The medical profession is both very physically and emotionally stressful. Nurses are like police officers – they see things that most people in everyday life will never deal with. Therefore, they develop their own kind of humor to cope with situations. This nursing humor is often only understood by members of this health profession.

A lot of the jokes that nurses find amusing are about interchanges between the nurses and patients or doctors. In many of these jokes the nurse is not presented in a very likable way, where in reality most nurses are very patient, understanding and professional people. Nurses must be stoic in their work but with these jokes they can let their personalities out. To express these jokes allows them to release some pressure and better deal with non-cooperating patients and stressful situations better.

Medical humor and nurse jokes are sometimes referring to specific medical terms and defining them with funny meanings. They may take a common term and apply a comical meaning to it. The problem is that this is usually a little bit more than most non-medical people find as funny and so is played down a bit as to not offend anyone. For instance a word such as barium would be defined as an undertaker – not so funny for most people.

Many websites about nursing have forum threads that are focused on nursing humor, or the funny occurrences of the life of a nurse. This is a place to share jokes and stories that are simply too funny to keep to oneself. Often these jokes will be shared also through emails or even through nursing station handouts. There are even a few websites that are dedicated solely to this nursing humor, as well as others that are dedicated to medical humor in general.

Recent policy issues and undesired changes are sometimes involved in nursing humor. These issues can directly relate to nursing administration concerns, but can also involve government-sponsored health insurance issues. These topics can be easily discussed with nurses, as well as those not in the medical field. These jokes are the ones nurses share with family and friends.

You are sure to have heard nursing humor if you know any nurses or if you are married to one. There are many websites available on the internet that can offer explanations for the dry and satirical descriptions of nurses coping skills. It may help in understanding to look at these jokes from the nurses’ point of view.

- Bruno Auger

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