BACKGROUND The formulation and implementation of national ethical regulations to protect research participants is fundamental to ethical conduct of research. Ethics education and capacity are inadequate in developing African countries. This study was designed to develop a module for online training in research ethics based on the Nigerian National Code of Health Research Ethics and assess its e...

Every day engineers develop inventive, resourceful solutions to fix the newly discovered problems in society. Yet with every implemented decision comes benefits and repercussions. Engineers must understand both the national code of ethics and the code of ethics specific to their occupation in order to ensure that their proposed solution does not violate any rights protected within these ethical...

The development ol a code of ethics is an essential characteristic of a profession and provides one means for the exercise of professional self-regulation. A code indicates a profession's acceptance of the responsibility and trust with which it has been invested by society. Upon entering the profession ol nursing, each person inherits a measure of the responsibility and trust that has accrloe.....

Public health emergencies, such as hurricanes and the constant threat of an influenza pandemic, present public health responders with many ethical issues and little time to think them through. We interviewed 13 responders in the Epidemiology Section of the North Carolina Division of Public Health to learn how they have identified and addressed ethical issues in public health emergencies affecti...

BACKGROUND Ethics is defined as the entirety of moral principles that form the basis of individuals' behavior; it can also be defined as "moral theory" or "theoretical ethics". OBJECTIVES To determinate information and applications related to ethical codes of pediatric nurses. PATIENTS AND METHODS Participants were nurses attending the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nursing Course and the Ped...

As the leading health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) professional society, ISPOR has a responsibility to establish a uniform, harmonized international code for ethical conduct. ISPOR has updated its 2008 Code of Ethics to reflect the current research environment. This code addresses what is acceptable and unacceptable in research, from inception to the dissemination of its results. Ther...

The use of Big Data--however the term is defined--involves a wide array of issues and stakeholders, thereby increasing numbers of complex decisions around issues including data acquisition, use, and sharing. Big Data is becoming a significant component of practice in an ever-increasing range of disciplines; however, since it is not a coherent "discipline" itself, specific codes of conduct for B...

This paper emphasizes the need for specific ethical principles for psychodrama and suggests that professional ethics be included and discussed in training programs. As a basis for such discussions, some illustrative examples of ethical dilemmas are described around the following general principles: responsibility, competence, welfare, advertisement, confidentiality, therapeutic relationships an...

The scope of this research was to analyze the ethical dimension of the training of health professionals, specifically in Dentistry. Interviews were conducted with teachers, in addition to observation of academic activities and focus groups with students of two undergraduate courses. Data analysis revealed some elements of the hidden curriculum that influences the ethical dimension of training. ...