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Covid-19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses
- Source :
- Hastings Center Report, The Hastings Center Report
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- The Covid‐19 pandemic has highlighted many of the difficult ethical issues that health care professionals confront in caring for patients and families. The decisions such workers face on the front lines are fraught with uncertainty for all stakeholders. Our focus is on the implications for nurses, who are the largest global health care workforce but whose perspectives are not always fully considered. This essay discusses three overarching ethical issues that create a myriad of concerns and will likely affect nurses globally in unique ways: the safety of nurses, patients, colleagues, and families; the allocation of scarce resources; and the changing nature of nurses' relationships with patients and families. We urge policy‐makers to ensure that nurses' voices and perspectives are integrated into both local and global decision‐making so as to minimize the structural injustices many nurses have faced to date. Finally, we urge nurses to seek sources of support throughout this pandemic.
- Subjects :
- Safety Management
medicine.medical_specialty
nursing ethics
Health (social science)
Essay
media_common.quotation_subject
Pneumonia, Viral
safety of nurses
education
Face (sociological concept)
Morals
allocation of scarce resources
Health(social science)
Scarcity
Health care rationing
Betacoronavirus
moral distress
Ethics, Nursing
Pandemic
Health care
Global health
medicine
Humans
Sociology
Pandemics
media_common
Essays
Health Care Rationing
crisis standards of care
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Nursing ethics
Health Policy
COVID-19
Covid‐19 pandemic
Public relations
humanities
Philosophy
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
nurse‐patient‐family relationship
Workforce
Coronavirus Infections
Nurse-Patient Relations
business
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00930334
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hastings Center Report
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdc96662f3b77f3d53cc90881edb0638
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1110