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ETHICS IN NURSING IN PALLIATIVE CARE AT THE END OF LIFE IN COVID-19

Authors

  • Denisse Parra-Giordano
  • Irene Muñoz Pino Universidad Andrés Bello
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-5839.2020.58223

Abstract

Faced with the current pandemic caused by the coronavirus, a situation of the humanitarian crisis is created, making it essential to consider ethical aspects in the provision of Palliative Care to provide comprehensive care to the population at the end of life. Understanding Nursing as a pillar in the Palliative Care work team, this essay aims to reflect on Ethics in Palliative Care Nursing at the end of life in times of COVID-19. Palliative Care develops under ethical principles. It means that all people should have universal access to health, even when the disease is in an advanced stage, offering the quality of life and accompaniment in a dignified death. However, faced with due to the high degree of contagion of the coronavirus, people die isolated in intensive care services without the accompaniment of the family; it is the responsibility of the health team to grant the accompany in death. Given this reality, self-care activities are necessary for the health team and the family, while ensuring safe working conditions and the use of protective equipment. Thus, Nursing has a fundamental ethical role in the current humanitarian crisis, mainly the delivery of Palliative Care at the end of life in times of COVID-19, accompanying at the end of life, avoiding reaching isolation and even death in loneliness.

Keywords:

Ethics, Nursing, Hospice Care, Death, Coronavirus Infections, Nurse's Role

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Parra-Giordano, D., & Muñoz Pino, I. (2020). ETHICS IN NURSING IN PALLIATIVE CARE AT THE END OF LIFE IN COVID-19. Revista Chilena De Enfermería, 2(1), 114–122. https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-5839.2020.58223
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