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How to Use Nursing Humor to Improve Your Workplace

When nursing humor is part of the workplace culture, healthcare facilities can enjoy tremendous success. As George Burns once said, “Do something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
There a lot of ways to create a positively outrageous work environment—but let’s take a look at humor specifically. There are three primary roles of nursing humor in the healthcare setting that make it an ideal Service Prescription tool.
Psychological
As healthcare professionals become more anxious and their focus becomes narrower, they become less creative and are more easily upset. Stress may not come from the event itself as much as from the nurse’s perception of that event.
Nursing humor provides a perceptual flexibility that can increase one’s sense of control. Learn techniques such as “catastrophizing” the event. It is where one takes the situation at hand and looks for the absurdity by asking, “How could this be worse?” may help the professional put the event into its proper perspective.
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When nursing humor is part of the workplace culture, healthcare facilities can enjoy tremendous success. As George Burns once said, “Do something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

There a lot of ways to create a positively outrageous work environment—but let’s take a look at humor specifically. There are three primary roles of nursing humor in the healthcare setting that make it an ideal Service Prescription tool.

As healthcare professionals become more anxious and their focus becomes narrower, they become less creative and are more easily upset. Stress may not come from the event itself as much as from the nurse’s perception of that event.

Nursing humor provides a perceptual flexibility that can increase one’s sense of control. Learn techniques such as “catastrophizing” the event. It is where one takes the situation at hand and looks for the absurdity by asking, “How could this be worse?” may help the professional put the event into its proper perspective.

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