Healthcare workers have a moral obligaton
to care for COVID-19 patents and cannot
object to caring for these patents.
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Table of Contents
Introduction:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2
Discussion……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
Conclusion:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5
References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
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Introducton:
Healthcare workers present greater responsibility for the society in providing safe and effectve
care. The whole world was suffering from COVID-19 pandemic and threatened. Healthcare
workers cover moral duty for a caring patent with COVID-19. The healthcare workers cannot
refuse or get away from their responsibility in caring for the patents. Health care workers are
ethically obliged to provide safe and potental care for the patents fghtng with COVID-19. This
report will develop ethical arguments and opinions regarding the role of healthcare workers in
providing care amid pandemic of coronavirus.
Discussion
The current COVID-19 pandemic is proceeding to exact tremendous strain on the healthcare
systems around the world. Hospitals are exhibitng incredible adaptability, with numerous
outpatent discussions and electve tasks generally dropped. These decisions are not setled on
daintly yet as comparable choices are kept on being made, it is critcal to think about crucial
moral standards from the start. The system for ethical medical practce is administered by four
key regulatons: autonomy, benefcence, non-malefcence and justce (Arora & Arora, 2020).
These are primary segments of clinical practce, partcularly when managing singular patents, in
the current situaton of COVID-19. WHO declared pandemic of coronavirus on 11 March 2020.
By then, the COVID-19 has created an ethical challenge for patents and healthcare workers. The
ethical dilemmas related is the duty of care to COVID-19 patents. The healthcare worker’s
obligaton while supportng the patents need to align with the principle of benefcence, justce,
autonomy and non-malefcence. Healthcare workers are ethically compelled to deliver effectve,
safe and moral care to all the patents and are obliged with ethical principles. There is numerous
ground that has been offered for nursing professional having a duty of care to treat. In respect
to moral theory, nursing professional have to treat all the patents regardless of potental threat.
As the world is fghtng against COVID-19, it’s the sole duty of healthcare workers to protect the
patents. Ethical responsibilites are goten from society’s comprehension of good and bad
conduct and offer to generally held qualites. There is a solid contenton for perceiving an ethical
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obligaton to give support amid health crisis, partcularly for serious consideraton staff and
others with necessary specifc apttudes. However, the ethical obligaton to work isn’t
boundless; factors, for example, the dangers to the specialist and their family, contending family
providing care obligatons and obligatons of care to different patents must be considered. It is
hard to set up away from about the extent of social insurance experts’ ethical commitments,
and in this manner, an alert is required in interpretng such commitments into lawfully
enforceable obligatons (Lor et al., 2016).
Professional obligatons depend on a specifc calling’s comprehension of how individuals from
that profession ought to act and align in rules or codes of ethics (Anwar, 2013). Medical
professionals and nurses have a central duty of care and can’t, with uprightness, refuse to care
about clients with COVID-19 out of fear of getng the disease (Brody & Avery, 2020). This duty
of care is communicated in profcient ethical codes, at tmes, just in obscure terms (Australian
Government, 2020). The requirement for effectve guidance from professional regulatory bodies
on the duty of care and its cutoff points is needed (Ruderman et al., 2006). The governance
bodies and employers should rethinks on the dangers of doling out health care professionals to
capacites not ordinarily inside their dutes but allocatng non-experts functoning errands that
are typically performed by experts, or doling out experts to work in territories. Medical
practtoners, that are working in new zones, now and again past their ability level, are worried
that their actvites may bring about lawbreaker or expert liability. Although the atenton is on
experts, an obligaton of care reaches out to all wellbeing labourers, since without the help of
non-profcient labourers, the NHS would stop to work. In one examinaton, all health care
workers, paying litle heed to profcient status, thinked that they had an obligaton to work
regardless of the individual hazard(Damery et al., 2010). The moral obligaton of care is
connected to the ethics of solidarity between those working inside the NHS and solidarity
among them and citzenry (Prainsack & Buyx, 2016). A few specialists have kicked the bucket
throughout caring patents with COVID-19, so it appears to be that the duty of care isn’t reliant
on the degree of hazard, regardless of whether from the outset it appears to be profoundly
applicable to the degree of the ethical duty. Normally, dangers are relieved beyond what many
would consider possible by close to personal protecton equipment (PPE). At the moment,
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healthcare workers are happy to face fundamental challenges, they are not ready to take
pointless ones. Medical practtoners are expected to receive a view that their duty of care
abrogates self-safeguarding, and there is litle discussion about any cutoff points to this duty of
care.
