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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Psychology
  • Health and Wellness

Background:

  • Humor serves as a beneficial coping strategy during challenging health experiences.
  • Perioperative nurses play a key role in patient assessment and intervention.
  • Self-care is crucial for healthcare professionals' well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight humor as a valuable coping tool for patients.
  • To explore the role of perioperative nurses in implementing humor-based interventions.
  • To examine nurses' self-care practices and the use of humor for healing.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review on humor, coping, and nursing self-care.
  • Exploration of perioperative nursing roles in patient support.
  • Discussion of self-resource potential through humor.

Main Results:

  • Humor can effectively mitigate stress, illness, and pain.
  • Perioperative nurses are well-positioned to integrate humor into patient care.
  • Nurses can leverage humor for their own self-care and healing.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating humor into perioperative nursing practice enhances patient coping.
  • Nurses should be encouraged to use humor as a self-care strategy.
  • Humor is a vital, yet often underutilized, therapeutic tool in healthcare.