Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa trains Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners from Brampton, Caledon and Bolton in neuromodulator and dermal filler injection, taught in person in its own treatment rooms. Training builds competence. Authority to inject in Ontario comes separately, from an authorizing mechanism issued by an authorized provider.
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.
InvestmentConfirmed when you enquire
FormatIn person, in our Bradford treatment rooms
Who it is forCurrent registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
What the course includes
Included in the course fee
Open to RNs, RPNs and NPsThe prerequisite is current CNO registration, not a particular designation.
Taught in a working clinicReal rooms, real stock, real clients, real emergency equipment.
Small cohorts, hands onInjecting is learned with your own hands on a face.
Taught by a Nurse Practitioner who injects dailyAlex Dinovich, FNP-PHC, CNO registration 13564840.
Complications rehearsed, not mentionedRecognition, immediate management, escalation and documentation.
An honest route into supervised practiceShadowing in the same rooms, for the gap between a course and your first independent client.
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.
An hour, and two ways to do it
Brampton to Bradford is about an hour: Highway 410 north to Highway 10, across on Highway 9 to the 400, then north to Exit 64.
From Bolton and Caledon it is shorter, around forty five minutes, and you can do most of it on Highway 50 or Highway 27 without touching a 400-series road at all. On a winter morning that is often the better choice anyway.
Parking is free and at the door.
The designation question, answered properly
Brampton has a large population of Registered Practical Nurses, and the RPN question gets answered badly in both directions across this industry.
Some training providers quietly discourage RPNs. Some directors refuse to authorize them at all. Others authorize them on exactly the document written for an RN, which skips the analysis entirely.
Here is the actual position. Any nurse with current CNO registration can be taught to inject, and we teach RNs, RPNs and NPs in the same cohorts. What differs is the later question of what an authorizing mechanism can cover, which turns on your individual competence and on how complex and predictable the clients are. That is the analysis the College expects, and it is about you rather than about the letters after your name.
We have written it out in full on directorship for Registered Practical Nurses. Read it before you book training anywhere, because it tells you what the money is actually buying you a route towards.
What the course covers
Anatomy first, in detail, because it is what separates an injector who can handle a surprise from one who can only perform a technique. Then product and assessment: what a neuromodulator does and does not do, how filler behaves at different depths, how to assess a face rather than fulfil a request, and which clients to turn down.
Then injecting, hands on, in small cohorts. Then complications as a main subject: recognition, immediate management, escalation, documentation, and the short-window emergencies where the mistake is hesitation rather than technique.
What happens after, and why people get stuck there
A certificate is evidence of training. It is not a licence, because Ontario does not issue one, and it is not authority.
Authority comes from a directive or a direct order issued by an authorized provider. Plenty of nurses finish a course, start looking for work, and only then discover that the job requires something nobody mentioned during the training. How to become a nurse injector in Ontario lays out the sequence, and directorship for Brampton nurse injectors covers the arrangement itself, including mobile and home-visit practice, which is common in Peel and needs tighter drafting rather than looser.
If you are not ready for independent practice when the course ends, shadowing is the step in between, and it is the one most providers do not offer at all.
Who teaches
Alex Dinovich, FNP-PHC, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director, College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, with more than eight years in injectables, skin health and laser. She teaches in the rooms she treats in.
Enquiring
Tell us your designation, your registration status and what you have injected so far. We will tell you which course fits, the next dates and the full fee before you commit.
Call 647-333-6805, or use the registration form on the courses page. Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa, 444 Holland Street West, Unit 2, Bradford, Ontario.
Asked by nurses
Asked and answered.
How long is the drive from Brampton?
About an hour. Highway 410 north to Highway 10, across on Highway 9 to the 400, then north to Exit 64. From Bolton or Caledon it is closer to forty five minutes up Highway 50 or Highway 27, and those roads avoid highways almost entirely.
I am an RPN. Can I take the course?
Yes. The prerequisite is current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario. Designation matters later, for the scope analysis your authorizing mechanism has to do, not for whether you can be taught the technique. Any provider who turns RPNs away at the course stage is making a decision that belongs at the directive stage.
What will I be asked before somebody authorizes me to inject?
About your training, your experience, the specific interventions you want covered, the clients you intend to treat, and what you would do when something goes wrong. A director has to be satisfied about your competence individually, which is why a directive that simply adds your name to a colleague's document is not doing the job.
Is a weekend course enough to start practising?
On its own, usually not, and we would rather say so before you pay than after. A course teaches technique and judgement in compressed form. What most people need next is supervised practice, then increasing independence. Nurses who skip that step tend to have their first independent complication with nobody to call.
Do you train people who want to work in a spa rather than a clinic?
We will teach anyone with current CNO registration. Whether your intended setting can be covered by a safe directive is a separate question, and the honest answer is sometimes no, usually because of drug storage, privacy or the ability to manage an emergency. Better to know that before you spend money on training.
What are the dates and the fee?
Dates are being scheduled and you will have the exact timetable and full fee when you enquire, before committing to anything.
Sources
Where this comes from.
Everything on this page is drawn from the regulator, not from a
competitor's marketing. Read the originals rather than taking our word for any of it.
General information about Ontario regulatory requirements. Not
legal or regulatory advice. Nurses remain accountable to the College of Nurses of Ontario
for their own practice decisions.
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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 . 
