Ethical Implications in Human Research

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ETHICAL IMPLICATION IN HUMAN RESEARCH
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Introduction
The life of human being is greatly precious and protected by both our local State laws and
even International Law. Therefore, when performing any human-related research, there are
established ethical considerations that nurses and even doctors performing the research out to
follow. This is done in order to reduce the cases of violation of the human being life. Human
research involves so many risks like death or even total or partial impairment and therefore a
need to ensure that these cases are reduced was introduced through coming up with ethical
considerations that any researcher performing human research should put into consideration
(Barry, 2016). This essay will discuss the values and ethics found in Australian National
Statement that nurses and even doctors need to consider in their research. Also, will discuss the
ethical considerations in human research and their mitigation strategy.
Values and principles in Australian National Statement of Ethical Conduct
Human research refers to the research which done using people or researching about their
or even using human tissues or data with a clear purpose and objective of doing well or
achieving a positive result and benefit. When conducting this kind of research, several values and
principles have been put in place to be adhered to in order to ensure that human beings' dignity
and respected in upheld. As a result of this, the Australian government through its National
Health and Medical Research Council department came up with values and principles that are
used by nurses and doctors as they perform their human researches (National Health and Medical
Research Council (Australia), 2017). These values and principles are contained in Australian
National Statement of Ethical Conduct. According to this council, there are four key values and

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principles that are applied by human research practitioners during their human research. These
values and principles include respect for human being, integrity and merit of research, justice,
and beneficence (Holian and Brooks, 2015).
Respect for the human being
In this value and principle, it recognizes that all human beings have values and therefore,
it is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure that the individual values and principles are not
violated. These values include the ability of an individual to make decisions, the ability to
determine individual life, every human being is autonomous and therefore, deserves respect
(Jefford and Moore, 2018). Further, according to this council, respect also applies to those who
do not know their rights and therefore, the human researcher ought to educate and even empower
them and seek their consent before any research about them is done. In this, those individuals
with limited or diminished autonomous like children and people with impaired judgment should
be protected (Guillemin and Gillam, 2018). For example, if research is been done to a child of
maybe less than ten years, the parents or the guardian must give the consent and permission for
the child to be involved in the research.
Integrity and merit of the research
This is the first thing which is done during a human research. It holds that the researcher
carrying the human research should be of good merit and qualified. Also, he or she must be a
person of integrity and reliability. When these values and principles of been a person of integrity,
good merit and even reliable lacks, the research process can be justified ethically and therefore
need to follow and review these ethical guides in human research (National Health and Medical
Research Council (Australia), 2017).