OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nursing Ethics is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	56
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	47
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	43
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	42
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	36
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	34
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	32
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	30
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	29
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	29
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	29
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	29
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	27
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	27
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	24
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	24
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	22
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	22
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	21
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	21
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	20
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	20
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	20
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	19

Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	19
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	19
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	18
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	17
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	17
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	17
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	17
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	17
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	17
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	16
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	16
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	16
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	15
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	15
Editorial	15
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	14
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	14
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	14
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	14
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	13
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	13
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	13
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	13
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	13
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	12
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	12
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	12
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	11
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	11
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	11
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	11
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	11
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	11
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	11
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	11
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	11
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	11
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	10
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	10

Special issue: Cultivating character for care	10
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	10
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	10
Ethical aspects of professional migration	10
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	10
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	9
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	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
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	9
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	8
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	8
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	8
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	8
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	8
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	8
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	8
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	8
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	8
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	8
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	7
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	7
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	7
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	7
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	7
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	7
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	7
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	7
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	7
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	6
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	6
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	6
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	6
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis	6
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model	6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	6
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	6
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	6
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	6
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	6