Providing the ethical example

Providing an Ethical Questionnaire in Research

Background: Concerning the significance of professional ethics compliance for the members of the faculty in research and in order for the research demonstrate a more explicit picture about the activities done for the scientific community. Therefore, the current study has been aimed to devise the professional research ethics questionnaire of university faculty members. Method: This research is a...

Professional and Ethical Values in Providing Nursing Care: The Perspective of Nurses

Introduction: Professional values comprise a significant part of the nursing profession. Learning the concept of these values and creating conditions for developing and completing them are necessary. The aim of this study was to examine the professional and ethical values in providing nursing care from the nurses’ perspective. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed on...

Providing ethical guidance for collaborative research in developing countries

Experience has shown that the application of ethical guidelines developed for research in developed countries to research in developing countries can be, and often is, impractical and raises a number of contentious issues. Various attempts have been made to provide guidelines more appropriate to the developing world context; however, to date these efforts have been dominated by the fields of bi...

Guidelines for providing ethical care in difficult provider-patient relationships.

Providing free heroin to addicts participating in research – ethical concerns and the question of voluntariness

Providing heroin to people with heroin addiction taking part in medical trials assessing the effectiveness of the drug as a treatment alternative breaches ethical research standards, some ethicists maintain. Heroin addicts, they say, are unable to consent voluntarily to taking part in these trials. Other ethicists disagree. In our view, both sides of the debate have an inadequate understanding ...