Carolyn Pieri Research clinical nurse consultant, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Suzanne Sheppard-Law Associate professor, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Andrew Finney Director of research, Keele University, Staffordshire, England
Elizabeth Halcomb Professor of primary healthcare nursing, University of Wollongong, Australia
Gemma McErlean Associate professor, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia

It is crucial to understand risk and ethical considerations, and to ensure your study builds on existing knowledge

Health research drives improvements in patient health outcomes, health service delivery and healthcare efficiency (WHO 2015). Ethical approval is a crucial step in ensuring that research is designed, conducted and translated in ways that recognise and ensure shared social values and needs. It safeguards the fundamental ethical principles of respect, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence, and demands research merit and integrity as foundational requirements (NHMRC 2023).

Nurse Researcher. 33, 4, 6-8. doi: 10.7748/nr.33.4.6.s2

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