From 12-Hour Shifts to $150K Months

The wake-up call

Faisal spent years grinding 12-hour shifts as a critical-care RN, doing what every nurse is told to do: pick up overtime, pay off the loans, climb the ladder. The pay was fine. The trade-off — time, sanity, control over his own calendar — wasn't.

The first practice he opened, Panacea, was the inflection point. NP-led aesthetics and wellness, built deliberately around protocols that scaled without him. Within 18 months it was profitable. Within three years it was doing $150K months. In June 2025 it sold.

Why he teaches

The system that built Panacea isn't proprietary to Faisal. It's a stack of decisions — entity structure, RN scope-of-practice rules, supplier relationships, protocol design, clinical SOPs, marketing funnels, retention math — and every nurse who's tried to start a practice has hit the same walls.

My Practice Academy is the answer he wishes he'd had: not generic CE, not theoretical fluff, but the actual playbook. Same protocols, same dosing, same compliance frameworks. The difference between teaching what should work and teaching what did.

Credentials

Faisal Darwiche, NP. AANP-board-certified adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner. 27+ years bedside-to-NP. Faculty at the Aesthetic Show (Vegas, June 2026 + 2027). Built and sold Panacea Wellness; co-built Manal's Room with his wife; founder of My Practice Academy.