Panelists:
Nancy Berlinger, PhD
Research Scholar, The Hastings Center
Christine Grady, PhD, RN
Chief of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health
Margit Krellwitz, MSN, BSN
Director of Nursing Services, Greenhurst Nursing Center, Arkansas
Abstract: Frontline healthcare workers have been at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic for more than a year, shouldering the burden of a highly infectious virus that has taken the lives of more than 675,000 Americans and that has affected all aspects of society. These clinicians have faced numerous ethical challenges in providing standard-of-care treatments for sick and dying patients in settings where critical resources are often lacking. They have also faced risks to their own health and well-being as well as to their extended families. Healthcare workers in non-hospital settings, such as long-term care facilities, have also seen much suffering among vulnerable elderly patients and their families. The panel will discuss the continuing rise of moral distress, its impact on clinicians and the organizations in which they work, and how to meet the needs of a weary workforce that is strained beyond capacity.
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Sponsored by the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Location and Address
Online