Tehran University of Medical Sciences Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2008-0387 13 0 2020 12 19 883 883 EN Nasrin Reazee Associate Professor, Community Nursing Research Center, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Marjan Mardani - Hamooleh Associate Professor, Nursing Care Research Center, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Maryam Seraji Assistant Professor, Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. 2020 10 21 2020 12 19 Nurses face several challenges in providing care for patients with coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19). The study aimed to explain the nurses' perception of ethical challenges in this regard. The qualitative study was carried out using a content analysis method. Individual and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 nurses. Inductive content analysis was used to categorize the data. Nurses' narratives indicated that ethical challenges in caring for patients with COVID-19 included threats to professional values ​​and the absence of a holistic COVID-19 care approach. The first category was subcategorized into the risk of declining quality of patient care and a stigmatized public image about COVID-19 care. The second category was divided into poor spiritual care, poor compassionate care, and lack of family-centered care. Health care managers must develop protocols for nurses that address these issues to alleviate the ethical challenges of COVID-19 care. https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/view/883 https://jmehm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmehm/article/download/883/346