Nurses in advanced roles -- practitioners, educators, and administrators -- have a 'professional and moral imperative' to conduct and/or promote ethically- and culturally-sound nursing research. One of the challenges presented to nurses is how research results are translated into practice, specifically, how reliable or applicable these results are when applied to a specific group or population with different views about medical/health care? It is in this kind of cases that a culturally-sound nursing research is critical and necessary. Deliberate consideration for a culturally-sound or -- applicable results or evidence would result to greater appreciation and support for nursing research, not to mention the benefits for nurses and patients alike as results/evidence are applied in practice to develop responsive and appropriate healthcare interventions (Kitson, 2008:2).

Inevitably, conducting nursing research also requires adherence to not only ethical research, but also to the Code of Ethics which nurses are professionally and morally beholden to. Thus, it is imperative and in...

Professionally, an ethically-sound nursing research is a manifestation of how the nursing profession consistently applies its ethics and discipline not only in nursing practice, but in research as well. Personally, nurses must acknowledge the need to be sensitive to the nature and needs of their participants when conducting research, taking into consideration their health condition, anonymity of their identifies (if necessary), and confidentiality of information provided to them for research purposes (Douglas, 2009:257).
References

Douglas, M. (2009). "Standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care: a request for comments." Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Vol. 20, No. 3.

Kitson, a. (2008). "Evaluating the successful implementation of evidence into practice using the PARiHS framework: theoretical and practical challenges." Implementation Science, Vol. 3, No. 1.