SAĞLIK SEKTÖRÜ ÇALIŞANLARININ PANDEMİ SÜRECİNDEKİ ÇALIŞMA YÜKÜMLÜLÜKLERİNİN İŞ AHLAKI KAPSAMINDA DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ.

Announced by the World Health Organization, people have faced a new disease called Coronavirus (Covid-19). Due to rising need for healthcare workers and easy contamination of this virus, healthcare professionals (HCP) have been forced to set their priorities. It is a fact that HCPs have responsibilities to their patients as well as to their families, friends, and colleagues. From this point of view, it was aimed to find out the binding obligations of HCPs in terms of moral theories. It is seen that there is no study about pandemic and work ethics in Turkish literature. According to utilitarianism view, it has been concluded that keeping work during the pandemic is essential, whereas according to self-centered approach that is ethical egoism view, leaving job can be accepted as moral. According to deontological theories, as duty obligation is important, it was concluded that the ethical behavior is to continue working. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]