A narrative inquiry: how do nurses respond to patients' use of humour?

Title: A narrative inquiry: how do nurses respond to patients' use of humour?
Creator: Haydon, Gunilla; Van der Riet, Pamela
Relation: Contemporary Nurse Vol. 46, Issue 2, p. 197-205
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/conu.2014.46.2.197
Publisher: eContent Management
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: In today’s healthcare system where technical instruments and test results are used to implement care it is easy to lose the human aspect of nursing. Personal interaction can get lost and nurses sometimes miss humorous attempts made by patients. Humour is a very personal concept, what one person thinks is funny does not necessarily make another person smile, or might even be hurtful. Humour is an important communication tool for patients as it humanises the nurses, creates a bond and opens communication lines. Humour has the potential to change the hospital experience for patients. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of humour in the therapeutic relationship between patient and nurse. Semi-structured interviews were held with four registered nurses and narrative inquiry was used to analyse and present the findings because of its ability to capture human interaction and experience.
Subject: narrative inquiry; humour; nurse; patient; therapeutic relationship
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067694
Identifier: uon:18460
Identifier: ISSN:1037-6178
Language: eng
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