Human Rights and Ethics in Research

The nurse who observed that the research participant did not recall signing the consent papers and did not remember the details of the research project to which he had agreed to participate should have stopped the researcher from going any farther with him until it could be ascertained if the man was in a frame of mind to give legal consent. It is the duty of the nurse who is observing the research to be aware of anything that may be detrimental to the well-being of the people she is overseeing, and also to be aware of any infringements upon their legal or human rights. If there was a question as to whether the man really did not remember signing the consent papers and no longer remembered what the project involved, he needed to be removed from the ongoing research and questioned in a...
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