The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the capacities of health care systems and raised new challenges related to ethical, medical humanity, communication, psychological, patient safety, and clinical risk management issues. According to UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology and the International Bioethics Committee, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health requires a global bioethics reflection and response. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that it is no longer possible to make medicine from medicine alone, but that every reality with which humans are confronted with can have an effect on health. Because of this, the pandemic showed a systemic dimension of medicine, in which the ethics of a “job well done” is the foundation and effect of an integrated collaboration between health professionals.
The ethics of a “job well done” has, as its theoretical objective, the enhancement of the moral object of the Human Act which, in public health, provides the main content of best practice and of the care gold standard. When it is necessary to evaluate professional action in a public health scenario, the ethics of a “job well done” is applied with a bioethical reflection, starting from its quality as a prerequisite for a relationship with the patient that respects the virtue of justice and prudence.
The Topic Editors are inviting papers on a range of research, practices, and educational topics regarding ethical issues particularly related to the experience of patients, front line healthcare professionals, and clinical risk managers involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this Research Topic is to highlight the ethical issues that emerged during the pandemic and how these were addressed according to an approach consistent with the definition of a “job well done”.
Specific areas of interest to this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
• Policy and pandemic;
• Ethics of a “job well done”;
• Pandemic and clinical risk management;
• Ethical criteria for the admission and management of patients in the ICU under conditions of limited medical resources;
• Individual rights and public health in pandemic scenario;
• Health professionals’ safety in the COVID-19 centers;
• The duty of vaccination and hesitancy issue;
• Clinical trials in emergency setting;
• Psychological skyline of the pandemics impact on population;
• Laboratory safety ethics;
• Hospitals’ management in pandemic era;
• Ethics committee and COVID-19 Trials.
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the capacities of health care systems and raised new challenges related to ethical, medical humanity, communication, psychological, patient safety, and clinical risk management issues. According to UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology and the International Bioethics Committee, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health requires a global bioethics reflection and response. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that it is no longer possible to make medicine from medicine alone, but that every reality with which humans are confronted with can have an effect on health. Because of this, the pandemic showed a systemic dimension of medicine, in which the ethics of a “job well done” is the foundation and effect of an integrated collaboration between health professionals.
The ethics of a “job well done” has, as its theoretical objective, the enhancement of the moral object of the Human Act which, in public health, provides the main content of best practice and of the care gold standard. When it is necessary to evaluate professional action in a public health scenario, the ethics of a “job well done” is applied with a bioethical reflection, starting from its quality as a prerequisite for a relationship with the patient that respects the virtue of justice and prudence.
The Topic Editors are inviting papers on a range of research, practices, and educational topics regarding ethical issues particularly related to the experience of patients, front line healthcare professionals, and clinical risk managers involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this Research Topic is to highlight the ethical issues that emerged during the pandemic and how these were addressed according to an approach consistent with the definition of a “job well done”.
Specific areas of interest to this Research Topic include but are not limited to:
• Policy and pandemic;
• Ethics of a “job well done”;
• Pandemic and clinical risk management;
• Ethical criteria for the admission and management of patients in the ICU under conditions of limited medical resources;
• Individual rights and public health in pandemic scenario;
• Health professionals’ safety in the COVID-19 centers;
• The duty of vaccination and hesitancy issue;
• Clinical trials in emergency setting;
• Psychological skyline of the pandemics impact on population;
• Laboratory safety ethics;
• Hospitals’ management in pandemic era;
• Ethics committee and COVID-19 Trials.
