Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	68
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	54
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	49
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	45
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	39
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	37
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	34
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	34
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	33
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profiel analysis	30
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	30
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	29
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	26
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	25
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	23
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	23
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	23
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	22
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	22
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	22
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	21
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	21
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	21
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	21
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	20

Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	20
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	19
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	19
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	19
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	18
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	18
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	17
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	17
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	17
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	17
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	17
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	17
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	16
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	16
Editorial	16
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	16
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	16
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	16
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	15
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	15
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	15
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	15
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	15
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	15
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	14
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	14
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	14
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	14
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	14
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	14
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	13
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	13
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	13
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	13
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	13
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	13
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	13
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	12
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	12
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	12
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	12

Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	12
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	12
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	12
Ethical aspects of professional migration	12
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	12
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	12
Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	11
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	11
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	11
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	11
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of ethics of teaching in nursing education	11
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	11
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	11
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	11
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	11
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	11
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	11
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	11
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	10
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	10
Reviewer List	10
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	10
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	10
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	10
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	10
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	10
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	10
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	10
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	10
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	10
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	9
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	9
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	9
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	9
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	9
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	8
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	8
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	8
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	8
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	8
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	8
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	8
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	8
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	8
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	8
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	8
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	8
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	8
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	7
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	7
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	7
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	7
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	7
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	7
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	7
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	7
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	7
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	7

Exploring conscientious stress and objection among women’s health nurses and midwives	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	7
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	7
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	7
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost	6
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being	6
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis	6
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity	6
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors	6
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation	6
Effectiveness of active learning methods in nursing ethics education: A quasi-experimental study	6
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs	6
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress	6
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections	6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care	6
Navigating institutional cracks: Ethical dilemmas and resilience in narrative nursing practice	6
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation	6
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system	6
Intergenerational views on humanoid nurse robots in general wards, obstetrics and neonatal units	6
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	6
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2022	6
Ethical challenges among registered dietitians in oral nutritional supplement prescription	6
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	6
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	6
Multiperspective interpretative phenomenological analysis of dignity in people with neurodegenerative diseases	6
Barriers and facilitators to compassionate care from the perspective of healthcare providers: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review	6
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study	6
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology	5
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review	5
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study	5
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia	5
Young adult perspectives on dignity in mental healthcare	5
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	5
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia	5
Nurse lecturers’ perceptions of their professional dignity: A phenomenological study	5
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability	5
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	5
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	5
Providing compassionate care via eHealth	5
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process	5
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives	5
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide	5
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care	5
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity	5
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics	5
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study	5
The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis	5
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability	5
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment	5
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses	5
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	5
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature	5
A qualitative study of moral distress among rural nurses	5
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	5
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	5
Virtuous leadership bridging ethical ideology and nurses’ patient safety advocacy	5
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence	5
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	4
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare	4
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-19	4
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life	4
Moral distress among acute mental health nurses: A systematic review	4
Nursing students’ perceptions of gender and race in AI healthcare imagery	4
Navigating ethical challenges in donation after circulatory death: Nurses’ perspectives	4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients?	4
Ethical considerations in the UK-Nepal nurse recruitment: Nepali nurses’ perspectives	4
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2024	4
Citations for the human rights and nursing awards 2025	4
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research	4
Ethical issues in nursing care for older adults in community settings: A scoping review	4
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study	4
Organ Donation and Transplantation Coordinators' Experience and needs for ethics education	4
Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders’ views	4
Value-conscious leadership actions in developing a health-promoting work environment	4
Nurses’ experiences of moral suffering: A qualitative interview study	4
Nursing students’ perceptions following the enactment of the Spanish Euthanasia Law	4
Student reflections on the 2024 nursing ethics conference: ‘Ethics, care and the workforce crisis’ – At Brunel University of London	4
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes	4
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends	4
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	4
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study	4
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care	4
Educational approach for public health ethics in nursing: Focusing on COVID-19	4
Thriving at work, career calling, and moral distress among nurses	4
Generative AI Ethics Toolkit for Clinical Prioritization in Nursing Education	4
Coping strategies and interventions to alleviate moral distress among pediatric ICU nurses: A scoping review	4
Recruiting participants for palliative care research: A reflective discussion paper	4
Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews	4