title: Using humor to reduce stress and improve relationships.
abstract: This article offers a variety of methods for the nurse manager to incorporate humor into the workplace. Humor is defined in the article, and the benefits of humor are described. These benefits include reducing stress and aggression, building relationships, enhancing problem solving, improving negotiating, personal survival, physical healing, and emotional healing. Humor can be used to reduce stress in the nurse manager's personal life as well as in the work environment.
authors.affiliation: Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN 46545-5591, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eshleman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shearer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017008:Negotiating; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D011340:Problem Solving; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic; D017132:Workplace