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Visitor Restrictions, Palliative Care, and Epistemic Agency: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Relational Practice During the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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- The Evolving Roles and Expectations of Inpatient Palliative Care Through COVID-19: a Systematic Review and Meta-synthesis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- "Doing extra work and not getting extra help": the burden of work generated to manage the "no visitors" policy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Ethical dilemmas experienced by nurses while caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: An integrative review of qualitative studies.Journal of nursing management · 2022Review
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- Nurses' Ethical Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Muslim Community: A Qualitative Study.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
Efforts to curb spread of COVID-19 has led to restrictive visitor policies in healthcare, which disrupt social connection between patients and their families at end of life. We interviewed 17 Canadian nurses providing palliative care, to solicit their descriptions of, and responses to, ethical issues experienced as a result of COVID-19 related circumstances. Our analysis was inductive and scaffolded on notions of nurses' moral agency, palliative care values, and our clinical practice in end-of-life care. Our findings reveal that while participants appreciated the need for pandemic measures, they found blanket policies separating patients and families to be antithetical to their philosophy of palliative care. In navigating this tension, nurses drew on the foundational values of their practice, engaging in ethical reasoning and action to integrate safety and humanity into their work. These findings underscore the epistemic agency of nurses and highlight the limits of a purely biomedical logic for guiding the nursing ethics of the pandemic response.
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