Effectiveness Of Aromatherapy Within Palliative Care Patients

Aromatherapy is a gift form mother nature to nurture, comfort our emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing. History Rich in history, aromatic plant materials were used in ritual and herbal medicine throughout ancient cultures • Primitive humans used aromas for ritual • Egyptians used aromatic resins for medical, ritual and embalming • Writings from Hippocrates and Discorides indicate Aromatherapy is an extension of Greek herbal medicine. Anthropologists speculate that primitive burning

This essay will examine the ethical decision making model by Kerridge et al (2005) in relation to a palliative care of a client with liver cancer. In this particular situation Mr. Hopkins has had surgery and it failed to remove the cancer in his liver. He completed his radiotherapy and was returned home. He is in pain and asking to the district nurse to end his life. This situation creates an ethical dilemma to the district nurse. Nursing practice is complex sometimes nurses have to undergo certain

The results showed that patients aged 65 years or over had a higher mean systolic and lower mean diastolic blood pressure (p < 0.001) in the office than those aged less than 65 years. Office mean arterial blood pressures were also higher (p < 0.001) in the older patients. For mean ambulatory blood pressure, older patients had higher mean ambulatory systolic blood pressures than the younger age group, but there were no differences

For most people the onset of Alzheimers disease is gradual and the progression slow and regular. Symptoms will gradually become more severe over time due to increased damage within brain cells. Vascular Dementia The most common form of Vascular dementia is multi-infarct dementia which follows a series of strokes, or infarcts, when a loss of blood flow damages specific areas of the brain. The stroke may be ‘silent’, being so

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