Balancing Ethics and Professionalism: Acute Care Physical Therapy in COVID-19

The physical therapists' moral dilemmas in assisting patients with COVID-19. The difficulties physical therapists experienced in terms of their profession and morals during the COVID-19 outbreak this research looked at their experiences. Individual interviews were analysed in the present research using reflexive theme analysis, a technique reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) developed for qualitative research. The analysis of these coded interviews yielded 4 main themes and related subthemes: ensuring attentive care and favorable working conditions, Instability, The function of a physical therapist, Feelings. During COVID-19, physical therapists encountered a wide range of ethics and professional problems on an individual, organizational, and social level. Research emphasizes a desire to provide physical therapists with the knowledge and tools need to be prepared for the moral and professional challenges will face in pandemics. Physical therapists' role in pandemics is clarified, and staff members must be trained to handle anxiety; pandemics bring uncertainty and organizational adjustments. Organizations might create equitable triage methods and allocate limited resources for acute care physical therapy. Physical therapy practice and health care have substantially changed due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Research presents the results of initial research; knowledge highlighted the ethic that acute care physical therapy professionals were facing in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak that consultants had to navigate. Physical therapists may benefit from the research's findings in preparing and dealing with challenges that arise in acute treatment during a pandemic.