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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors55
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study47
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries41
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland39
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability34
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?34
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review32
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals29
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review28
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective27
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers27
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’26
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations26
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective24
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription22
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth21
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study21
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice21
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information21
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic21
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety20
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives19
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study19
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare19
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-1919
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis19
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review19
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory18
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review18
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development17
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis16
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress16
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis16
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review16
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis16
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review15
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation15
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses15
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis15
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting15
Editorial15
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study14
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants14
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings13
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics13
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles13
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses13
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?13
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care12
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study12
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study12
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics12
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home11
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation11
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review11
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model11
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review11
An umbilical cord around women’s necks11
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia10
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care10
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis10
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics10
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs10
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job10
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study10
Special issue: Cultivating character for care10
Ethical aspects of professional migration9
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography9
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs9
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain9
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study9
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses9
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review8
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study8
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework8
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults8
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review8
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning8
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach8
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives8
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care8
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study8
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system8
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis8
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence7
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying7
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia7
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers7
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?7
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature7
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice7
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior7
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook7
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research7
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study7
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-196
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress6
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse6
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective6
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review6
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity6
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces6
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition6
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education6
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis6
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping6
Human rights and nutritional care in nurse education: lessons learned5
Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of nursing students5
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta5
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections5
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being5
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors5
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 20225
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination5
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity5
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs5
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic5
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia5
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis5
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model5
Clinician distress in seriously ill patient care: A dimensional analysis5
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values5
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review5
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis5
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation5
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses5
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study5
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system5
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care5
Ethical challenges among registered dietitians in oral nutritional supplement prescription5
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation5
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review5
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study5
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-195
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress5
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost5
Intergenerational views on humanoid nurse robots in general wards, obstetrics and neonatal units5
Admission to undergraduate nurse education programmes: Who should be selected?4
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability4
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study4
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention4
Redefining nursing solidarity4
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses4
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment4
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives4
Providing compassionate care via eHealth4
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature4
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses4
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide4
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process4
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia4
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients4
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology4
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-194
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence4
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study4
Impact of profession and wards on moral distress in a community hospital4
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care4
Virtuous nurses and the COVID-19 vaccine4
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference4
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care4
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare4
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research4
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability4
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience4
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
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review4
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-193
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends3
Student reflections on the 2024 nursing ethics conference: ‘Ethics, care and the workforce crisis’ – At Brunel University of London3
Educational approach for public health ethics in nursing: Focusing on COVID-193
Ethical considerations in the UK-Nepal nurse recruitment: Nepali nurses’ perspectives3
Ethical decision-making confidence scale for nurse leaders: Psychometric evaluation3
Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders’ views3
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review3
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care3
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care3
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics3
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review3
Internationally educated nurses’ experiences of recruitment - An ethical perspective3
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life3
Nurses’ involvement in end-of-life decisions in neonatal intensive care units3
Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews3
Effect of ethical nurse leaders on subordinates during pandemics3
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 20243
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat3
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?3
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents3
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity3
Big Five personality traits and ethical decision-making among nurses3
Coping strategies and interventions to alleviate moral distress among pediatric ICU nurses: A scoping review3
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients?3
30 Years of Nursing Ethics: Reflections on progress in the field3
Recruiting participants for palliative care research: A reflective discussion paper3
COVID-19-related anxieties: Impact on duty to care among nurses3
Thriving at work, career calling, and moral distress among nurses3
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study3
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes3
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory3
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