The goal of this study is to investigate the application of ethical principies in research with people in the master's thesis of students of the Nursery Master's Course at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). The theoretical reference were the principies of Bioethics of benevolence/maleficence, autonomy and justice, the 196/96 resolution and Coren's Resolution 240/2000. It was concluded that students have always followed some basic ethical principies; researcher's conduct has not changed after the adoption of Resolution 196/96; in spite of obligatoriness of sending research projects to Ethics and Research Council (CEP); most of the researchers did not fulfill that requirement; the principie most approached in Bioethics was autonomy with emphasis on informed consent and secrecy.
bioethics; nursing; research in nursing