RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEES AND ETHICAL CODES
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HEALTHCARE CHAPLAIN
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https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v13i1.44Keywords:
ethics, research, chaplaincyAbstract
In this paper Iain raises important issues about how the process of applying for ethical permission should be viewed as more than a bureaucratic exercise. Hospital chaplains can take advantage of their personal experience and expertise to engage fully with the process and to help develop thinking around ethical issues. Whilst every author in this edition has probably had some kind of irritation around applying for and receiving NHS ethical approval for research, the reality is that doing research ethically and ethical research remains a challenge, one which healthcare chaplains are well placed to meet. The research ethics committee should be seen as a resource with which to engage and a help in refining the proposal.
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OEYE C BJELLAND A.K. & SKORPEN A 2007 Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital – research ethics resumed, Social Science and Medicine, 65 2296-2306.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING 2009 Research ethics: RCN guidance for nurses, http://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/7 8742/003138.pdf (last accessed 23 January, 2010).
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VALENTINE G 2005 Geography and ethics: moral geographies? Ethical commitment in research and teaching, Progress in Human Geography 29 4: 483487.
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2013-04-05
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Atherton, I. (2013). RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEES AND ETHICAL CODES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HEALTHCARE CHAPLAIN. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 13(1), 44-47. https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v13i1.44
