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Nursing Research Chapter 5
Nursing Research Chapter 5
Three mayor ethical principles from the Belmont report are incorporated into
most guidelines: beneficence, respect for human dignity, and justice.
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.
Justice includes the right to fair equitable treatment and the right to privacy. In
the United States, privacy has become a major issue because of the Privacy
Rule regulations that resulted from the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Ethical conduct in research involves not only protecting the rights of human and
animal subjects, but also efforts to maintain high standards of integrity and
avoid such forms of research misconduct as plagiarism, fabrication of results, or
falsification of data.
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