A Therapeutic Smile: Humor

Öz

Humor is trying to see the funny and entertaining side of the events. Humor helps individuals to think from a different perspective by changing their cognitive levels. It provides a positive perspective even if a sense of humor is encountered. Humor can be considered as an energy that explains and connects the body and spirit. The literature reveals the existence of a small amount of humor use since the early years of nursing.. With the developing time, the roles of nurses also change, and humor style and practices have started to be used in treatmentand care. There are studies showing that humor has effects on health. Humor has many benefits to the individual physically, emotionally, socially and cognitively. Humor can take different forms such as funny cartoons, stories, funny videos, jokes made by nurses while communicating with patients, and hospital clowns. The use of humor should become widespread in nursing care areas such as distracting attention during interventions on the patient, relieving the patient with high anxiety, or increasing the patient’s adaptation to treatment, diagnosis or environment.. The purpose of this review is to examine the uses of humor in nursing.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Humor
• Patient
• Nursing

İyileştirici Bir Tebessüm: Mizah

Öz

Mizah, olayların komik ve eğlenceli tarafını görmeye çalışmaktır. Mizah, bireylerin bilişsel düzeylerini değiştirerek farklı bir perspektiften düşünmelerine yardımcı olur. Mizah duygusu negatif bir olayla karşılaşılsa bile pozitif bakış açısı geliştirmeyi sağlar. Mizah beden ile ruhu kapsayan ve birbirine bağlayan bir enerji olarak değerlendirilebilir. Literatür, hemşireliğin ilk yıllarından itibaren az da olsa mizah kullanımının varlığını ortaya koymaktadır. Gelişen zamanla beraber hemşirelerin rolleri de değişmekte, mizah stili ve uygulamaları da tedavi ve bakımda kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Mizahın sağlık üzerinde etkileri olduğuna dair çalışmalar bulunmaktadır. Mizahın bireye fiziksel, duygusal, sosyal ve bilişsel olarak birçok yararı vardır. Hastaların stres ve anksiyetesini azaltmak, baş etme mekanizmalarını daha iyi kullanmalarını sağlamak ve pozitif etkileşimlerini arttırmak amacıyla yapılan espri ve şakaları içermektedir. Mizah eğlenceli karikatürler, hikayeler, komik videolar, hemşirelerin hastalarla iletişim kurarken yaptığı şakalar ve hastane palyaçoları gibi farklı şekillerde olabilmektedir. Hastaya yapılacak girişimler sırasında dikkatini başka yöne çekmek, anksiyetesi yüksek hastayı rahatlatmak ya da hastanın tedaviye, tanıya veya ortama uyumunu arttırmak gibi hemşirelik bakımı alanlarında mizah kullanımı yaygınlaşmalıdır. Bu derlemenin amacı mizahın hemşirelik alanında kullanım amaçlarını incelemektir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Mizah
• Hasta
• Hemşirelik

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