title: Keeping them in stitches: humor in perioperative education.
abstract: Humor is one of the most effective teaching strategies available to perioperative nurse educators. Humor can be used to teach nursing students, surgical staff, and patients. This article describes the incorporation of humor into perioperative education and presents examples of specific humorous teaching strategies.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program, School of Nursing, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Beitz
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic