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cord-260210-u4uosc5v	McKenna, Hugh	Covid-19: Ethical issues for nurses	2020-10-01		.txt	text/plain	1997	117	63	A foundation of nursing practice is the duty of care with the attendant obligations to alleviate suffering, restore health and respect the rights and dignity of every patient. In such a scenario, another ethical principle, distributive justice is often sacrificed, where everyone has an unqualified right to the very best health care. In the current pandemic, teams that include nurses, may be actively involved in using triage principles that will lead to the withholding of potentially lifesaving equipment or facilities from some patients with COVID-19. But no clinician should have to make these decisions alone; rather, it should be a team endeavour, based on the very best ethical and clinical evidence, a view supported by Department of Health guidance ( DoH, 2020 ). Less than six months later, their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that of nurses worldwide, demonstrates that in the face of more profound ethical dilemmas they continue to put patients first.	./cache/cord-260210-u4uosc5v.txt	./txt/cord-260210-u4uosc5v.txt