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Currently this course is being taught (or has
been taught) to nurses and other health
professionals in twenty five States from Alaska to
Florida to Maine. Please see locations
for current schedule. If there is no course
in your area and you are interested to coordinate
one, please click
here.
This is an in-depth course and considerable
student input is required. Students have to
complete 33 case-studies and a small study on 8-12
subjects using a set methodology. Students present
their findings to an external assessor at the
certification exam. The rationale behind this is to
show that clinical aromatherapy is effective, safe
and cost-effective. As a direct result of this
assessment process, several universities are now
including clinical aromatherapy and the 'm'
technique® as electives, and hospitals are
looking to include aromatherapy as part of their
healthcare.
The choice of study is decided with the help of
the instructor during tutorials in Modules 4 and 5.
During the first tutorial, the instructor advises
the student on suitable studies, patient
population, study design, randomization, selection
of oil/s and method of application. During the
second tutorial, progress is discussed. These
studies will be assessed for publication and it is
hoped that over the next few years they will be
published in main-stream nursing and other
peer-reviewed journals. Some students, such as
Karobi Sachs of Massachusetts, have gone on to win
the 1999 Massachusetts Nursing Award of Excellence.
Her study was entitled Aromatherapy can empower
women living in a women's refuge.
33 clinical case-studies are carried out on 33
single essential oils and the results are discussed
in class. (This is quite different from all other
aromatherapy trainings which emphasize blends.) The
results of literally thousands of single essential
oil case-studies are currently being prepared to be
entered into a data-base. It is hoped that these
studies will provide much needed evidence of the
efficacy of essential oils on humans, used either
topically and inhaled. It is also planned that the
database will be be available through the Internet.
We are currently looking for funding.
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