This course provides an overview of essential oil therapy and current aromatherapy practices in clinical settings and gives you the skills to bring aromatherapy into your own practice. By the end of the course, you will be able to: a) explain what essential oils are to a patient and how they work; b) assess if an essential oil might be beneficial to a patient, considering patient preference and the research evidence, as well as any safety issues or contraindications; and c) suggest a protocol for use in a clinical setting.
Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils
Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils
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Instructor: Janet Tomaino, DNP
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Describe the current and potential role of aromatherapy in health and healthcare.
Identify safety and ethical issues and discuss their application in practice situations.
Assess, administer, and evaluate the use of essential oils for management of pain, anxiety, nausea, and fatigue.
Discuss logistics of establishing and sustaining a clinical aromatherapy program.
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Reviewed on Nov 7, 2020
This course was well presented by the instructor; it covered all the relevant topics that I believe are vital to understanding Essential oils and the broad field of aromatherapy.
TF
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Reviewed on Sep 23, 2023
The course is a good overview of the beginning of aromatherapy. Good resources for the monographs and basic introduction of the commonly used essential oils.
MC
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Reviewed on Aug 23, 2019
Good course. Difficult to navigate back to review information already presented. It would be ehlpful to have a drop down for Week 1, Week 2 etc
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