After completing the CITI assignments and watching Ms Ever’s boys, I think that my assumptions on ethics have not really changed that much. I think that the nurses is to provide continuous care to the best of their ability to their patients. In regard to the movie I thought that Ms. Ever was doing that in the beginning. She made sure that the efforts of the study were truly for the benefit of her patients and the overall population. However, once she knew that her patients were purposely being neglected proper treatment I felt that is when she needed to make a stand and say something.
Because of the actions of Ms Ever and the other members of the Tuskegee experiment, nurses and anyone else that may be involved in a research of any sorts have been able to learn valuable information regarding ethics in research. Looking back at the mistakes and the harm made from the actions of Tuskegee has allowed for constant improvement of how research is done and carried out. I think that it has provided a baseline on what is now considered ethical as a standard practice of research and what the limits of what a nurse would find to be ethical. In the case of Ms Ever she knew that she had an ethical conflict by not providing the patients with the proper treatment but didn’t want to interfere with the study, moving forward I think that nurses now have been able to make sure that their ethical beliefs won’t have to be compromised for the study.
