Assumptions of Ethical Considerations for EBP
My assumptions about a nurse’s role in ethics regarding evidence implementation and generation is facilitating the change and taking charge. Nurses oversee a lot in their care and what works well and what doesn’t. So they can get word out about their desire to research, ask other healthcare workers questions, gathering relevant evidence, find supporting evidence that is practiced now and how they want to change that practice to what they believe works better. I think nurses contribute greatly to ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings, because their voice matters. Nurses are with the patients the most and throughout all that time they see what practices work for patients and what needs change. Therefore, their contribution is their voice and it’s for their patient’s. They know what works and what doesn’t work, as I’ve said, so their voice and opinion can really help direct research.