{"id":1759,"date":"2020-05-20T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T02:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T03:49:17","slug":"covid-19-decisions-ethics-and-the-impact-on-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2020\/05\/20\/covid-19-decisions-ethics-and-the-impact-on-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Decisions, ethics \u2013 and the impact on staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/420578526?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has resulted in a flurry of high-stakes decision-making, at a public health level and an individual patient level, with significant impacts on how children are cared for, and how staff work. Many of these decisions have ethical dimensions. In this Grand Round, we discuss the ethical balancing between competing values that lies behind these decisions. We also consider some of the impacts on staff who are implementing and working with the effects of those decisions. As always, an ethics discussion is interactive &#8211; we invite your questions and comments by Zoom chat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor John Massie<\/strong> is a consultant respiratory physician at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, and Clinical Lead of the Children\u2019s Bioethics Centre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Clare Delany<\/strong> is a clinical ethicist at the Children\u2019s Bioethics Centre and health professional educator in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Lynn Gillam<\/strong> is a clinical ethicist at RCH, and Academic Director of the Children\u2019s Bioethics Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 has resulted in a flurry of high-stakes decision-making, at a public health level and an individual patient level, with significant impacts on how children are cared for, and how staff work. Many of these decisions have ethical dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12674,7930,7949,12690,1,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-general-interest","category-paediatrics","category-public-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}