Responding to patient-initiated humor: Guidelines for practice

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 638-644

  Adamle, Kathleen ^a   Turkoski, Beatrice ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 33845445601     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004045-200611000-00007     Document Type: Review

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