Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism

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OPINION ON ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM
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Introduction
Ethical conduct implies on doing things the right way. Any interaction between human
beings which may involve collecting data or research must have ethical aspects. Moral behavior
does not only entail doing stuff in the right direction, and it entails in doing something in the
right spirit as a result of real respect and compassion to other human beings. Therefore the
national statement on ethical conduct in human research should thus be focused on something
more concrete and different than the do's and don'ts of ethics. Research carried out on people,
their tissue or data is known as human research and this kind of study aims at contributing
positively to the human life. The risk involved in human research is minimal, and in Australia,
most of the human research conducted has been done so in an ethically and safely manner.
Research ethics, requires great chances, and there are possibilities it might go wrong in some
instances (Bredenoord and Knoblich 2017 p.9414). A risk may occur if even the research has
good intentions. They may occur as a result of the technical error, neglect disregard or ethical
insensitivity.
In Austria, the law governs human research and establishes privileges to all the
individuals who participate in the research, it imposes responsibilities both specific and general
to the firm or organizations conducting the survey. The common law of Australia originates from
the relationship between the participants, institutions and the researchers. Institutions are
responsible for observing research ethics in the research governance. Human research is
conducted based on the relationship between the researcher and the participants (Racine et al
2017 p.58). There are values and principals set for there to be ethical research. These principles
of ethical research are: 1)justice, 2) respect for the hum an beings, 3)integrity and 4) the
advantages of the investigation, 5) beneficence, 6)moral equality, 7)mutual responsibilities,

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contributions towards the goals of the said community and 8) cultural diversity respect. These
principles are discussed in details below.
The principle of respect entails recognizing that every human being has an absolute value which
informs all the interaction between human beings. It involves acknowledging that every person
has the right to make their own decision. Research can fail to be considered as ethically
justifiable if it is of no benefit to the community or the research lacks integrity. On the other
hand, justice refers to the to the treatment of one person similar to all the others (Khodyakov et al
2016 p.54)
Additionally beneficence assists in the shaping of the relationship in which a person
trusts. It involves analyzing and taking into considerations any risk of harm or likely benefits or
gains of the study to the entire community and also to the participants. It consists in assessing the
implications of their research on the social and cultural aspect. Respecting human being is a
common thread in ethical values deliberation. it one of the core value of the moral consideration
for any organization carrying out research (Department of Health 2014 p.4). Thus for the
researcher to conduct a study on dementia patients she/he must reflect on these values and
principles to be considered as ethical.
2) Identify the ethical considerations relevant to the research participants in the scenario study.
For each group describe the mitigation strategies you could employ to ensure you meet your
moral obligations.
Dementia can be referred to as a mental disorder which results from brain injury or
disease. On the other side, mitigation can be described as an attempt to minimize the severity
brought about by a particular condition. Patients with dementia do not show if they have received