Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	75
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	63
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	61
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	56
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	41
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	34
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	33
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	32
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	32
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	29
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	29
Impact of ethical dilemmas in midwifery practice: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	27
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	27
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	26
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	26
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	26
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	26
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	25
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profile analysis	25
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	24
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	24
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	23
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	23
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	23

Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	23
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	22
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	22
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	22
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	21
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	21
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	21
When machines explain medicine: Nursing ethics and clinical communication	21
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	20
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	20
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	19
Editorial	19
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	19
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	19
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	18
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	18
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	18
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	18
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	18
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	18
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	18
On the verge of suicide from a suffering perspective	18
How cultural humility and ethical sensitivity shape ethical decision-making competence	17
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	17
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	17
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	16
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	16
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	16
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	15
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	15
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	15
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	15
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	15
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	15
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	14
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	14
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	14
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	14
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	14
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	14
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	13
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	13
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	13
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of ethics of teaching in nursing education	13
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	13
Finding voice: Grounded theory of dignity among psychiatric inpatients	13
Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	13

Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	13
Ethical aspects of professional migration	13
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	12
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	12
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	12
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	12
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Sense of coherence, resilience, and end-of-life attitudes in critical care	12
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	12
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	12
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	12
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	12
Reviewer List	12
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	12
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	11
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	11
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	11
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	11
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	11
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	11
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	11
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	11
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	11
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	11
Clinical ethics consultants competencies repertoire: A qualitative study	11
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	10
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	10
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	10
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	10
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	10
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	10
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	10
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	10
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	10
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	10
The weight of witness: Ethical issues in organ procurement	9
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	9
“They leave crying”: An exploration of moral distress in nurses facing workplace violence	9
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	9
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	9
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	9
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	9
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	9
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	9
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	9
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	9
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	9
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	8
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	8
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	8
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	8
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	8
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	8
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	8
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethic s”	8
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	8
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	7
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	7
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	7
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	7
‘“Ethics’ or “morality” in nursing’: A response to editorial by Igoumenidis and colleagues	7
Nurses’ Experiences Following Disaster: Moral Distress and Relational Loss	7
Nurses’ knowledge of research ethics committees: A cross-sectional study	7
Midwives preventing obstetric violence by facilitating respectful maternity care	7
Medication refusal in residential aged care homes: A qualitative exploratory study	7
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	7
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	7
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	7
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	7
Exploring conscientious stress and objection among women’s health nurses and midwives	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7

Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	7
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	7
Exploring ethical dilemmas in pediatric oncology nursing: A qualitative approach	7
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	7
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	7
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Multiperspective interpretative phenomenological analysis of dignity in people with neurodegenerative diseases	6
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2022	6
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis	6
Experiences and coping with financial toxicity among older cancer patients and caregivers: A qualitative study	6
Navigating institutional cracks: Ethical dilemmas and resilience in narrative nursing practice	6
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections	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
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation	6
Conscientious pause and harmony in nursing practice: A narrative analysis	6
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	6
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress	6
First national study on the ethical dimension of neonatal nursing	6
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care	6
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review	6
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs	6
Palliative care nursing and moral coherence: Early responses to MAiD as hastened death	6
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values	6
Ethical challenges among registered dietitians in oral nutritional supplement prescription	6
Nurses' perspectives on compassion fatigue, burnout and moral injury in war zone hospitals	6
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being	6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	6
Effectiveness of active learning methods in nursing ethics education: A quasi-experimental study	6
Educational programmes improving nurses' ethical competence: A scoping review	6
Playing through pain: Moral distress and nursing ethics in return-to-play decisions	6
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia	6
Barriers and facilitators to compassionate care from the perspective of healthcare providers: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Ethical decision-making of military nurses during war and humanitarian crises	6
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature	5
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process	5
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review	5
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide	5
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	5
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare	5
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study	5
Virtuous leadership bridging ethical ideology and nurses’ patient safety advocacy	5
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability	5
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study	5
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study	5
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost	5
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	5
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence	5
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses	5
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity	5
A qualitative study of moral distress among rural nurses	5
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability	5
Providing compassionate care via eHealth	5
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives	5
Young adult perspectives on dignity in mental healthcare	5
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	5
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors	5
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment	5
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology	5
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics	5
On the frontlines of healthcare: Experiences, challenges, and ethical dilemmas during war	5
The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis	5
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	5
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life	4
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia	4
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-19	4
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	4
Citations for the human rights and nursing awards 2025	4
Moral distress among acute mental health nurses: A systematic review	4
Nursing as social control: An ethical perspective on care in dystopian contexts	4
Factors influencing ethical decision-making in nursing: A mixed-methods systematic review	4
Authorship, moral responsibility, and generative AI in nursing	4
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	4
Nurse lecturers’ perceptions of their professional dignity: A phenomenological study	4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	4
Professionals' perspectives as they negotiate dedication to vulnerable patients and burnout	4
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care	4
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review	4
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes	4
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat	4
Internationally educated nurses’ experiences of recruitment - An ethical perspective	4
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research	4
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	4
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?	4
Big Five personality traits and ethical decision-making among nurses	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
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory	4
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends	4
Why children’s research assent matters: Exploring three dimensions of autonomy	3
Organ Donation and Transplantation Coordinators' Experience and needs for ethics education	3
A scoping review of the moral distress of military nurses in crisis military deployment	3