title: Use of therapeutic humour by psychiatric nurses.
abstract: Humour is an essential part of our everyday communication. While for the nurse, there are differences between social and clinical environments, humour cannot be turned on or off in either. Consciously attempting to avoid humour leads to stunted, rigid interaction.
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authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dunn
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic