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It All: Providing Patient Care and Whistleblowing During a Pandemic
the duty to provide care to patients during a pandemic is not unlim-
ited. Regulated health care professionals enjoy the benefit of seeking
guidance from their professional bodies and associations regarding
the scope of their duty. PSWs, by contrast, are unregulated health
care providers. They have been impacted during the COVID-19 cri-
sis because of the nature of their work in the LTC setting and the
poor working conditions they have encountered. We believe it may
be time to consider whether PSWs should be self-regulating, as this
could offer greater clarity about the standard of care to be provided to
patients during pandemics and otherwise. Given the significant risks
health care workers face on the front lines, it has been deeply trou-
bling to learn that governments and health care institutions have not
always met their responsibilities to provide safe working conditions
for health care workers.
Health care workers have also played a critical role as whistle-
blowers by disclosing unethical and illegal practices. Although this
is not a new role, whistleblower protection for health care workers
continues to be piecemeal at best. Given the importance of whistle-
blowing to patient safety and public health, we believe a comprehen-
sive framework composed of legislation, professional guidance, and
institutional processes is greatly needed.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International