Question

What are some of the major ethical issues in conducting research that impacts the advanced registered nurse? Discuss the role of the advanced registered nurse in advocating for patient safety and rights in conducting research.

Answer 1

Ethics of the nursing profession is to doing good, maintain privacy and confidentiality about patient data.But in the point of research we analyze the patients data and disseminate our findings for public study.So it is conflict between the professional ethics and the research.Maintaining confidentiality and informed consent inhibit you from doing advanced rare research projects.Consider if a client has a serious rare condition if the advanced registered nurse is interested in doing research in the client data.She consider it gives improvement in her career. But the patient is not interested for this he don't want to reveal his rare condition to the public study.He rejects the research.Here the two the confidentiality and informed consent are the two ethical impact the research of the advanced registered nurse.These are the major ethical issues.

Role of the Advanced registered nurse:

As a nurse she is the responsible and accountable for all the patient needs.

Nurse takes a leading role in accountable for patient safety.

She must act as a patient advocate for patient safety and rights in conducting research.

As a client advocate:

She checks whether the informed consent is signed by the client.

she checks whether the client is willing to participate in the research or it is compelled by the researchers.

Ensure the client safety in the research

Ensure whether the clients health status enable him to participate in the research.

Study about the full research works regarding the client part.