ABSTRACT
With the rise of e-commerce around the world, it is apparent that marketing strategies specializing in third party logistics become one of the needs to ensure the competence of the companies in delivering their services to their consumers. One of the tactics that companies use is to partner with third party logistics companies that will be able to efficiently deliver their products to the respective consumers right on time. Due to the strict health protocols given by the government concerning the rise of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines, Filipinos are left with no choice but to trust online shopping or e-commerce to buy the products that they need. This also prompts the demand of the consumers to gain access to products and services that they desire in just a few minutes. The sudden growth of e-commerce also opens difficulties in terms of the companies of outsourcing their products to their consumers.
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.