Nurse involvement in Institutional Review Boards; the service setting perspective.
Access to nursing service settings and protection of human subjects for research purposes are facilitated by the institutional review board if nursing is represented on the board and nurses' research protocols are reviewed for scientific merit and human subject implications. A nurse researcher recounts experiences in achieving these goals within a service setting.
D004506:Education, Nursing; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010380:Peer Review; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D012107:Research Design; D018570:Risk Assessment