Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	62
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	50
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	48
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	45
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	40
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	39
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	35
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	34
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	33
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	33
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	32
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	30
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	29
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	28
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	25
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	25
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	25
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	23
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	23
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	23
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	23
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	22
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	22
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	21
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	21

Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	20
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	20
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	20
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	19
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	19
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	19
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	18
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	18
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	17
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	17
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	16
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	16
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	16
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	16
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	15
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	15
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	15
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	15
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	15
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	15
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	14
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	14
Editorial	14
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	13
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	13
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	13
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	13
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	13
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	13
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	13
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	12
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	12
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	12
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	12
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	11
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	11
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	11
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	11
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	11
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	11
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	11
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	11

Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	11
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	11
Ethical aspects of professional migration	10
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	10
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	10
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	10
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	10
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	9
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	9
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	9
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	9
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	9
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	8
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	8
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	8
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	8
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	8
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	8
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	8
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	8
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	8
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	8
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	8
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	7
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	7
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	7
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	7
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	7
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	7
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	7
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	7
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	7
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	6
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis	6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	6
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	6
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	6
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	6
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	6
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	6
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	6

Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	6
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	6
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	6
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model	6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation	5
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study	5
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic	5
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2022	5
Human rights and nutritional care in nurse education: lessons learned	5
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	5
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	5
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care	5
Barriers and facilitators to compassionate care from the perspective of healthcare providers: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	5
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia	5
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	5
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections	5
Ethical challenges among registered dietitians in oral nutritional supplement prescription	5
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis	5
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation	5
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	5
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity	5
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	5
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being	5
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system	5
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review	5
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs	5
Effectiveness of active learning methods in nursing ethics education: A quasi-experimental study	5
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity	5
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress	5
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	5
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	5
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review	5
Intergenerational views on humanoid nurse robots in general wards, obstetrics and neonatal units	5
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors	5
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study	4
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology	4
Young adult perspectives on dignity in mental healthcare	4
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide	4
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost	4
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	4
Redefining nursing solidarity	4
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study	4
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare	4
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity	4
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses	4
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	4
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment	4
Virtuous nurses and the COVID-19 vaccine	4
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature	4
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study	4
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis	4
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	4
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination	4
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care	4
Admission to undergraduate nurse education programmes: Who should be selected?	4
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care	4
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	4
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	4
Impact of profession and wards on moral distress in a community hospital	4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	4
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability	4
Providing compassionate care via eHealth	4
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives	4
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process	4
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence	4
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values	4
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	4
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review	4
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	4
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	4
Nurse lecturers’ perceptions of their professional dignity: A phenomenological study	4
The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis	4
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics	4
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses	4
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability	4
A scoping review of the moral distress of military nurses in crisis military deployment	3
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients?	3
Fostering moral resilience through moral case deliberation	3
Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders’ views	3
COVID-19-related anxieties: Impact on duty to care among nurses	3
Coping strategies and interventions to alleviate moral distress among pediatric ICU nurses: A scoping review	3
30 Years of Nursing Ethics: Reflections on progress in the field	3
Educational approach for public health ethics in nursing: Focusing on COVID-19	3
Midwives’ experience of respectful maternity care (RMC) globally: A meta-synthesis	3
Thriving at work, career calling, and moral distress among nurses	3
Ethical considerations in the UK-Nepal nurse recruitment: Nepali nurses’ perspectives	3
Ethical decision-making confidence scale for nurse leaders: Psychometric evaluation	3
Organ Donation and Transplantation Coordinators' Experience and needs for ethics education	3
Nurses’ involvement in end-of-life decisions in neonatal intensive care units	3
Moral foundations, moral emotions, and moral distress in NICU nurses	3
Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews	3
Recruiting participants for palliative care research: A reflective discussion paper	3