Jacqueline Collins This is Me

Education

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1. 1. www.minoritynurse.com

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   Published on: 4/1/2006   Last Visited: 4/4/2007

   "For every patient I treat, there is time set aside for education, depending on how often they come in," says Jacqueline Collins, BSN, RN, a laser surgery nurse at Washington, D.C.-based Cultura Cosmetic Medical Spa. "All patients ask some questions."
   
   A typical day for Collins, who has been trained to work with 22 different kinds of lasers, includes performing skin rejuvenation procedures, such as complexion blending to treat post-acne scarring and hyperpigmentation, and using intense pulsed light to treat melasma, rosacea, freckles and age spots, not to mention laser hair removal.
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   Collins, who is African American, concurs. "I identify with so many of the patients' problems because I had them," she says.