NUR1 422 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Institutional Review Board, Informed Consent
1 Dec 2016
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Ethical concepts are especially prominent in nursing research because the line of demarcation between what constitutes the expected practice of nursing and the collection of research data can sometimes get blurred. Furthermore, ethics can create particular challenges because ethical requirements sometimes conflict with the need to produce high-quality evidence for practice. Because research has not always been conducted ethically, and because of genuine ethical dilemmas that researcher s often face in designing studies that are both ethical and methodologically rigorous, codes of ethics have been developed to guide researchers. Three mayor ethical principles from the belmont report are incorporated into most guidelines: beneficence, respect for human dignity, and justice. Beneficence involves the performance of some good and the protection of participants from physical and psychological harm and exploitation (nonmaleficence). Respect for human dignity involves the participant right to self determination, which means participants have the freedom to control their own activities, including their voluntary participation in the study.
