Nursing Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nursing Ethics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective52
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability51
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors37
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals35
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations34
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study34
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth32
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries32
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?30
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland26
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription26
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review25
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers25
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review24
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective24
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’24
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic23
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers23
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information22
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-1922
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study21
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis20
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia19
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis19
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development19
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety19
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis17
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review17
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting17
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review16
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review16
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study16
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory15
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives15
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare15
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses15
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress15
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis14
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?14
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing14
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants14
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics13
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation13
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care13
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings13
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis13
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership12
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses12
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia12
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care12
Editorial12
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study12
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home12
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons11
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model11
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review11
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study11
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics11
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics11
An umbilical cord around women’s necks11
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study11
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors10
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation10
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care10
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography10
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals10
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study10
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights10
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study9
Ethical aspects of professional migration9
Special issue: Cultivating character for care9
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study9
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study9
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis9
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job9
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults9
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain9
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia9
Calling nurses to care for burn victims after color-dust explosion9
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review8
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions8
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach8
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs8
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study8
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses8
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study8
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients8
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research8
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study8
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis8
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study7
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research7
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study7
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning7
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?7
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care7
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior7
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress6
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care6
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature6
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model6
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment6
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook6
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”6
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-196
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying6
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model6
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping5
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study5
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse5
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic5
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity5
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress5
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis5
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective5
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces5
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review5
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education5
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy5
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study5
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 20225
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic5
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity5
Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of nursing students5
Ethics, ageing and the practice of care: The need for a global and cross-cultural approach5
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue5
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”5
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study5
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units5
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review5
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation5
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review5
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model5
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis5
Clinician distress in seriously ill patient care: A dimensional analysis4
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost4
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review4
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives4
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system4
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination4
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors4
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature4
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections4
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care4
Human rights and nutritional care in nurse education: lessons learned4
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide4
Impact of profession and wards on moral distress in a community hospital4
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability4
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses4
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia4
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation4
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being4
Cyberbullying, student nurses’ ethical awareness and the Covid-19 pandemic4
The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis4
Hand hygiene monitoring technology: A descriptive study of ethics and acceptance in nursing4
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study4
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs4
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review4
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis4
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-194
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta4
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study4
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses3
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity3
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care3
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?3
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life3
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare3
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference3
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review3
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience3
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care3
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology3
Admission to undergraduate nurse education programmes: Who should be selected?3
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients3
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review3
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat3
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends3
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents3
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention3
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study3
Providing compassionate care via eHealth3
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-193
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study3
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment3
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process3
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics3
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia3
Redefining nursing solidarity3
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care3
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory3
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research3
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence3
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care3
Workplace challenges and nurses recovered from COVID-193
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses3
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-193
Virtuous nurses and the COVID-19 vaccine3
Sources of moral distress in nursing professionals: A scoping review2
Cultivating character for care2
Ethical aspects of technologies of surveillance in mental health inpatient settings – Enabling or undermining the therapeutic nurse/patient relationship?2
Nurses’ challenges, concerns and unfair requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak2
Moral foundations, moral emotions, and moral distress in NICU nurses2
Two variants of ‘constrained participation’ in the care of vulnerable adults: A proof-of-concept study2
Nurses’ ethical responsibilities: Whistleblowing and advocacy in patient safety2
Violence facing nurses and the threats they pose to autonomy and justice2
Moral reckoning among nurses: A directed qualitative content analysis2
Assessment of ethical sensitivity in nursing students: Tools, trends, and implications2
Written and computer simulation on the moral sensitivity of nurses2
Nurses’ justifications for morally courageous acts in ethical conflicts: A narrative inquiry2
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients?2
Decision-making process regarding passive euthanasia: Theory of planned behavior framework2
Residents’ experiences of paternalism in nursing homes2
Psychometric testing of the nurses professional values scale-revised on family and community health nurses2
Resilience, compassion fatigue, moral distress and moral injury of nurses2
Establishing a trusting nurse-immigrant mother relationship in the neonatal unit2
Organ Donation and Transplantation Coordinators' Experience and needs for ethics education2
Nurses’ priority-setting for older nursing home residents during COVID-192
Ethics positions of nursing students in clinical decision-making2
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