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An aesthetician or cosmetology license does not authorize firing a cosmetic laser in Arizona. That takes a separate laser technician certificate from the Department of Health Services, and the supervision required depends on what the laser is doing: indirect supervision for hair removal, direct supervision for everything else. Direct means a licensed practitioner is inside the building. Indirect means reachable by phone.
A.R.S. section 32-516 lets an aesthetician or cosmetologist use a laser or intense pulsed light device only once certified as a laser technician by the Department of Health Services. The department's own credential chart is blunt about it: aesthetician or cosmetologist, no; certified laser technician, yes.
A.R.S. section 32-3233(H) then splits the supervision. Hair removal runs under indirect supervision of a health professional whose scope permits it. Anything cosmetic other than hair removal requires direct supervision. The difference is physical: direct means the practitioner is present inside the facility, indirect means easily accessible by telecommunication.
The Arizona Board of Nursing's advisory opinion on medical aesthetic procedures is that before any Level II or Level III treatment an initial face-to-face examination should be performed by a qualified licensed practitioner, and that telemedicine may be used for it. Licensed practical nurses must have onsite supervision by a specifically trained registered nurse or licensed practitioner.
There is no med spa facility license in Arizona, so the credential to check belongs to the person holding the device rather than to the building. Laser technicians are certified by the Department of Health Services. Injectors are nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants or physicians, verifiable through the Board of Nursing or the Medical Board.
Ask which treatment you are actually having before you ask who is doing it, because in Arizona the answer to the first question decides the supervision level required for the second. Hair removal and everything else are governed differently.
Not on an aesthetics license alone. A.R.S. section 32-516 requires a separate laser technician certificate from the Department of Health Services, and the department's credential chart records aesthetician or cosmetologist as no, certified laser technician as yes.
It depends on the treatment. A.R.S. section 32-3233(H) allows hair removal under indirect supervision of a health professional whose scope permits it, and requires direct supervision for cosmetic uses other than hair removal.
Direct means the licensed practitioner is present inside the facility while the device is used. Indirect means responsible supervision and control by a practitioner who is easily accessible by telecommunication.
A nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant or physician, and the Board of Nursing's advisory opinion is that an initial face-to-face examination should be performed by a qualified licensed practitioner before any Level II or Level III treatment. Telemedicine may be used for that examination.
No. There is no med spa facility license, so the credential to check belongs to the individual performing the treatment rather than to the business.