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There has been a progressive increase in the amount of nursing research being carried out in Britain over the past 25 years. This is a promising trend which illustrates that nurses are becoming increasingly aware of the need to utilize research in their practice. The result of this has been that the delivery of care is now more likely to be based on insight and understanding rather than tradition alone. To a certain extent, this is a valid response to demands for nursing to become a research-based profession. If other professionals are seen to engage actively in research, then nurses must do likewise if a position of real parity is ever to be achieved.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, both in your own person and in the person of all others, never as a means but always equally as an end.
(Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals)
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Kendrick, K. (1992). Considerations of personhood in nursing research: an ethical perspective. In: Soothill, K., Henry, C., Kendrick, K. (eds) Themes and Perspectives in Nursing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4435-1_15
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