Question

Conducting research with strong ethical principles is a critical component of being an effective nurse researcher. What did you learn from participating in the interactive lessons on ethical principles in research? Are ethics in research clear cut, or do you think there are some gray areas? Explain your answer. How will you ensure that your research is conducted in an ethical manner? What potential challenges might you face?

Answer 1

Answer: The use of ethical principles in the research mainly focus on the minimizing the risk of harm. It reduce the occurance of the harm. The ethical principles also includes maintaining the privacy and confidentiality. It also provides right to withdraw from the research.

Ethics in research not only focus on the outcomes but also consider about the volunteers involved in the research. This is the reason in the research ethics informed consent is obtained.

To ensure that research is conducted in an ethical manner as monitoring and evaluating all the ethical principles should be considered in the research.

The challenges that occurs such as most of the time their is risk that the volunteer may withdraw and it has impact on the ongoing research.