title: Healing with humor.
abstract: A sense of humor can be a positive coping tool in times of stress, illness, and pain. Perioperative nurses are in the unique position to assess the patient's ability to cope and to suggest and model a repertoire of coping strategies that use humor. This article also explores self-care knowledge and ways that nurses can tap into their own resource potential for healing through humor.
authors.affiliation: Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, NJ 08244, USA.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sherman
mesh_terms: D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic