Aromatherapy for PONV

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Essential Oils & PONV: Quiz Your Knowledge

Welcome to the Aromatherapy for PONV quiz! This quiz is designed to test your understanding of essential oils and their application in managing postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Whether you're a healthcare professional or just curious about aromatherapy, this quiz will challenge your knowledge and enhance your learning experience.

12 insightful questions
Multiple choice format
Increase your understanding of safe practices

12 Questions3 MinutesCreated by AromaticWave754

By which routes can essential oils be absorbed in the body?

Oral

Skin and mucous membranes

Inhalation

All of the above

Select the statement that is the most accurate:

When inhaled, essential oils are slow to reach the central nervous system.

Essential oils are rapidly transported when inhaled, reaching the central nervous system via the olfactory tract.

The olfactory tract plays little, if any role in transporting essential oils.

Essential oils can only be absorbed via the lungs.

When essential oils are used with patients in the clinical setting, their level of consciousness and physical impairments often require safety measures such as:

Using essential oils only with massage.

Using essential oils on a cotton ball placed on their pillow.

Using essential oils in a delivery device designed to prevent accidental skin or eye contact.

Do not administer aromatherapy at all until the patient is discharged home.

Which statement reflects “best practice” when using aromatherapy in the clinical setting?

Use the highest maximum ambient concentration possible, such as with a electric whole room diffuser.

Use the lowest ambient concentration possible, such as with a personal passive inhalation device.

Allow the patient to select which delivery method works best

None of the above.

What statement is accurate about Scent Bias?

It occurs when someone’s experiences or attitudes influence how they evaluate a smell as positive or negative.

The most powerful emotional associations with smell are made before the age of 10.

Inhaling the smell of an alcohol pads may help relieve nausea, but patients might refuse to try this intervention because they associate the smell with something unpleasant, like IV insertions.

All of the above.

Which statement is incorrect about Conditioned Aversion?

It occurs when the mind develops a strong resistance towards something, such as a taste or smell, after associating it with feeling ill.

This only occurs with smells, never with taste.

It is thought to be a survival mechanism.

When using aromatherapy, to prevent conditioned aversion, it is best to use a blend of essential oils, instead of a single, easily recognizable scent.

True or False? Patients with Environmental Sensitivities can display physical symptoms such as headaches, coughing, rhinitis, and hoarseness when exposed to an environmental trigger.

True

False

Select the best definition of an independent nursing intervention:

An action which can be carried out by a nurse, but requires a physician’s order.

An action which can be initiated by a nurse, falls within the scope of nursing knowledge and skills, and requires no physician’s order.

An action that is initiated by a nurse, but does not fall within the scope of acknowledged nursing practice.

An action a nurse initiates that does not depend upon nursing knowledge or skill.

Which are considered steps the nurse must take when implementing an aromatherapy intervention on a nauseated patient?

Ask if the patient has any history of allergies, reactive airway disease, asthma, environmental sensitivities, and scent intolerance.

Check the patient's chart for any history of allergies, reactive airway disease, asthma, environmental sensitivities, and scent intolerance.

Explain to the patient aromatherapy is the controlled use of inhaled essential oil vapor to provide relief from nausea.

All of the above

Which statement is true about aromatherapy use during pregnancy?

It is safe to ingest any quantity of essential oil while pregnant.

Based on the current available information, the use of all essential oils regardless of history of safety, should be avoided during pregnancy.

No published data implicates commonly used essential oils used for oral consumption as dangerous in any capacity.

The only direct and significant adverse outcomes associated with essential oil use in pregnancy that are identified in available literature, are those from oral ingestion.

When using aromatherapy in children, safety precautions include:

Using dispensing devices that allow low ambient vapor concentration

Careful introduction to the vapor and vigilant monitoring for side effects, such as nasal passage swelling or increased secretion production

Skin preparations containing essential oils should never be placed inside a child’s nostril

All of the Above

In regard to research limitations for studying therapeutic inhaled essential oils, which statement is false?

Conducting a double-blind study on aroma can be quite difficult.

The emotional and contextual components of the sense of smell can enhance the placebo effect in research.

Funding for studies from the corporate sector is readily available.

Many studies that have been done only look at the main constituent and not the complete essential oil.

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