Body Piercing: Professional Principles and Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781097968497)

Designed for those who wish to enter into professional practice, not the weekend warrior! Contains a lot of technical information that it essential to keeping you safe and legal professional in this field. Written in easy to understand and an applied manner, by one of the UK's most qualified body piercer "Nicky Pearce". Nicky began his love and practice of professional body piercing after completing his training with CAFLON piercing guns during his training in Beauty & Holistic Therapy. Piercing guns were only ever designed to pierce ears so Nicky had to find another way to do all the body piercings he was being asked to do. Since qualifying in 1995 Nicky has completed advanced training in the hard sciences and has degrees in health and teaching qualifications. This has helped him develop one of the best, most comprehensive piercing courses in the UK. The course is summed up in this textbook which will prepare any potential body piercer academically and make then ready for clinical training. Full of photos and self-directed learning tasks to help consolidate academic knowledge into understanding and clinical application. An exciting and essential piece of kit for any potential body piercer, whether new or old to this profession there's something for everyone.SUBJECTS COVERED: - Health, safety, hygiene, sterilization, infection control, clinical waste, legislation & licensing, ethics, law, consent, anatomy, physiology, dermatology, skin and wound healing, first aid, local anesthetics and pharmacology affecting the skin, tools, equipment, and materia medica, marking, placement, consultation, jewellery, sizes, gauges, healing times, materials science, nickel directive and allergies, anaphylaxis, blade v canula piercing techniques and more.

Author: Nicky Pearce
ISBN-10: 1097968499
ISBN-13: 9781097968497
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2019
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d