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| Reviewed by:
Tom Trimble, RN CEN, an experienced Emergency Nurse, Instructor,
and the Editor & Publisher of this website. The opinions expressed are his own.
Disclosure: Two humor items by Tom
Trimble, from the
ENW! Humor
Page appear in this book by permission without compensation.
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Hospital humor
is a staple in the publishing and entertainment industries. (I grew up reading a
lot of it in the Reader's Digest column "Laughter, the best medicine
One will start with an "uh, huh", "yeah, that's right", move through grins, chuckles, chortles, guffaws, and "I've seen that; --they know what it's like!" Like those sessions in a break room, when only colleagues can hear, we take away the tension and revel in the absurdities and hilarities of the human comedy in which we must always, --or mostly always, be serious.
Ms. Young, not
a nurse but a college librarian, has previously written on nursing humor:
The Best of Nursing Humor, Volume 2: A Collection of Articles, Essays, and Poetry Published in the Nursing Literature
This is not only an obvious gift for oneself, or the nurse in your life, it may just be an enjoyable therapy outlet and good-mood-restorer for those bad days when one's mind is as tired and sore as the back and the feet.
Review: "Bedlam Among the Bedpans, Humor in Nursing "
is a webarticle of Emergency Nursing World !
[http://ENW.org]
prepared by Tom Trimble, RN CEN
©2007, Tom Trimble, RN CEN
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