Presentation
Humour as a Nursing Intervention
SessionNursing Section Meeting
DescriptionTherapeutic humour is defined to be any intervention that promotes health and wellness by stimulating a playful discovery, expression or appreciation of the absurdity or incongruity of life's situations. This intervention may enhance health or be used as a complementary treatment of illness to facilitate healing or coping, whether physical, emotional, cognitive, social or psychological
Humour can be used in all kinds of ways or situations, to relativize, make tense situations less tense or it can be used to make life more pleasant. If a nurse uses humour as an intervention in complimentary care, certain patients may complain less. This presentation will look at Humour as a nursing intervention. The listener will be taken on a journey and examples of what humour is and how humour can be used in different situations.
At the end of the presentation the listener will be able to see that humour can be a tool to be used as a nursing intervention, but the listener will have to make up his or her mind and decide if he or she can use it.
Key words: humour, nursing intervention, cheerfulness, expressions.
Humour can be used in all kinds of ways or situations, to relativize, make tense situations less tense or it can be used to make life more pleasant. If a nurse uses humour as an intervention in complimentary care, certain patients may complain less. This presentation will look at Humour as a nursing intervention. The listener will be taken on a journey and examples of what humour is and how humour can be used in different situations.
At the end of the presentation the listener will be able to see that humour can be a tool to be used as a nursing intervention, but the listener will have to make up his or her mind and decide if he or she can use it.
Key words: humour, nursing intervention, cheerfulness, expressions.
Event Type
Ancillary Meeting
TimeTuesday, October 15th5:30pm - 6:00pm PDT
LocationMission Beach C
Clinical Practice
Bedside Nursing
Informatics
Introductory