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Is the first book on the ethical challenges faced by nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Presents a broad range of ethical issues that nurses confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic
Stresses the importance of nursing care for the well-being of patients and families
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Connie M. Ulrich
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Clinical Center, Department of Bioethics, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA
Christine Grady
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care
Editors: Connie M. Ulrich, Christine Grady
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82113-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82112-8Published: 26 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82113-5Published: 25 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 151
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Ethics, Epidemiology, Bioethics