Or select from the annotated list of below.
- Patty's Articles (from many places)
- Patty Wooten writes many periodical articles and book chapters. Below are some of her favorites.
- "Humor: An antidote for stress."
- Holistic Nursing Practice. 10 (2), 1996, 49-55.
- "Humor, Laughter, and Play: Maintaining balance in a serious world"
- "Humor, Laughter, and Play: Maintaining balance in a serious world"
- in Holistic Nursing Handbook. (editors) Dossey, B., and L. Keegan. Baltimore MD: Aspen Publishing.
- "You've Got to Be Kidding: Humor skills for surviving managed care."
- "You've Got to Be Kidding: Humor skills for surviving managed care."
- Dermatology Nursing. 1997, 9(6), pp 423-429.
- "Laughter as therapy for patient and caregiver"
- "Laughter as therapy for patient and caregiver"
- in Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Guidelines to Success. (editors) Hodgkin, J., G. Connors, and C. Bell. Philadelphia PA: J.B. Lippincott Co.
- "Patty Wooten -- Nurse Healer"
- "Patty Wooten -- Nurse Healer"
- in Profiles of Nurse Healers. (editors) Keegan, Lynn, & Barbara Montgomery Dossey. (1997, Delmar Publishers)
- Patty's 'Jest for the Health of It!' series (from JNJ)
- When the Journal of Nursing Jocularity was being published (1991-1998), Patty Wooten wrote a regular feature called "Jest for the Health of It!" which offered articles about the use of therapeutic humor and published interviews with experts in the field of psychoneuroimmunology. All of her columns are re-published here.
- Introduction:
- Overview of health benefits of humor.
- How to Improve Patient Smileage:
- Tips for using humor with patients.
- Physiological Effects of Laughter:
- Research on Pyschoneuroimmunology.
- Creating a Comedy Cart:
- What it is and how one hospital implemented it.
- An Interview with Tom Jackson:
- How one nurse cartoonist captures the funny side of the hospital experience.
- Does a Humor Workshop Affect Nurse Burnout?:
- Patty's research.
- Send in the Clowns! Part 1:
- The history of Caring Clowns.
- Send in the Clowns! Part 2:
- Activities and routines.
- Board Certified Therapeutic Humorist?:
- All about AATH.
- Physician, Tickle Thy Comrade:
- Four doctors creating humor.
- Making Humor Work:
- Results of the earlier humor study.
- Keep 'Em in Stitches:
- Robin Walters and her clown program.
- Interview with William Fry, Jr., MD:
- "The grandaddy of laughter research."
- Interview with Annete Goodheart, PhD:
- The "Laughter Therapist" looks at PNI.
- Interview with Vera Robinson, EdD, RN:
- A pioneer in the field of humor and nursing.
- An Interview with Sandy Ritz:
- Discussion of her doctoral dissertation on surviviors of disaster and humor.
- Finding Comedy in Chaos:
- Real life use of therapeutic humor at the AATH conference.
- Humor Cart for Cancer Patients:
- An interview with Terry Bennett.
- Gilda's Club:
- An interview with Joanna Bull, founder.
- An Interview with Paul McGhee:
- Discussion of his research and the Humor Movement.
- An Interview with Bob Diskin of Too Live Nurse:
- The history of the musical group and their ACLS review tape.
- Humor Therapy Group:
- An interview with Pamela Minden, MSN.
- An Interview with Don Marquis:
- Retired Hospital Administrator and cartoonist.
- Clowning Around:
- A hospital with a "Clown Care Unit" and training program for those interested.
- An Interview with the Nursing Notes:
- "Health and Humor Through Harmony" with this nursing barbershop quartet.
- Psychoneuroimmunology of Laughter:
- An interview with Lee Berk, Dr.PH.
- Interview with Cancer Survivor Christine Clifford
- Cancer survivor and entrepreneur.
- Hospital Clown Newsletter: Interview with Shobi Dobi
- The editor of Hospital Clown Newsletter.
- The Get Well Book: Interview with John McPherson
- Syndicated cartoonist.
- Interview with Humor Therapist Judy Goldblum-Carleton
- Full time humor therapist.
Besides writing this column for them, Patty was also a contributing editor for the Journal of Nursing Jocularity, which ceased publication upon the death of its publisher, Doug Fletcher, in 1998. [No JNJ office or website remains as of 2001.]
