MADELEINE KERKHOF

DAY 2

17/2/24

Madeleine is a former RN. As a nurse, she gained a passion for a more holistic approach to patient care. This lead to her studies into complementary therapies in addition to existing care. After leaving the hospital Madeleine had a private practice for many years, and gradually started training nurses and health care professionals in complementary nursing care techniques as well.

Now, well over 25 years later, she is a highly respected expert and world renowned educator in Clinical Aromatherapy (AromaCare), AquaCare and other complementary therapies, specialised in the care for the frailest patients and elderly, in oncology, in palliative and end of life care.

Madeleine is accredited by the Board of Nursing’s Quality Registry, and a member and advisor to the Dutch Nurses Society, as well as being a member of the European Association for Palliative Care, the American Holistic Nurse Association, AIA – for which she is on the Education Committee, NAHA, and other professional organisations. Madeleine is also a Fellow of ICAN.

She feels very passionate about adding quality of life and dying to patients and helps health care professionals to achieve that by offering them safe and science based tools to add to their tool kit with the help of natural aromatics, touch, relaxation and AquaCare techniques for optimum comfort and care.

She is also the chair of De Levensboom Foundation which is a registered charity in palliative care that supports vulnerable patients by providing nurses, hospitals, aged care facilities and hospices in several ways. Her work and generosity is highly valued and regarded in health care throughout the Netherlands and around the world.

Madeleine is the author of highly acclaimed books: Clinical Aromacare, Aromatherapy in Health Care & Practice, was published 2023; Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care (2015); CO2 Extracts in Aromatherapy, 50+ Extracts for Clinical Applications (2018). She is also the author of many papers and the Dutch National Guidelines on Aromacare and Aquacare in Palliative and Cancer care (2023).

Madeleine teaches in Kicozo’s campus in The Netherlands where she heads a team of tutors, and travels the world to train nurses and health care professionals in clinical aromatherapy (AromaCare), and other clinical complementary (nursing) techniques to enhance quality of life for patients and their loved ones.

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