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Mock Institutional Review Board: Promoting Analytical and Reasoning Skills in Research Ethics
Jean Dowling Dols1, Mary M Hoke, Maureen L Rauschhuber
1Authors Affiliations: Associate Professor (Dr Dols), Dean and Professor (Dr Hoke), Professor (Dr Rauschhuber), Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas.
Abstract:
Although it is critical that nurses possess ethical reasoning skills for research, there is limited information on effective strategies to develop these skills in graduate health care students. A research study analyzing educational interventions including the effect of online human subjects training followed by a mock institutional review board simulation demonstrated that knowledge acquisition is not enough to acquire the ethical reasoning skills needed to implement health care research. Situational context is also needed to envision the application of ethical principles.
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