School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland.
Nurs Outlook. 2021 Nov-Dec;69(6):1081-1089. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2021.07.011. Epub 2021 Aug 6.
The issue as to whether health care professionals have a moral obligation to take a vaccine for a communicable disease is not new. Nonetheless, this issue takes on a fresh urgency within nursing practice in the context of the present COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., is there an ethical requirement for nurses to take a COVID-19 vaccine? This paper approaches the issue by using a hypothetical example of Nurse X who has inadvertently infected Patient Y. French's (1984a) Principle of Responsive Adjustment is adapted to claim that there would be a moral expectation that Nurse X takes a COVID-19 vaccine (unless there are justifiable reasons not to). The proposition is also made that, should Nurse X not take a COVID-19 vaccine, they could be morally associated with originally infecting Patient Y.
医护人员是否有道德义务接种传染病疫苗的问题由来已久。然而，在当前 COVID-19 大流行的背景下，这一问题在护理实践中又凸显出了新的紧迫性，即护士接种 COVID-19 疫苗是否有道德要求？本文通过一个假设的例子来探讨这个问题，即护士 X 无意中感染了患者 Y。本文改编了 French（1984a）的适应调整原则，主张人们会期望护士 X 接种 COVID-19 疫苗（除非有正当理由不接种）。本文还提出，如果护士 X 不接种 COVID-19 疫苗，他们可能在道德上与最初感染患者 Y 有关。
