A Nurse Plans to Interview Prisoners as Part of the Nurse's

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Multiple Choice

A nurse plans to interview prisoners as part of the nurse's master's thesis on treatment of health problems in correctional institutions. What special measures must the nurse take before studying these potential participants?

• A)Justify to an Institutional Review Board why the nurse must use prisoners as participants.
• B)Devise a consent process that provides for a conservator's signature.
• C)Destroy all of the nurse's records.
• D)Devise interview questions that avoid any mention of prisons or prisoners.
• E)Bracket the nurse's previous beliefs about prisoners.
• F)Assure that the consent process involves no coercion.

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