The healthcare workers need to abide by the ethical principles when implementng the care for
patents. Healthcare workers must follow the ethical principles and carry out their duty of care
despite any excuses (Orentlicher, 2018). Autonomy is one of the ethical principles that need to
be followed by healthcare workers in managing their duty of care and treatment for COVID-19
patents. The autonomy of the patent needs to be respected by healthcare workers to promote
the quality of treatment and managing informed consent (Dickert et al., 2017). Furthermore,
Healthcare workers must follow the autonomy of patents, whether the decisions are not
suitable for patents. In the COVID-19 situaton, managing the autonomy of the patents is
challenging as there are a wider number of patents seeking medical help. However, the duty of
care is essental to follow by the nurses and health care workers without overriding it. In the
nursing proces, patents and families probably won’t comprehend or concur with choices in
regards to an emergency; absence of cardiopulmonary revival (CPR) among patents, if
ineffectve; deferred care of patents with messes other than COVID-19; understanding
admitance to investgatonal medicines, antbodies, and gadgets; or utlizaton of following
advanced advances and the informaton that they create. Treatment of COVID-19 frequently
expects choices to be made rapidly, and a few setngs have been overpowered with patents
requiring earnest consideraton, so there is less an ideal opportunity for correspondence of data
than expected. Therefore according to McGuire et al., (2020), the autonomy of patents in some
case need to be taken by healthcare workers in emergencies and immediate situatons (McGuire
et al., 2020). Furthermore, another researcher also supported argue that healthcare
professional need to apply an ethical approach in caring patents with COVID-19 (Jeffrey, 2020).
The healthcare workers also need to practce solidarity, relatonal autonomy, duty, equity, trust
and prioritzing the core values.
Fairness needs to be maintained in the care process for patents with COVID-19 (Maves et al.,
2020). Healthcare workers cannot perform inequality in the care process for patents with
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coronavirus. Justce should be prioritzed by healthcare workers when making treatment and
taking relatable actons. Healthcare workers perform a duty of care by treatng the patent with
full justce and fairness. The study from Newdick et al. (2020) supported the idea of fairness in
the healthcare system for the patents during the COVID-19 (Newdick et al., 2020).
Similarly, benefcence needs to be carried out for performing ethical behaviour and duty of care.
Indeed, the best healthcare providers, overpowered by interest forever backing and ventlators
have had inadequate for all out of need, and the limited asset has must be coordinated to those
destned to live. These grave choices should not be taken in seclusion, yet working in an
organizaton and perceiving the vulnerability that exists. In handling the pandemic, there are
additonally grave dangers of circuitous damage to patents as analysis, treatment, methodology
and medical procedures are deferred. By respectng the principle of benefcence, providers
should atempt to calm enduring as well as could be expected. In the fallout, a coordinated
exerton must be made to give a review to distraught patents (Al-Jabir et al., 2020b). Surgeons
and Healthcare suppliers should work cooperatvely and imaginatvely to securely and
economically reestablish careful administratons of dangers of a subsequent pandemic surge
and economically compelled by the pandemics fnancial devastaton (Al-Jabir et al., 2020a).
Therefore healthcare workers are morally obliged in caring COVID-19 patents and cannot object
it. The duty of care and ethical principle needs to be followed by healthcare workers amid the
pandemic situaton. Department of Health (DOH) also informed that the healthcare workers are
responsible for implementng duty of care, and ethically obliged for providing care to COVID-19
patents (NSW staff, 2020).
Conclusion:
To conclude, healthcare workers are ethically obliged by providing care to COVID-19 patents.
Healthcare workers cannot deny caring for COVID-19 patents as they need to perform a duty of
care. The ethical principle of benefcence, non-malefcence, autonomy and justce need to be
effectvely carried out in the clinical setng while providing medicinal treatment for COVID-19
patents. Healthcare workers are obliged to perform their duty of care, along with ethical
principles.
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