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Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care by Madeleine Kerkhof-Knapp Hayes.
A deeply referenced handbook of aromatic care at the end of life, written for nurses and health professionals and generous to every family caregiver sitting at a bedside.
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About this product
There is an hour near the end of a life when the room grows quiet and care becomes the whole of the work. Madeleine Kerkhof-Knapp Hayes writes for that hour. Her subject is aromacare: holistic care that may touch physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Designated a handbook for nurses and health professionals and recently translated, it has much to offer the serious aromatherapy student, the educator and anyone helping a loved one through the end of life. It is filled with research citations and, more tellingly, with the patients she cared for over her years of practice. They come alive on the page.
Details
- An introduction to essential oils and their chemical families, methods of application, base oils and blending
- Profiles of about 30 essential oils, with guidance on purchasing and storage
- Extended safety information: drug interactions, oils to use only with the utmost caution in pregnancy, oils suited to infants and children by age, and first aid for mishaps
- Gentle massage for family caregivers, with photographs
- Aquacare: washings, compresses, baths, footbaths and affusions, with temperatures given in Celsius
- Scent and ambience, including how even a two-year-old can choose the fragrance they find most relaxing
- Chapters of care for breathing, skin, movement, circulation, digestion, emotion and fatigue, closing with spirituality, dying, parting and mourning
Keep it within reach, mark the pages you return to, and let it steady your hands when they are needed most.
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Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care by Madeleine Kerkhof-Knapp Hayes
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