Humor as an Alternative Therapy

Abstract

Nurses are the immediate health care providers to the patients. They are associated with the words like love and care. There are various strategies to build friendly relation with the patients and nurses have to acquire the approaches that create the happiness and improves the quality of life. It is a good approach to conduct different workshops for the nursing staff in which they are taught about the humor and its importance in improving the patient's quality of life. As with the advancement of other therapies, nurses are also adapting different strategies to develop good relations with the patients in which humor is one of the strategy that can create the hope of life or happiness for few moments.

Humor as an Alternative Therapy

Complementary Alternative Medicine

Medical sciences has proved that the correct diagnosis and correct initiation of treatment therapies to the patients having acute diseases, but there is still the lacking for the proper treatment of the patients having chronic diseases. The conditions include the condition of diabetes, cancers, dementia, chronic pain etc. These patients suffer extreme depression due to the long lasting illness and suffering of pain or stressed condition. They feel like everything has been finished, there is no hope of life in front of them. This condition leads to the further deterioration of their disease state. In this way it takes a long time to recover than usual. Because we know that there is a strong connection between the mind and body.

In order to manage those chronic conditions, the scientists and researchers of recent era are focusing on the Complementary Alternative Medicines along with the conventional medicines (Snyder & Lindquist, 2010). American Cancer Society defines CAM as supporting methodology utilized to assist the evidence-based treatment. Complementary therapies cannot replace the appropriate treatment strategy and are ...