APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS IN NURSING RESEARCH WITH ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS: REVIEW ARTICLE

Abstract Background: AI tools have become essential in the research process, currently playing an indispensable role in academic writing and nursing Research. Aim: to address different accessible AI tools and clarify its benefits in relation to nursing research, the second aim is to highlight some challenges of using AI regarding ethical and legal issues. content delivered includes, different five AI accessible tools, (NotebookLM, paperpal. ResearchRabbit, semantic scholar, AI2 paper finder) discussing each one main functions, and benefits that it provides to nursing researches. The article addresses little challenges focusing on ethical and legal aspects of using AI tools in nursing research. Conclusion: The article concluded that AI is now an essential tools for nursing researchers that facilitate research process, starting from helping in initiating the research title, editing, paraphrasing and bibliography writing, in addition to at the same time the researchers should consider limitations of using AI tools including ethical and legal aspects as AI uses is not yet well addressed by all the academic institutions. Recommendation: institutions should claim a clear policies to clarify the limitations, and putting boundaries for using AI tools in academic writing and nursing research. However Applying AI tools are essential in nursing research, but they still have to be used with cautions.