Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	68
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	51
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	48
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	48
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	42
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	40
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	36
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	35
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	33
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	33
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	32
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	31
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	30
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	29
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	29
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	26
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	25
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	25
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	24
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	23
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	23
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	21
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	21
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	21
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	21

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

Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	11
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	11
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	11
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Ethical aspects of professional migration	11
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	11
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	11
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	10
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	10
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	10
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	10
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	10
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	9
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	9
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	9
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	9
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	9
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	9
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	8
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	8
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	8
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	8
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	8
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	8
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	8
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	8
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	8
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	8
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	8
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	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
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	8
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	8
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	8
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	7
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	7
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	7
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	7
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	7
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	7
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	7
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	7
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	7
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	7
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6

Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	6
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation	6
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being	6
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	6
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	6
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model	6
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity	6
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2022	6
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis	6
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	6
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	6
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress	6
Effectiveness of active learning methods in nursing ethics education: A quasi-experimental study	6
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	6
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values	5
Multiperspective interpretative phenomenological analysis of dignity in people with neurodegenerative diseases	5
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity	5
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis	5
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	5
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment	5
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology	5
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation	5
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study	5
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	5
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review	5
Barriers and facilitators to compassionate care from the perspective of healthcare providers: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	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
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination	5
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	5
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives	5
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors	5
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	5
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia	5
Human rights and nutritional care in nurse education: lessons learned	5
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	5
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care	5
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic	5
Intergenerational views on humanoid nurse robots in general wards, obstetrics and neonatal units	5
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost	5
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs	5
Providing compassionate care via eHealth	5
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature	5
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study	5
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review	5
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system	5
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections	5
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide	4
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care	4
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care	4
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes	4
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat	4
Big Five personality traits and ethical decision-making among nurses	4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	4
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	4
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	4
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia	4
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability	4
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process	4
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability	4
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	4
Nurse lecturers’ perceptions of their professional dignity: A phenomenological study	4
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare	4
Internationally educated nurses’ experiences of recruitment - An ethical perspective	4
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review	4
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence	4
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends	4
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	4
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation 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
Admission to undergraduate nurse education programmes: Who should be selected?	4
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses	4
Young adult perspectives on dignity in mental healthcare	4
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study	4
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study	4
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?	4
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life	4
Factors influencing ethical decision-making in nursing: A mixed-methods systematic review	4
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses	4
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-19	4
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity	4
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research	4
Redefining nursing solidarity	4
Citations for the human rights and nursing awards 2025	4
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review	4
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care	4
Nurses’ justifications for morally courageous acts in ethical conflicts: A narrative inquiry	3
Nursing ethics as a distinct entity within bioethics: Implications for clinical ethics practice	3
Care shortages and duties to age abroad	3