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Aromatherapy Patches May Help Reduce Nurses’ Stress, Exhaustion

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A new pilot study suggests that aromatherapy patches may help reduce nurses’ on-the-job feelings of stress, anxiety, exhaustion and overwhelm. “If we can improve our nurses’ emotional reserves and give them more resiliency by using aromatherapy — give them a place to step back, to do some mindfulness — we’re doing a good thing at the other end of it by improving patient care,” said Marian Reven, a Ph.D.

student in the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Nursing. In an 8-week study, Reven and her colleagues — WVU researchers Janelle Humphrey-Rowan, D.N., and Nina Moore, R.N. — provided aromatherapy patches to 19 nurses who worked at the Infusion Center at the WVU Cancer Institute.

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