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Working with patients who have big burns: exploring the perspectives of senior medical staff of different professional groups.

This study aimed to explore the views of senior medical staff on the emotional impact and dilemmas of working with patients who have big burns. Six members of medical staff from different professional groups were interviewed: two consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeons, two consultant anesthetists, and two senior physiotherapists. Their interviews were analyzed using a qualitative methodology, namely interpretative phenomenological analysis. The emerging patterns were discussed in the light of systemic and social constructionist theory. The emerging themes revolved around three main areas. The participants shared their ideas on the tensions around decision-making and the different positions they take when they have to make life-or-death decisions or when they have to live with the consequences of these decisions taken by others. They brought to the discussion differing ideas about what they consider as the right emotional distance and emotional talk with patients. Finally, they reflected on intragroup ways of support generated by their burns team and they highlight the use of humor and the use informal networks as ways of support.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1997

Humor therapy in home care.

Common sense tells everyone that laughter is good for the body. But what can professional caregivers do to bring laughter into the workplace and into patients' homes.

Home Care Services↗
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Cartoon humor in nursing education.

The use of cartoons and humor in nursing education has had a positive effect on learning: Humor promotes group unity, relieves tension, and stimulates creative thinking. Cartoons have been used to help nursing students identify and examine stereotypes, an important part of their education, because they must provide care to many people of different ages and cultural backgrounds.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1985

Influence of contextual complexity on the processing of cartoons by patients with unilateral lesions.

It was examined whether the performance of right hemisphere patients in the comprehension of cartoons is predominantly influenced by disturbed processing of affective material or by cognitive deficits. Cartoons differing in their cognitive demand were presented to groups of right hemisphere patients, aphasics and normal controls. Subjects were required to identify the cartoon in a multiple choice set of four pictures. Additionally, subjects were asked to rate the funniness on a three-point scale. The results indicate that the impairment of right hemisphere patients is caused by a combination of visuo-perceptive and cognitive deficits rather than by an inability to identify the affective component of cartoons.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Interactions between nurses and men admitted with chest pain.

UNLABELLED: This paper reports on an analysis of the interactions that occurred between nurses and men admitted with acute chest pain. BACKGROUND AND AIM: Men admitted to hospital after experiencing chest pain were the focus of a study into men's transition from being well men to ill men. During the study it became apparent that nurses adopted strategies to manage the men through this early acute phase of their illness. METHODS: Data were collected through fieldwork using participant observation on an acute medical admissions ward and an intensive care unit with dedicated coronary care beds. Twenty-five men were included in the study with 10 followed through to discharge. An interpretive grounded theory was used to direct the data collection and analysis. RESULTS: The men and nurses were seen to be part of a complex interplay, but three main types of interaction were identified: supportive, controlling and educative/informative. Discussions with the men suggests a key factor in the men's experiences was the interactions they had with the nursing and medical staff. CONCLUSIONS: Attention should be given to nurses' awareness of men's coping strategies when faced with sudden health change and how their actions impact on their recovery.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1992

Client-public health nurse relationships in child health care: a grounded theory study.

Client-public health nurse relationships are considered to be important in nursing literature. However, little research in nursing has touched this area. The purpose of this paper is to describe a study of the patterns of interaction in terms of relationships between clients (mother and child under 1 year of age) and public health nurses in child health care at Finnish health centres. The qualitative data were collected by observing client-public health nurse interactions during visits. In total, 1554 interactions were observed over 2 years from 20 visits to child health centres. The grounded theory method was used in this study. Various relationships were identified between child and mother, child and public health nurse and mother and public health nurse. The relationship between child and mother during the visit was called a tender, protective and persuasive relationship. The relationship between child and public health nurse was called a persuasive and entertainment relationship. The main relationship between mother and public health nurse was called relationship supporting self-confidence. Suggestions for nursing practice and further research are made.

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PubMed2006

Brain activation during sight gags and language-dependent humor.

Humor is a hallmark of human discourse. People use it to relieve stress and to facilitate social bonding, as well as for pure enjoyment in the absence of any apparent adaptive value. Although recent studies have revealed that humor acts as an intrinsic reward, which explains why people actively seek to experience and create humor, few have addressed the cognitive aspects of humor. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to differentiate brain activity induced by the hedonic similarities and cognitive differences inherent in 2 kinds of humor: visual humor (sight gags) and language-based humor. Our findings indicate that the brain networks recruited during a humorous experience differ according to the type of humor being processed, with high-level visual areas activated during visual humor and classic language areas activated during language-dependent humor. Our results additionally highlight a common network activated by both types of humor that includes the amygdalar and midbrain regions, which presumably reflect the euphoric component of humor. Furthermore, we found that humor activates anterior cingulate cortex and frontoinsular cortex, 2 regions in the brain that are known to have phylogenetically recent neuronal circuitry. These results suggest that humor may have coevolved with another cognitive specialization of the great apes and humans: the ability to navigate through a shifting and complex social space.

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