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.
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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.
Skills you will gain
- integrative healthcare
- wellbeing
- patient-centered care
- improved symptom management
- evidence-based practice
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
What is Aromatherapy and its Role in Health and Healthcare?
What Do I Need to Know About Safety and Quality?
Application and Delivery Methods
Essential Oils for Managing Pain and Anxiety
Reviews
- 5 stars88.02%
- 4 stars9.85%
- 3 stars1.40%
- 1 star0.70%
TOP REVIEWS FROM AROMATHERAPY: CLINICAL USE OF ESSENTIAL OILS
Excellent course to learn how to help people identify which essential oil to use taking into account study results and safety considerations.
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
Very informative course! Learned alot and the professor is great! It did take alot longer to complete than I thought but still glad I took it!
this course it worth studying contain almost all necessary information needed for aromatherapy treatment and if you prefer convectional medicine instead of allopathic medicine you can go for it .
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