COVID-19 Ethics Framework

Shared Health has developed an ethics framework to support and inform ethical decisions related to COVID-19. The framework is appropriate for organizational decisions concerning policies and business, and for clinical decisions related to the care of specific people.

• Shared Health Ethics Framework

Regional ethics guides and frameworks

• Prairie Mountain Health
• Southern Health-Santé Sud
• WRHA

Additional ethics information

• National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy
• Canadian Nurses Association – Nurse’s ethical considerations during a pandemic
• Ethical guidance for people who work in long-term care
• Ottawa personal decision guides – a framework for making difficult personal decisions

Advance care planning

Advance care planning is the process of people discussing their health care wishes and values with their loved ones and naming a person to act as a substitute decision maker/health-care proxy if they should become unable to speak for themselves. It has also been called an advance directive or a living will. This is especially important in the context of potentially life threatening illnesses. Some web resources for health care providers and Manitobans include:

• CCMB – Cancer and advance care planning
• IERHA – advance care planning
• The Manitoba health care directive (includes Health Care Directive Form)
• Manitoba Renal Program – advance care planning
• PMH – advance care planning
• SH-SS – advance care planning
• WRHA – advance care planning