A staff nurse overhears a health care professional use coercion to make a patient agree to participate in a research study. What should the staff nurse do?
a. Confront the researcher with concerns.
b. Document suspicions in the patient's medical record.
c. Contact the hospital's Institutional Review Board.
d. Secretly tape-record the researcher's interaction with a potential subject.
ANS: C
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A Confronting the researcher is not appropriate.
B Documenting in the medical record is not appropriate.
C Concerns regarding unethical conduct by a researcher should be directed to the IRB.
D Tape-recording the researcher is not appropriate.
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