02/19/2026
In 2002 Graduated Duquesne with my RN/BSN
From 2002-2008 I worked at Children’s (ortho/neuro/trauma and the recovery room). Floor nursing is, in fact, the HARDEST nursing job that exists, and I felt totally unsettled, so I changed directions COMPLETELY and quit nursing all together and got my real estate license 🤯 Spoiler alert…that was a bust. Back to nursing I went👩⚕️
Pregnant with my daughter, I started agency nursing. After several assignments, I finally settled for a long term position at The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. It was here, that I made the decision to go back to school and get my NP.
3.5 years of working nights at TCI, daylight clinical and classes, trying to be the best mom for my daughter (and going through a divorce at the same time), just about did me in! It was the hardest season of my nursing journey yet…. (or so I thought) 🙃
After NP graduation, I spent 6 years in plastic surgery. Assisting in the OR at 4 different hospitals, seeing patients in 3 different offices, rounding in a handful of nursing homes doing wound care AND injecting in spas and salons in PA, WV and OH… this job gave new meaning to the term “burn out.”
Are you noticing a pattern here with nursing? It’s truly one of the hardest jobs out there! In 2018 I said my good byes to my plastic surgery position ✌️
I continued wound care, but wanted to keep my foot in the door with aesthetics. I started injecting part time for a small med spa called “The Sewickley Med Spa,” which would later become my brick and mortar location for Nu Glow 💗
In 2019, with whispers of a novel “corona virus” in the air, I decided this would be the perfect time to start my own traveling injection practice. GREAT idea, Dee 🤦♀️🙄
So I started an LLC “Nu Glow Aesthetics” while working full time in wound care. After 3 yrs of full time wound care and part time aesthetics, I had a patient list robust enough to quit wound care all together.
Another prayer and a leap into practicing full time for my own small business with no safety net… but God had me. He always does ♥️
And the rest, as they say, is history.
It was HARD, it was PAINFUL, but it was SO WORTH IT 💝
