Between Scarcity and Virtue
Nursing Care Ethical Dilemmas during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Care, nursing, Covid-19 pandemic, ethical dilemmasAbstract
During the Covid-19 pandemic in Argentina, the healthcare work is transformed by spontaneously adapting to certain demands of the particular situation. There is an increased personnel demand, the work is intensified and new care protocols, norms and strategies are established. In this article we present some results of the analysis of interviews conducted with nurses about their work experiences in general hospitals in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires. The objective is to account for the ethical dilemmas faced by nursing staff during the pandemic in order to make visible difficulties and possible lines of future work around nourse training and working conditions.
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