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Chinese Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Nursing ›› 2025, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (9): 1050-1054.doi: 10.3761/j.issn.2096-7446.2025.09.004

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Challenges and recommendations for ethical review in nursing clinical research

LI Jihong(), WANG Shuang()   

  • Received:2025-03-20 Online:2025-09-10 Published:2025-09-02
  • Contact: WANG Shuang E-mail:lijihong@bjsjth.cn;wangshuang@bjsjth.cn

Abstract:

This article systematically analyzes the six core challenges in the ethical review of clinical nursing research in medical institutions:weak ethical awareness among nursing researchers,lack of ethical considerations in project design,insufficient protection of the rights and interests of research participants,incomplete privacy protection mechanisms,lack of ability to identify conflicts of interest,and blurred ethical boundaries of emerging technologies. A targeted “four-dimensional improvement” strategy is proposed,and a four party linkage mechanism of “nursing management-research management-clinical research/quality promotion center-ethics committee” is constructed to implement dynamic risk assessment and process supervision. Through the above practical strategies,it is expected to enhance the ethical review in nursing research,establish an ethical management system covering the entire chain,provide evidence-based basis for the formation of the “Guidelines for Ethical Review of Nursing Clinical Research”,improve the ethical level of nursing research,and perfect the ethical governance system of nursing research in China.

Key words: Nursing Researcher, Nursing Clinical Research, Ethical Review, Ethics, Nursing