Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa trains Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners from Toronto in neuromodulator and dermal filler injection, taught in person in a working clinic about an hour north of the city on Highway 400 or a Barrie line train from Union Station. Training builds competence; it does not grant authority to inject, which comes from an authorizing mechanism.
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 .
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
Taught in a clinic that treats patients the rest of the weekThe same rooms, the same stock, the same emergency equipment you would actually reach for.
Small cohortsBecause injecting is learned with hands on a face, not from the back of a room.
Taught by a Nurse Practitioner who injects dailyAlex Dinovich, FNP-PHC, CNO registration 13564840.
Anatomy and complications taught as the main subjectNot as the slide before lunch.
An honest account of what a certificate isEvidence of training. Not a licence, and not authority to inject.
Free parking, and a GO station if you would rather not driveUnion to Bradford on the Barrie line.
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 north, and the reason it is worth it
Toronto has no shortage of injector courses. Some are excellent. A good number are a hotel function room, a slide deck, forty people and a model each for the afternoon.
We teach in the clinic we run. The rooms are the rooms, the stock is the stock, the emergency drugs are the ones on our own shelf with our own expiry dates on them, and the clients are ours. That is the entire argument for the drive, and it is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up: if you can find that in the city, take it, because an hour is an hour.
What you cannot learn in a rented ballroom is how a treatment room is actually arranged so that the thing you need is reachable with one hand, who checks the expiry dates and when, what is written on the outside of the drawer, and how a protocol is stored so a covering colleague can find it without phoning you.
Getting here without a car
Highway 400 north to Exit 64, then east into Bradford. About an hour from downtown outside the peaks, more on a Friday afternoon in summer when the cottage traffic starts.
If you would rather not drive, the Barrie line runs from Union Station to Bradford GO, and we are a few kilometres west along Holland Street, a short taxi ride from the platform. Check the timetable for your course day, because midday service is thinner than the commuter peaks.
Parking here is free and outside the door. For a full day of training that is not nothing compared with a downtown venue.
What we teach, and in what order
Anatomy first, and properly. Where the vessels are, which planes you are working in, and what is directly underneath the point of the needle at every area you will treat. This is the part that separates an injector who can handle an unexpected event from one who can only perform a technique.
Then product and assessment: what a neuromodulator does and does not do, how filler behaves in different planes, how to assess a face rather than treat a request, and which clients you should decline.
Then injection itself, hands on, with small numbers so that you inject rather than watch.
Then complications, taught as a main subject. Recognition, immediate management, escalation, documentation, and the ones with a short window where hesitating is the problem. Our dermal filler complications course goes further for people who want it, and we would rather you took it than not.
The thing most course pages will not tell you
A certificate is not a licence. Ontario does not licence injectors and no college, including ours, can grant you authority to inject.
You will leave here with evidence of training, which is what an employer, an insurer and a prospective medical director will reasonably want to see. You will not leave with legal authority to initiate a controlled act, because that comes from an authorizing mechanism issued by an authorized provider, and that is a separate arrangement with a separate person. How to become a nurse injector in Ontario sets out the full sequence.
If a course in any city tells you its certificate lets you start practising, that is the moment to close the tab.
After the course, if you are practising in Toronto
Toronto practice has a shape that affects what your authorizing mechanism has to say: several sites, rented rooms, sometimes mobile work. A directive names the circumstances in which it applies, and those are different circumstances. We have written that out on medical directorship for Toronto nurse injectors.
If you are not ready for independent practice straight after a course, and many people are not, shadowing is the honest intermediate step.
Tell us your designation, your registration status and what you have injected so far. We will tell you which course fits, what the next dates are, and the full fee before you commit to anything.
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 do I get to Bradford from Toronto?
By car it is about an hour from downtown, straight up Highway 400 to Exit 64, longer in the Friday afternoon peak. By train, the Barrie line runs from Union Station to Bradford GO, and the clinic is a few kilometres west along Holland Street from the station, a short taxi ride. Our car park is free, which Toronto training venues rarely are.
Why train outside Toronto when there are courses in the city?
Only for reasons that matter to you. Ours is that this is a working clinic rather than a rented room: the beds, the stock, the hyaluronidase and the emergency equipment are the ones in daily use, and the clients are the clinic's own. If a Toronto course gives you small numbers, real clients and a teacher who injects daily, that is a good course and proximity is a genuine advantage.
Does your certificate let me inject in Toronto?
No, and nobody's does. Ontario has no injector licence and no course confers legal authority. A certificate is evidence of training. Authority to initiate the controlled acts involved comes from an authorizing mechanism issued by an authorized provider, which is a separate arrangement. Any course implying otherwise is describing something that does not exist.
Can I do the training and sort out a medical director at the same time?
They are separate things and we keep them separate, but it is sensible to think about both. Training gives you competence, directorship gives you authority, and you need both before you can practise. Our page for Toronto nurses on directorship explains what the mechanism has to cover if you work across several sites.
Is it one day or several?
The format depends on the course and the dates are being scheduled. Rather than print a length we cannot yet confirm for every cohort, we will tell you the exact timetable when you enquire, before you pay anything.
I am an internationally educated nurse newly registered in Ontario. Can I attend?
Yes, provided you hold current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario. The prerequisite is registration, not where you trained. Toronto has a large population of internationally educated nurses moving into aesthetics, and the sequence is the same for everyone: registration, competence, then an authorizing mechanism.
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.
Talk to us
Ask before you commit to anything.
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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 . 
