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Given nurses\u2019 continuous and close contact with patients, examining their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding informed consent is essential to ensure ethical standards and patient safety. Objectives: This scoping review will map and synthesize the available evidence on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of general nurses, specialist nurses, resident nurses, and nursing students in relation to informed consent. Methods: This review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews and will be guided by the PRISMA-ScR extension. A comprehensive search strategy will be applied to MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cuidatge databases. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies addressing nurses\u2019 knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding informed consent will be included. Discussion papers, reflective articles, commentaries, letters to the editor, opinion articles, books, book chapters, gray literature, and literature reviews will be excluded. Study selection and data extraction will be performed systematically, and findings will be synthesized descriptively and presented through tables and narrative analysis. Conclusions: This protocol outlines a transparent and reproducible methodology for a scoping review. It will map evidence on nurses\u2019 and nursing students\u2019 knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding informed consent; it will summarize the existing evidence as well. 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