Nursing 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuremberg Code, Research, Organizational Culture
16 Dec 2016
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Nurses are in the ideal position to promote patients" awareness of the role played by research in the advancement of science and improvement in patient care. The code states that nurses must strive to uphold human rights and call attention to any violations of these rights. Ethical and legal considerations in research: a historical perspective. This began in the states after wwii when lawyers defending war criminals intended to justify the astrocities committed by nazi physicians by claiming their actions were in the name of medical research. The nuremberg code was then developed to make some regulations behind what is ok. The code that was developed requires informed consent in all cases but makes no provisions for any special treatment of children, older adults, or people who are mentally incompetent. Ethics is the theory or discipline dealing with principles of moral values and moral conduct.
