Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care (eBook)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
IX, 151 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-82113-5 (ISBN)

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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 challenged our basic ethical principles of justice and what is 'fair, good and right' in caring for those who need care, including the most vulnerable and nurses themselves?  This book addresses these and other ethical concerns that nurses are facing in their day-to-day clinical practice; experiences shared with patients, families, and colleagues. Although this book was written while the pandemic was still raging across the United States and globally, the events needed to be told as they were unfolding. 

This book helps us to learn from both the successes and failures that are affecting so many across the globe, including those on whom the public relies on to provide quality, compassionate, and expert care when they are sick: nurses. 


Dr. Connie M. Ulrich is the Lillian S. Brunner Chair in Medical and Surgical Nursing and a Professor of Bioethics and Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing with a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.  
Dr. Ulrich was trained in bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in the Department of Bioethics. Her national and international bioethics program of research has focused on advancing empirical bioethics in both clinical practice and research using innovative mixed methodology approaches.  She has received funding for her work from the National Institutes of Nursing Research, National Cancer Institute, and other federal and state agencies. Dr. Ulrich has published in leading medical, nursing, and bioethics peer-review journals; and has published a book on 'Everyday ethics: ethical issues and stress in nursing practice.'  Her most recent book, published by Springer Nature with her colleague Dr. Christine Grady is entitled 'Moral distress among the Healthcare Professions.' 

Dr. Christine Grady is a nurse-bioethicist and a senior investigator who currently serves as the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Her research is both conceptual and empirical and primarily in the ethics of clinical research, including informed consent, vulnerability, study design, recruitment, and international research ethics, as well as ethical issues faced by nurses and other health care providers. Dr. Grady has authored more than 175 papers in the biomedical and bioethics literature and authored or edited several books, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. She served from 2010-2017 as a Commissioner on the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center and of the American Academy of Nursing, a senior research fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. She serves as an attending on the Bioethics Consultation service, an IRB and DSMB member, and a member of several editorial boards. 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.4.2022
Zusatzinfo IX, 151 p. 1 illus. in color.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege
Schlagworte Bioethics • Covid-19 • ethical dilemmas • nursing ethics • SARS-CoV-2
ISBN-10 3-030-82113-7 / 3030821137
ISBN-13 978-3-030-82113-5 / 9783030821135
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