The course gives you competence. Authority is a separate thing, and it comes from an authorised provider.
Where you will be standing
The room, not a slide deck.
You inject here, in a room that is running clinics the rest of the week.Assessment is taught in the room where assessment happens.Cohort size is confirmed in writing before you pay.
What the course gives you
Technique, on real anatomy.
Assessment, consent and documentation.
Competence you can demonstrate.
What you still need
Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
An authorising mechanism from an authorised provider.
A directive or a direct order that covers what you actually do.
Competence is not authority.
Ontario issues no injector licence, and no course grants legal authority to inject.
We can author the mechanism. You are not obliged to use us for it.
Taught on real anatomy, in a working treatment room.
Two days on one thing
Most foundation courses in this province cover neuromodulator and filler in the same two days. That is a reasonable way to spend the time, and it is what our Foundation Injectables Course does.
It is not the only reasonable way. Neuromodulator work and filler work are different problems. Tox is about muscle behaviour, dose and the passage of time. Filler is about tissue planes, vascular anatomy and volume, and it carries a complication profile that experienced injectors genuinely worry about. Teaching both in two days means teaching each of them once.
This course spends both days on neuromodulators. You leave without filler training, and with more neuromodulator practice than a combined course can give you.
Who it is for
Nurses registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario, as an RN, an RPN or an NP, who have not injected cosmetically before, and who either want to start with tox and add filler later, or do not intend to inject filler at all.
If you already know you want to offer both, take the Injectables course instead. It is cheaper than buying the two separately, and it is the more common path.
What two days actually buys you
Day one is anatomy, assessment and dose. Facial anatomy taught in the order you meet it rather than in the order a textbook lists it. How each muscle actually behaves, how it interacts with the ones next to it, and why the same area needs different doses in different faces.
Dosing is the part that gets rushed on a combined course. It is not a chart. It is a judgement made from what the muscle is doing, what the patient wants, what they have had before, and how they responded to it. That judgement takes time to build and it is the thing you are actually paying for.
Day two is your hands. Supervised injecting with your technique corrected in the moment rather than reviewed afterwards, and the documentation that has to survive the treatment: assessment, consent, photography, aftercare, and what to say when somebody calls on day three because one brow is sitting higher than the other.
The part most courses leave out
Finishing this course does not let you inject.
As an RN or an RPN, injecting a neuromodulator involves controlled acts you cannot initiate on your own authority. You need an authorizing mechanism from an authorized provider, which in practice means a direct order or a medical directive. A course certificate is not one. As an NP, you can initiate within your own scope, which is a genuinely different position and one worth understanding properly.
We cover that here, in detail, because a nurse who finishes a training course and then discovers she cannot legally use it has been sold something incomplete. Our guide to the Ontario pathway sets it out step by step and costs nothing to read.
What comes next
The clinical next step is filler, then complication management. The regulatory next step is your authorizing mechanism. Only one of those is more training, and you are under no obligation to buy either from us.
Dates, fees and registration are on the courses page.
Asked by nurses
Asked and answered.
How is this different from the Foundation Injectables Course?
The Injectables course is two days across both classes: neuromodulators on day one and dermal fillers on day two, at $3,999. This course spends both days on neuromodulators alone, at $2,999. The tox content goes further here because there is twice the time for it, but you leave without filler training. Which one is right depends entirely on what you intend to offer.
Why would I not just take the course that covers both?
Two honest reasons. The first is that filler carries a complication profile that neuromodulator work does not, and some nurses would rather be genuinely competent at one thing than newly acquainted with two. The second is scope: if you do not intend to inject filler, you should not be paying to be shown it once. If you do intend to inject both, take the Injectables course, because it is cheaper than the two separately.
Can I add filler training later?
Yes, and a number of nurses do exactly that. Advanced dermal filler training and complication management are both taught here, and the sensible order is foundation neuromodulator, then filler, then complications. Ask us about the pathway rather than booking all three blind.
Can I start injecting clients as soon as I finish?
Not as an RN or an RPN, because the course gives you competence and not authority. Before you treat anyone you need an authorizing mechanism from an authorized provider, which is a direct order or a directive. A Nurse Practitioner is different, since an NP can initiate the controlled acts involved within her own scope. This is the step most foundation courses in Ontario leave you to discover on your own.
I have never injected anything cosmetic. Is that a problem?
No. That is who this course is for. What you do need is current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario and a working comfort with sterile technique, consent and clinical documentation from your existing practice. If your nursing background is a long way from any of that, tell us at registration and we will say honestly whether to start here or elsewhere.
Why do you say neuromodulator instead of the brand name?
Because neuromodulators are prescription drugs in Canada, and Health Canada's Food and Drug Regulations limit advertising a prescription drug to the public to name, price and quantity. The College of Nurses separately bars nurses from referencing the therapeutic benefits of prescription drugs in advertising. A training provider that ignores both is teaching you compliance while breaching it in its own marketing.
How many models will I inject?
The model number is confirmed when you register and is given to you in writing before you pay. We will not publish a figure here, because the honest answer depends on the cohort and inflated model counts are the oldest trick in this market. Ask every provider you are considering for the number in writing and compare on that basis.
When does it run?
Cohort dates go on our courses page as soon as each one is committed to. We do not publish a date the clinic has not committed to running. If nothing on the calendar suits you, register anyway and tell us which month does, because places are offered from that list when a date opens.
Do I need my own insurance?
You need to speak to your insurer before you train and again before you practise, and you should assume the answer changes between those two conversations. Professional liability cover for cosmetic injecting is priced on what you actually do, under what authorizing mechanism, and in what setting. Nurses routinely budget for a course and forget this entirely.
Talk to us
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Written and reviewed by Alex Dinovich, NP, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director at Bradford Skin Clinic & Medical Spa.
College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, verifiable on the
public Find a Nurse register.
Last reviewed . 
