Exam 13: Legal and Ethical Issues

The nurse researcher is planning a research study that will use human subjects and their choice to participate in a specific treatment. The ethical principle that describes a prospective subject's freedom to choose whether or not to participate in the research study is what?

What is the ethical principle that is violated if doctors inject aged and senile patients with their cancer cells to study their rejection responses?

What are ethical principles that are illustrated by obtaining IRB approval? (Select all that apply.)

An adult participant receives an informed consent form to participate in a study on breast cancer in women younger than the age of 35. The study's informed consent process should include which elements? (Select all that apply.)

What is the basic human right that is violated when a nurse researcher allows an unauthorized person access to study data containing information about subject identity and responses?

A patient newly diagnosed with breast cancer is asked to participate in a clinical trial for a new chemotherapy agent. This patient's freedom to participate or not participate in the study exercises protection of which of her human rights?

What is the basic human right that exists when the subject's identity cannot be linked, even by the researcher, with his or her individual responses?

The role of an IRB includes which actions? (Select all that apply.)

Which statements are accurate regarding the assent process for pediatric research? (Select all that apply.)

Which statement regarding informed consent is most accurate?

A person gives consent to participate in a study, is assigned to an intervention group, and is expected to remain in the study for 1 year. What ethical principle is violated if after 6 months the subjects in the treatment group have more problems than the control subjects, and the nurse researcher does not allow the members of the treatment group to stop treatment?

How should a completed and signed informed consent form be handled?

All the following statements appear in a study's informed consent form. Which statement violates the Code of Federal Regulations?

What basic human right exists when subjects have the right to withdraw from a study without penalty?

What factors might influence whether it is ethical to require an older adult to participate in a research study? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse researcher is planning a research study that will use human subjects and their choice to participate in a specific treatment. The ethical principle guiding the research study that describes the nurse researcher's obligation to benefit others is what?

Which is considered an essential element of the informed consent form for a research study?

A staff nurse overhears a health care professional use coercion to make a patient agree to participate in a research study. What should the staff nurse do?

What basic human right is considered to be equitable selection of subjects and their treatment during the research study?

The issue of personal privacy may be more difficult for nurse researchers to protect in qualitative studies than it is in quantitative studies for which reason?