Nikki Brueggemann, RN

Nikki Brueggemann, RN, owns Washington Skin Solutions in Washington, Missouri, and serves as its aesthetic nurse. Her nursing education was at Jewish Hospital College of Nursing, a school now called the Goldfarb School of Nursing, followed by a critical care fellowship at St. John's in St. Louis, the hospital now known as Mercy St. Louis. Her bedside career started in the medical intensive care unit at Mercy St. Louis, where she spent about six years. Next came 11 years in the GI and endoscopy lab at Mercy Washington, handling GI procedures along with pre- and post-operative ambulatory surgery care. She keeps up with medical education, including developments in procedures, treatments, equipment and technology.