NUR 80A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Informed Consent, Null Hypothesis, Institutional Review Board
21 Jan 2016
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To ensure the study is conducted in an ethical manner; that no harm comes to the participants. Researchers must prepare an ethics application and submit to research ethics committees for approval before the study starts. The nurse in a researcher role demonstrates ethical practice (ethics standard) by: Ensuring client has all information necessary to make informed decisions. Advocating for nursing involvement on ethical review boards. Ensuring ethical guidelines are followed to protect research participants. Because research has not always been conducted ethically, and because of the ethical dilemmas researchers often face in designing studies that are both ethical and methodologically rigorous, codes of ethics have been developed to guide researchers. Canadian researchers follow the policies established in the: tri-council policy statement 2: ethical conduct for research involving humans http://www. pre. ethics. gc. ca/pdf/eng/tcps2/tcps_2_final_web. pdf (see pages 7-11) When conducting a study, researchers must apply three core principles: respect for persons, ensures participation is completely voluntary, provides informed consent (cont"d) .
