title: Humor with hospice clients: you're putting me on.
abstract: The changing healthcare environment is challenging home healthcare nurses to rethink what they do and how they do it, and explore innovative approaches to improve client satisfaction. This article describes how the nursing intervention of humor can be implemented by home healthcare and hospice nurses to provide more cost-effective, yet creative, holistic nursing care.
authors.affiliation: CCMH Home Care/Hospice, Atlantic, Iowa.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Schultes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic