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When professional duty conflicts with personal safety

I am a nurse and my hospital is asking me to work with inadequate PPE during COVID and I do not know if I have the right to refuse when patients need care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The collision between professional obligation and self-preservation creates an impossible choice between moral duty and basic survival.

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