AromaCare Nurse™ was founded by former nurse Madeleine Kerkhof in 2021 with a track record of over 25 years in complementary therapies, education and aromatherapy formulation. This is her BIO.

Madeleine Kerkhof, RNret, CAE, INEE, MTE, ACSE.

Madeleine is the founder and owner of AromaCare Nurse™, as well as the founder, chair and principal teacher of Kicozo International, Knowledge Institute for Integrative & Complementary (Nursing) Care

Madeleine is a former RN. As a nurse, she gained a passion for a more holistic approach. 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, 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. Her calling is to help integrate complementary therapies in mainstream health care. She is a frequently asked speaker at conferences for professionals in health care.

Madeleine is the author of two highly acclaimed books: “Complementary Nursing in End of Life Care” (2015),  and “CO2 Extracts in Aromatherapy, 50+ Extracts for Clinical Applications” (2018). In 2020 she published the Dutch book Clinical AromaCare, Aromatherapy for Clinic and Practice (2020).

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 beyond. She was commended by Her Excellency the President of Malta in 2018 for her support to the National Maltese Cancer Fund.
Madeleine was also one of the nominees of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2019) of the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (USA).

Madeleine is a specialist formulator with a keen eye for research and clinical experience based foundations. Her product are tailored to the very vulnareble, easy to use and offering comfort to patients around the world. She and her husband and partner in everything Kees guard Madeleine’s heritage carefully so it will be made availble to them now and in teh future.