Nancy Krulikowski

Waterbury , Conn. , Naugatuck resident Nancy Krulikowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, was among eight Greater Waterbury nurses and nursing students honored by the Greater Waterbury Nursing Consortium.The awards were presented at "Laughter with a Lesson," a special event hosted by the Consortium at Naugatuck Valley Community College's Mainstage Theater to celebrate the nursing profession and the joy , and the humor , that's to be found in nursing.

Consortium HonoreesThe Greater Waterbury Nursing Consortium recently honored eight area nurses and nursing students who use positive humor to boost both colleague and patient morale.From left to right: Shelley Guerrera, LPN, of Watertown, Brenda Gugliotti, RN, of Waterbury, Julius Johnson, RN, of Bristol, Sheryl Weber, RN, of Southington, Rosa Cruz-Marcantonio of Farmington, Colleen Ortelle, RN, of Watertown, Nancy Krulikowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, of Naugatuck, and Anne Scott, RN, of Goshen.
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A special award was presented to Krulikowski, who has been a staff nurse at Saint Mary's for 25 years and currently works in the Critical Care/Telemetry units.A graduate of Saint Mary's Hospital School of Nursing, she is currently a graduate student at Western Connecticut State University, where she has been researching the use of therapeutic humor.She recently completed a qualitative study entitled, "The Lived Experience: Critical Care Nurses Use of Humor," for her thesis and presented the results at the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor's International Conference 2005.

Waterbury , Conn. , Naugatuck resident Nancy Krulikowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, was among eight Greater Waterbury nurses and nursing students honored by the Greater Waterbury Nursing Consortium.The awards were presented at ,Laughter with a Lesson,, a special event hosted by the Consortium at Naugatuck Valley Community College,s Mainstage Theater to celebrate the nursing profession and the joy , and the humor , that,s to be found in nursing.

Consortium HonoreesThe Greater Waterbury Nursing Consortium recently honored eight area nurses and nursing students who use positive humor to boost both colleague and patient morale.From left to right: Shelley Guerrera, LPN, of Watertown, Brenda Gugliotti, RN, of Waterbury, Julius Johnson, RN, of Bristol, Sheryl Weber, RN, of Southington, Rosa Cruz-Marcantonio of Farmington, Colleen Ortelle, RN, of Watertown, Nancy Krulikowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, of Naugatuck, and Anne Scott, RN, of Goshen.
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A special award was presented to Krulikowski, who has been a staff nurse at Saint Mary,s for 25 years and currently works in the Critical Care/Telemetry units.A graduate of Saint Mary,s Hospital School of Nursing, she is currently a graduate student at Western Connecticut State University, where she has been researching the use of therapeutic humor.She recently completed a qualitative study entitled, ,The Lived Experience: Critical Care Nurses Use of Humor,, for her thesis and presented the results at the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor,s International Conference 2005.

Nancy Krulikowski of Naugatuck, a staff nurse at Saint Mary's Hospital for 25 years who now works in the critical care/telemetry unit, received a special award for researching the use of therapeutic humor in her graduate studies program at Western Connecticut State University.

Her thesis, a study called "The Lived Experience of Critical Care Nurses' Use of Humor," was presented to the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor International Conference 2005.

She also uses humor to relieve some patients' stress.

"There's so much they have to deal with," Krulikowski said, of patients.

By referring to the wires of an IV as a pile of spaghetti or tangled yarn, medical devices become less scary and something patients can identify with, she said.

Nancy Krulikowski, who is a humorist, RN and APRN at Saint Mary's, and was guest speaker at the event.
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Residents of Waterbury who were honored at Saint Mary's annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon share a laugh with Nancy Krulikowski, APRN and humorist, who was the guest speaker at the event.