Ethical Considerations
The American Nurses Association (ANA) provides ethical guidelines for nurses responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethics Resources
- Policy Brief: Dissemination of Non-scientific and Misleading COVID-19 Information
- COVID-19: Evidence as the Basis of Decisions
- Provision 5: Self-Care & COVID-19
- ANA Tips for Nurses
- Crisis Standards of Care
- Nurses, Ethics, and the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19); Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to COVID-19: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/ethicalframeworkcovid19
- Supporting Ethical Care and Responding to Moral Distress in a Public Health Emergency: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/guidancetoolsresourcescovid19/
- Resources for Frontline Clinicians Facing COVID-19 Challenges
- World Health Organization: Guidance for Managing Ethical Issues in Infectious Disease Outbreaks: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/guidance-for-managing-ethical-issues-in-infectious-disease-outbreaks
- World Health Organization: COVID-19 and Mandatory Vaccination: Ethical Considerations and Caveats: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Policy-brief-Mandatory-vaccination-2021.1