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Relationships in Research

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Relationships in Research

Relationships are important in a research or healthcare delivery process as they help

built trust and enhance information sharing which is critical in supporting a research process

and service delivery. In research, researcher-participant relationships allow them to

professionally interact which enhance data collection enriching the quality of the findings. On

the other hand, the nurse-patient relationship allows an effective patient assessment and

delivery of care. According to Hay-Smith et al. (2016), nurse-patient relationship is described

as a helping relationship based on addressing patients’ emotional, physical, and spiritual

needs and is based on mutual respect and sensitivity to self and others. On the other hand,

researcher-participant relationship is the relationship between an individual tasked with the

responsibility of conducting psychological investigation and a person or group that is

providing information (data) on the topic (Olsen, Lehto, & Chan, 2016).

While the two relationships are different in where and whom are involved, they share

multiple relationship. One of the similarities is that they are aimed at enhancing information

sharing which is paramount in a research or a in a care delivery process. Another similarity of

these relationships is that they are all based on ethical principles of nursing practice and

research (Olsen, Lehto, & Chan, 2016; Hay-Smith et al. 2016). Researchers and nurses are

therefore required to operate within the confines of ethical principles of autonomy, justice,

beneficence, and non-maleficence.

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References

Hay-Smith, E. J. C., Brown, M., Anderson, L., & Treharne, G. J. (2016). Once a clinician,

always a clinician: a systematic review to develop a typology of clinician-researcher

dual-role experiences in health research with patient-participants. BMC medical

research methodology, 16(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0203-6

Olsen, D. P., Lehto, R. H., & Chan, R. R. (2016). Ethical case study of the researcher–

participant relationship in end-of-life research. Western journal of nursing research,

38(9), 1205-1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945916639590