Nurses' Ethical Challenges During Caring for COVID-19 Patients: Literature Study
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Title
Nurses' Ethical Challenges During Caring for COVID-19 Patients: Literature Study
Subject
COVID-19, Critical Care Nursing, Dilemma Ethic, Ethical Challenges, Ethical Issue
Description
Nurses are frontliners during the COVID-19 pandemic and are vulnerable to ethical challenges when
caring for patients with COVID-19. The ethical challenge of nurses is basically due to the gap between nursing
practice and nursing goals. This study aims to identify empirical evidence related to the ethical challenges nurses
face when caring for COVID-19 patients. This research method uses a literature study that analyzes articles from
five international reputable databases such as CINAHL, Pubmed, Proquest, Science Direct, and search engines
Google Scholar. The keywords used to facilitate the search for articles were 'COVID-19', 'critical care nursing',
'intensive care nursing', 'intensive care nurses', 'critical nurses', 'intensive care nurses', 'caring', 'ethical
challenges', 'ethical issues', 'ethic dilemmas', ethical challenges', 'ethical issues', and 'ethical dilemmas'. with
the help of boolean operators and then the articles are selected gradually using PRISMA. From the search results
obtained 7 articles that deserve to be analyzed. There are three themes related to ethical challenges that occur,
namely ethical challenges in the nursing care process, ethical challenges in nursing professionals, and ethical
challenges in health interprofessional relationships. Ethical challenges cause nurse discomfort at work, and can
even cause job stress. Regarding these results, nurses need to get support to overcome ethical dilemmas that occur
through the provision of resources according to needs, preparation of SOPs regarding the roles and duties of nurses, as well as increasing knowledge regarding the care of COVID-19 patients.
caring for patients with COVID-19. The ethical challenge of nurses is basically due to the gap between nursing
practice and nursing goals. This study aims to identify empirical evidence related to the ethical challenges nurses
face when caring for COVID-19 patients. This research method uses a literature study that analyzes articles from
five international reputable databases such as CINAHL, Pubmed, Proquest, Science Direct, and search engines
Google Scholar. The keywords used to facilitate the search for articles were 'COVID-19', 'critical care nursing',
'intensive care nursing', 'intensive care nurses', 'critical nurses', 'intensive care nurses', 'caring', 'ethical
challenges', 'ethical issues', 'ethic dilemmas', ethical challenges', 'ethical issues', and 'ethical dilemmas'. with
the help of boolean operators and then the articles are selected gradually using PRISMA. From the search results
obtained 7 articles that deserve to be analyzed. There are three themes related to ethical challenges that occur,
namely ethical challenges in the nursing care process, ethical challenges in nursing professionals, and ethical
challenges in health interprofessional relationships. Ethical challenges cause nurse discomfort at work, and can
even cause job stress. Regarding these results, nurses need to get support to overcome ethical dilemmas that occur
through the provision of resources according to needs, preparation of SOPs regarding the roles and duties of nurses, as well as increasing knowledge regarding the care of COVID-19 patients.
Creator
Iis Haryati, Yanny Trisyani, Aan Nuraeni
Source
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nm_habi02UqFwkbtAVw-YbFxSVnPU39M
Publisher
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta
Date
2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Rights
p-ISSN: 1979-2697
e-ISSN: 2721-1797
e-ISSN: 2721-1797
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Files
Collection
Citation
Iis Haryati, Yanny Trisyani, Aan Nuraeni, “Nurses' Ethical Challenges During Caring for COVID-19 Patients: Literature Study,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 10, 2026, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/10634.