Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	71
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	57
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	53
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	48
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	39
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	39
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	37
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	33
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	31
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	30
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	30
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	28
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	25
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profiel analysis	24
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	23
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	23
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	22
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	22
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	22
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	22
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	21
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	21
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	20
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	20
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	20

Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	19
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	19
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	19
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	19
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	19
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	19
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	18
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	18
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	18
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	17
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	17
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	17
When machines explain medicine: Nursing ethics and clinical communication	17
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	16
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	16
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	16
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	16
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	16
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	16
Editorial	16
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	16
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	15
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	15
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	15
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	15
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	15
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	15
On the verge of suicide from a suffering perspective	15
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	14
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	14
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	14
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	14
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	13
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	13
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	13
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	13
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	13
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	13
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	13
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	13
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	13
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	12
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	12
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	12
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	12
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	12

Ethical aspects of professional migration	12
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	12
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	11
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	11
Sense of coherence, resilience, and end-of-life attitudes in critical care	11
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	11
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of ethics of teaching in nursing education	11
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	11
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	11
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	11
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	11
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	11
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	10
Reviewer List	10
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	10
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	10
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	10
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	10
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	10
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	10
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	10
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	10
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	9
Clinical ethics consultants competencies repertoire: A qualitative study	9
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	9
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	9
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	9
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	9
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	8
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	8
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	8
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	8
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	8
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	8
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	8
The weight of witness: Ethical issues in organ procurement	8
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	8
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	8
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	8
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	8
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	8
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	7
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	7
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	7
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	7
Exploring conscientious stress and objection among women’s health nurses and midwives	7
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	7
Nurses’ Experiences Following Disaster: Moral Distress and Relational Loss	7
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	7
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethic s”	7
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	7
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6

Intergenerational views on humanoid nurse robots in general wards, obstetrics and neonatal units	6
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2022	6
A survey of ethical sensitivity among nursing students and its influencing factors	6
Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system	6
Medication refusal in residential aged care homes: A qualitative exploratory study	6
Ethical challenges among registered dietitians in oral nutritional supplement prescription	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Empathy and ethical sensitivity among intensive and critical care nurses: A path analysis	6
Conscientious pause and harmony in nursing practice: A narrative analysis	6
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care	6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	6
Multiperspective interpretative phenomenological analysis of dignity in people with neurodegenerative diseases	6
Nurses navigating moral distress, resilience, and team dynamics: A literature review	6
The relationship between emotional labor level and moral distress	6
Ethical decision-making of military nurses during war and humanitarian crises	6
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	6
Nurses' perspectives on compassion fatigue, burnout and moral injury in war zone hospitals	6
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	6
Barriers and facilitators to compassionate care from the perspective of healthcare providers: A systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	6
Effectiveness of active learning methods in nursing ethics education: A quasi-experimental study	6
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	6
Reflexive moralization: The crucial role of clinician moral well-being	6
Upholding ethical pillars in nursing academia	6
Influences on ambulance staff’s understandings and safeguarding of ethical values	6
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study	6
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	6
Moral distress in long-term care questionnaire modification and psychometric evaluation	6
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	6
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity	6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	6
Providing compassionate care via eHealth	5
Ambulance clinicians’ responsibility when encountering patients in a suicidal process	5
Health and social care workers’ professional values: A cross-sectional study	5
Unethical conduct as a multifaceted phenomenon in psychiatric care: Nurse leaders’ perspectives	5
Experiences of dialogue in advance care planning educational programs	5
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation	5
Educational programmes improving nurses' ethical competence: A scoping review	5
Interventions to improve ethical decision-making skills in nursing students: A systematic review	5
Innovative care models: Expanding nurses’ and optometrists’ roles in ophthalmology	5
Nursing care in assisted dying: Plasticity and relational commitment	5
The nurses’ perception of the factors influencing professional misconduct: A qualitative study	5
Hospital ethical climate mediates moral sensitivity and ethical decision-making ability	5
Virtuous leadership bridging ethical ideology and nurses’ patient safety advocacy	5
E-walks bring ethics to the bedside: A nurse ethicist’s reflections	5
Moral distress and patients who forego care due to cost	5
Moral distress, moral resilience, and job embeddedness among pediatric nurses	5
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	5
The ethics of intimacy and sexuality of older adults living in nursing homes: A systematic review of argument-based literature	5
Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care	5
Psychiatric nurses’ perception of dignity in patients who attempted suicide	5
Young adult perspectives on dignity in mental healthcare	5
Navigating institutional cracks: Ethical dilemmas and resilience in narrative nursing practice	5
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	5
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	5
Emergency department crowding: An examination of older adults and vulnerability	5
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	5
The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis	5
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review	4
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends	4
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	4
Factors influencing ethical decision-making in nursing: A mixed-methods systematic review	4
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	4
On the frontlines of healthcare: Experiences, challenges, and ethical dilemmas during war	4
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics	4
“Moral spaces”: A feasibility study to build nurses’ ethical confidence and competence	4
A human right to assisted dying? Autonomy, dignity, and exceptions to the right to life	4
Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews	4
Recruiting participants for palliative care research: A reflective discussion paper	4
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care	4
Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders’ views	4
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory	4
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia	4
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?	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
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research	4
Citations for the human rights and nursing awards 2025	4
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes	4
Student reflections on the 2024 nursing ethics conference: ‘Ethics, care and the workforce crisis’ – At Brunel University of London	4
Nursing students’ perceptions following the enactment of the Spanish Euthanasia Law	4
Professionals' perspectives as they negotiate dedication to vulnerable patients and burnout	4
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study	4
Internationally educated nurses’ experiences of recruitment - An ethical perspective	4
Ethical issues in nursing care for older adults in community settings: A scoping review	4
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	4
Moral distress among acute mental health nurses: A systematic review	4
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	4
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity	4
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study	4
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	4
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat	4
Big Five personality traits and ethical decision-making among nurses	4
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 2024	4