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Sep 2, 2021 · The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) published “Research ethics: RCN guidance for nurses” in 2009 but this is now out of date and does not reflect recent legislative developments or current ethical review practices (Royal College of Nursing, 2009). The time might be right to consider developing national, or even international, guidance on ...
Jun 4, 2020 · The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed. In patient care situations, not infrequently, there are conflicts between ethical principles (especially ...
- Basil Varkey
- 10.1159/000509119
- 2020
- Med Princ Pract. 2021 Feb; 30(1): 17-28.
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Nursing research is held to the same ethical standards as all other research involving human participants. Nurses need to understand and apply ethical principles to their own research, as well as to the reading and review of research. The Declaration of Helsinki in 1964 is a statement about ethical principles, initially applied to medical research, but which now guides all types of research ...
- Roberta Heale, Allison Shorten
- 2017
Jul 28, 2016 · Abstract. Ethics is fundamental to good research practice and the protection of society. From a historical point of view, research ethics has had a chequered past and without due cognisance there is always the potential for research to do harm. Research ethics is fundamental to research practice, nurse education and the development of evidence.
- Owen Doody, Maria Noonan
- 2016
- Informed Consent
- Anonymity and Confidentiality
- Beneficence
- Nurse-Teacher-Researcher Ethics Conflicts
Informed consent has two main purposes: first and foremost, to promote the autonomy of the individual research subject and second to safeguard them from harm (Judkins-Cohn et al. 2014). According to Judkins-Cohn et al. (2014), “informed consent consists of disclosure, capacity, comprehension, and voluntary and autonomous permission” (p. 36). This r...
Maintaining the anonymity of research subjects can be easily adhered to by nurse-researchers via a system whereby participants’ identities cannot be linked with their personal responses. If the nature of the research precludes the use of such a system, then confidentiality must be addressed in some other way. Confidentiality requires the management...
One way to understand beneficence is through the “risk-benefit ratio” of the research study, that is, will the benefit of participation on the part of the subject outweigh the risk involved in their participation? This can be difficult to foresee, particularly in qualitative research studies (Grout 2004). Researchers must not only anticipate this r...
Nurse-researchers can find themselves facing ethical conflicts when conducting studies that utilize students as well as clients or in their roles as both teacher and researcher. The nurse-teacher-researcher may find obligations to client-subjects and student-subjects in the clinical setting daunting to navigate ethically. For instance, when would t...
- Edie West
- edie.west@iup.edu
Nursing research often involves collection of data from human participants. Participants involved with research may be vulnerable, acutely unwell or even lack capacity to make decisions. Protecting the safety and well-being of all participants is a requirement and nurse researchers need to ensure the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice are maintained ...
