Ethical Issues in Nursing Research and Impact of Nurse Led Clinic on Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

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Ethical issues in nursing research
Ethics is the guiding principles that nurses have to operate within during their practice as
well during their clinical research. There are different ethics that include confidentiality,
Confidentiality is the ability to keep information very secretive so that it does not reach
out to unauthorized individuals. In qualitative research however, maintaining confidentiality can
be challenging. The difficulty in maintaining confidentiality in qualitative research is the fact that
there are so many details to illustrate as well as report the findings. However, nurses should
always try and maintain the confidentiality of the participants (Kumar, 2016). One way that
nurses can use to maintain confidentiality is through the use of pseudonyms rather than the real
names of the participants.
Risk-benefit ratio is another ethical issues that nurses ought to look at during research.
Going by the ethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence, nurses ought to calculate the
risk benefit ratio of any particular research (Holloway, Galvin, & Holloway, 2017). It is however
very challenging in qualitative to predict an outcome or rather the balance between risks and
benefits. Even though it is difficult to predict this balance, nurses have the obligation to
anticipate the point at which balance can be achieved and operate within that point.
Informed consent is another key ethical issue surrounding nurses during research. The
process of obtaining an informed consent before a qualitative research. It is very difficult to get
the source of informed consent during qualitative research because this type of research do not
guarantee the direction in which data will be collected like interviews or questionnaires
(Parahoo, 2014). Instead of informed consent therefore, nurses ought to utilize the informed
consent process since there is constant negotiations throughout qualitative researches.