Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care

This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being.
Nurses are essential front-line clinicians across all health care settings and in every nation. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARs-CoV-2 virus has affected children, adults, and communities within and across all societies. Nurses, too, have contracted the virus and died from the disease. They have also seen their colleagues, family members, and friends hospitalized or in intensive care units struggling to survive. Nursing’s professionalism and disciplinary resolve to care for patients and families amidst confusion, misinformation, and shifting guidelines has been called “heroic” by the public.

How much risk should nurses be expected to accept during a pandemic? How do nurses help patients and families find comfort and dignity at the end-of-life? How do we help nurses who are suffering from moral distress and mental health concerns from what they have seen, been asked to do, or are unable to provide? And, how does society move forward from a pandemic that has c

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Connie M. Ulrich; Christine Grady

ISBN:

978-3-03-082112-8

Specialty:

• Issues & Trends in Nursing
• Medical Law
• Ethics & Other Humanities
• Epidemiology
• Legal Issues

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

151

Publication Year:

2022

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