School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Archimedes Centre, Wrexham Technology Park, Wrexham LL13 7YP, UK.
Nurse Educ Today. 2010 Feb;30(2):192-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.07.013. Epub 2009 Sep 3.
The aim is to discuss a new framework that can aid ethical decision making in educational nursing research.
Nurse researchers have a significant amount of guidance to inform their ethical decision making in relation to research. However, research governance and professional guidance only go so far in promoting ethical research practice. Nurse researchers who work in higher education institutes face particular ethical challenges when nursing students are used as research participants.
We explore the complexities of educational research and introduce a framework that can help nurse researchers to make ethically sound research decisions. We draw inspiration from Wendler and Grady (2008) [Wendler, D., Grady, C., 2008. What should research participants understand to understand they are participants in research? Bioethics, 22(4), 203-208] who explored the issue of informed consent in bioethical research. They proposed three key issues that researchers need to consider: research contribution; research relationship and research impact. Inspired by their work, we have developed the Framework for Ethical Research Practice for use in a nursing context. Using examples from our research, we show how the framework can be a useful tool for nurse researchers to assist them in making ethically sound research decisions.
This new framework should appeal to researchers seeking innovative ways of enhancing the ethical realm of their practice.
旨在讨论一个新框架，以帮助教育护理研究中的伦理决策。
护士研究人员有大量的指导来告知他们与研究相关的伦理决策。然而，研究治理和专业指导在促进伦理研究实践方面只能起到一定的作用。在高等教育机构工作的护士研究人员在将护理学生用作研究参与者时，会面临特殊的伦理挑战。
我们探讨了教育研究的复杂性，并引入了一个框架，帮助护士研究人员做出合理的伦理研究决策。我们从 Wendler 和 Grady（2008）[Wendler，D.，Grady，C.，2008. 研究参与者应该理解什么才能理解他们是研究的参与者？生物伦理学，22（4），203-208]那里获得灵感，他们探讨了生物伦理研究中知情同意的问题。他们提出了研究人员需要考虑的三个关键问题：研究贡献；研究关系和研究影响。受他们工作的启发，我们开发了用于护理背景的《伦理研究实践框架》。我们使用自己的研究示例来说明该框架如何成为护士研究人员做出合理的伦理研究决策的有用工具。
这个新框架应该吸引那些寻求创新方法来增强其实践伦理领域的研究人员。
