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Noelia Alanis

Professor Dr. Christopher Nelson 

ORGL-3332 BV2

25 June 2019

Case Study -Nail Technician: Noelia

I work as a Nail Technician with a Vietnamese named John. I have worked with him for

approximately four years and I love my job. I have been working for this industry for the past 10

years. I have come to notice some major problems as to my personal experiences and are as

follows: diagnosing and prescribing, ignoring ventilation, ignoring symptoms, no continuing

education.

To become a Nail Technician, it is easy but there are some steps to follow. Fist you must

complete a nail technician program that requires a minimum of 600 hours completed. After you

have completed your hours in the program and prepared for the two exams that are required to

obtain you manicurist license: Written and Practical exam.

As a manicurist it is easy to be mislead by the proper instructions in using products and

general rules for conducting a service in a service. As a professional it is our responsibility to

take good care or our clients nails in both hands and feet. We as professionals and our duty is to

provide the best of our knowledge to each service that we offer. For example, a pedicure, a

manicure, a full set of acrylic nails, shellac nail polish on the natural nail etc.

There are some problems that I have detected along the way, diagnosis and prescribing is

the most important. We are not a doctor and our job are not to deliver a message that is unclear.

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We should never give a client a diagnosis regardless if the circumstances show it to us. We

should never give our clients advice to take medication for their condition or follow a set of rules

that we hove no knowledge of. I have seen in my experience of my past years as being a

manicurist that other fellow manicurist like to diagnose and give advice in what treatment to take

and what not. This is not correct an as professionals should know better not to do so.

A possible solution that I would recommend for this situation is that we should refer them

to visit a doctor and better train our staff and employees to understand that we are not allowed to

give a diagnosis to any clients or try to offer any help by offering them a treatment or a remedy.

Ignoring ventilation is another serious problem that I have detected in my experience. I

must come to realize that most of the nail salons that are open where I have previously worked

for have never changed their ventilation system or modify it to a new. I believe they pass a

regulation test according to city ordinances and years later they stop functioning and they do

nothing to fix the problem. We as manicurists should always care for out safety and health first.

A solution that I would offer for this problem is that ventilation should be post

importantly addressed and should be replaced every 2 years as we renew of license. It should

become mandatory since it does affect our health and the clients s health in the long run.

Ignoring symptoms is in addition another health-related issue that I have noticed that

manicurists do not respect of disregard. I have seen that a client’s nails are not in good health and

for the money they still manage to ignore symptoms and continue the service. This is to me a

responsibility that the manicurist should not risk and with all their respect deny a service that we

know is later going to affect our client. Many of the manicurists do not like to deny a service to

charge it and that is the problem that we are now facing with rookie nail technicians.

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A solution that I would recommend for this situation is that clients are completely denied

the service if their nails are not capable of handling another service. I would recommend giving a

full training to staff before initiating the job site to be able to care and have knowledge to use a

180-grit buffer on the client’s natural nail to be able to protect it from future damage.

Finally, the problem that I have detected with manicurists is that they pass on a

knowledge that is not up to date. Manicurists should take a continuing education course every

two years before renewing their license so that they are up to date with new laws that are being

modified to protect ourselves and our clients.

The solution that I would present to this problem would be to make the manicurist take an

in class course every year for personal growth and future reference. We are now taking an online

course and hands on would best fit our staff to be fully capable and trained to train other staff

manicurists.

The best solution that I would recommend for this is to hire expertise for colleges.

Teachers need to be capable and knowledge and experienced nail technicians to fully understand

how the actual job really works in the outside world. I would recommend asking for a previous

job employer and ask questions about the teacher to be able to reassure that she is capable of

teaching and demonstrating tutorials of any given scenario.

My fiercest critic would be the Nail Technicians of the future and future beauty

consultants. I would be making this career harder and stricter to comprehend. I would understand

that students would like to have a simple education and make it easier on them. I would say not a

single break should be given. I would make education tougher since this is not as simple as it

may seem. I would not take this career as an exception because this is my field. I would be

making this harder on myself as well but to my understanding this is to better be able to

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communicate rightful knowledge and be able to for services that our clients deserve to have in

the best possible way.

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