Podiatrists,
Hiring a Medical Nail Technician, a medically-trained and state licensed Nail Technician, can enhance your income, relieve you of non-invasive services, and bring in new patients.
Robert Spalding, DPM, treats many patients in his practice who have developed foot problems that likely have been caused by poor infection control in nail salons. Instead of condemning the technicians and industry, however, he began to train and advocate for their performance of good infection control practices. In doing so, he began to see the potential for having trained nail professionals in podiatry offices.
The Medical Nail Technician Program of Medinail Learning Center is the result of this advocacy and trains nail technicians in the skills and information to work effectively in podiatry offices.
Following are some interesting materials to support the hiring of an MNT in a podiatry practice:
Podiatry Today, Why You Should Add A Medical Nail Technician To Your Practice, by Robert Spalding, DPM, VOLUME: 22 PUBLICATION DATE: Aug 01 2009, by Robert Spalding, DPM
http://www.podiatrytoday.com/why-you-should-add-a-medical-nail-technician-to-your-practice
This article discusses the benefits of hiring a Medical Nail Technician to counter the overwhelming amount of routine care of Baby Boomers in practices, to add cosmetic services for their at-risk patients, and to bring cash services into the practice.
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“The following link is to a CDC study that provides support for keeping our patients out of nail salons that hire many nail technicians from the geographic area discussed and may or do not perform perfect infection control,” says Dr. Spalding. “For the safety of your patients, click on this link.”
Source: CDC, http://www.cdc.gov/Features/ChronicHepatitisB/
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If you, a podiatrist, are interested in discussing this program, please look at the PowerPoint presentation above, then call Janet McCormick, 863-635-1224 or 863-273-9134, or Dr. Robert Spalding, 423-756-3668.
Customizable promotional materials such as an example fo a letter to send to your patients, sample ad and press release, post cards, and much more are available to Podiatrists who hire an MNT.