Scientific Research, Ethics and Nursing in the COVID-19 Pandemic Process: A Traditional Review COVID-19

Abstract

ABS TRACT Throughout history, science has enlightened us in overcoming the obstacles in our way and has tried to be a solution to our problems. Science has been the port where people took refuge while trying to cope with the problems they experienced. With the developing technology in recent years, human beings have been able to reach information faster in overcoming obstacles and have shaped their research in this direction. Especially recently, coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been an important pandemic problem affecting people. People have sought to get faster information to solve their problems during the pandemic process. Because the reasons such as the fact that COVID-19 can be transmitted through the respiratory tract quickly, that it is a virus encountered for the first time and that there is no treatment yet, and that it causes the death of many individuals, have led to the acceleration of research in this process. Scientists have made efforts in a rapid scientific research process in order to be beneficial to the society, but in this process, they had to face a situation that could create many ethical problems and debates. Nursing profession, which is one of the important building blocks of the health field, was also affected in this process in terms of nursing research. Significant difficulties were encountered in the planning and conduct of the studies. Especially since the profession is an applied discipline by nature, the difficulties encountered in practice have also affected the structure of research and led to ethical debates.