Chapter 16
Ethics Issues in Nursing Research
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- History of ethical concern in research
- Importance of ethics in nursing research
- Human rights and consideration in research
- The Nuremberg Code (1947)
- Ethical principles concerned with nursing research
- Causes of unethical behaviour
16.1 INTRODUCTION
Ethics is concerned with the conduct of a human being. All scientific activities, including those by social scientists, are conducted with the participation of human beings or have an impact on human beings and on the wider society and environment. For making an ethical judgment, the researcher relies upon various standards of ethics, which could be universal or specific to the cultures or localities. A researcher should have deep ...
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