Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care - Integrative care in Palliative Care. By Madeleine Kerkhof
Explore the world of aromacare with our comprehensive book tailored for healthcare professionals, including nurses, physicians, aromatherapists, massage therapists, and herbalists. Delve into the therapeutic potential of 30 essential oils, carefully selected base oils, and other substances, offering a well-founded approach to end-of-life care.
Check the other English books available by Madeline Kerkhof.
Author: Madeleine Kerkhof - Knapp Hayes
Publisher: Knowledge Institute for Complementary Nursing - Kicozo
Copyright: 2015. Hardcover. Pages: 412
This book is written for professionals in palliative and terminal care.
Nurses, physicians and other palliative care workers, aromatherapists, massage therapists and herbalists alike will find a wealth of well founded information on aromacare and the way some 30 essential oils and a small but well chosen range of base oils and other base substances can be used in end of life care.
you will find a full chapter on simple but wholesome massage techniques and a chapter on aquacare, which allows you to offer patients the great benefits of warm compresses, washings, affusions and baths. Also a short chapter on possible implementation routes is incorporated.
All other chapters will offer you comprehensive information on symptoms in palliative stages, such as pain, dyspnoea, nausea, itch, wound and mouth care, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness and spiritual issues. You will find background information on these symptoms and how complementary nursing care can be of enormous value to the quality of life and dying.
I am honoured to share my passion, expertise, skills and recipes with you to make aromacare and complementary interventions in palliative care as accessible as possible. I sincerely hope that you, with the assistance of this book may help to spread professional and well founded complementary nursing care across the globe to enhance wellbeing of patients and their loved ones in the last stages of life.
-Madeleine.
Learning from experts in the field you wish to excel is very important, but what is even more important is choosing who to learn from. With an oversaturation of self-proclaimed "experts" and "leaders" in every field, sifting through to find a genuine professional can be pretty hard sometimes, especially in a field like aromatherapy where the facts can be muddled with too many emotional and personal stances for every issue discussed.
Madeleine Kerkhof was one such name, and I had the pleasure of attending one of her online masterclasses on using CO2 extracts in aromatherapy. I fell in love with her approach, and she opened my eyes to an area of aromatherapy practice I was unfamiliar with. She is a lovely, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is kind Dutch woman but pairs it with an enormous capacity for empathy and compassion that shines through in her teaching style and approach to always making her clients and patients be the centre of and the purpose of her work.
I received a shipment of her three English-written books this week. These books are considered industry gold standards in clinical aromatherapy. She has poured her years of knowledge and experience into each one, with a slight emphasis on a different aspect of clinical care and aromatherapy integration in each book. Her detailed description of each oil to choose and the method utilised is a masterclass in clinical care and management. Her inclusion of professional advice and recommendations from practitioners worldwide adds another dimension to each book, where you see how aromatherapy practice can be adapted to each culture and situation to bring out the best in each treatment and product.
Even if you are not a clinical aromatherapist, I highly recommend you follow her teachings and attend her classes (she posts her schedule online). The knowledge gained from the settings and methods used can be easily applied and adapted to whatever field you choose to practise your aromatherapy in.
I am pleased to offer a very limited number of her three books in my store in the coming few weeks. They will be shipped directly from the UK, so this is an excellent opportunity to get your hands on this book with reduced postage fees and within a few days of ordering it, no more having to wait for weeks for this treat!
Check out the limited number of books available.
Book 1:
Complementary Nursing in end-of-life care, Integrative Care in Palliative Care
Book 2:
Clinical AromaCare, Aromatherapy in Healthcare & Practice
Book 3:
CO2 Extracts in Aromatherapy. 50 + Extracts for Clinical Applications
