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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion	178
Self-care strategies in response to nurses’ moral injury during COVID-19 pandemic	177
Ethical dilemmas, perceived risk, and motivation among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	139
Nurses’ ethical challenges caring for people with COVID-19: A qualitative study	123
Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-19	118
Healthcare workers’ stress when caring for COVID-19 patients: An altruistic perspective	117
Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	94
Unmet care needs of older people: A scoping review	54
The meaning of dignity for older adults: A meta-synthesis	47
Nurses' moral distress in end-of-life care: A qualitative study	40
Older people’s perceived autonomy in residential care: An integrative review	39
Ethical care during COVID-19 for care home residents with dementia	37
COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care: The moral failure to care and prepare	32
Moral distress interventions: An integrative literature review	32
Self-care as an ethical obligation for nurses	31
Compassion fatigue as bruises in the soul: A qualitative study on nurses	29
Nurse managers’ perspectives on working with everyday ethics in long-term care	28
Nurses’ challenges, concerns and unfair requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak	28
Ethical issues related to eHealth: An integrative review	27
Moral distress in emergency and critical care nurses: A metaethnography	26
Nursing care in mental health: Human rights and ethical issues	25
Ethical climate and moral distress in paediatric oncology nursing	24
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses	23
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors	23
Compassionate Nursing Care Model: Results from a grounded theory study	23

Moral sensitivity revisited	23
Dignity in nursing: A synthesis review of concept analysis studies	23
Ethical conflicts in nursing: An interview study	23
Newly graduated nurses’ experiences of horizontal violence	22
COVID-19 era healthcare ethics education: Cultivating educational and moral resilience	22
The development of moral sensitivity of nursing students: A scoping review	22
Moral distress among nurses: A mixed-methods study	21
Ethical dilemmas faced by frontline support nurses fighting COVID-19	21
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	21
Visitor restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethical case study	20
Ethical challenges in home-based care: A systematic literature review	19
The effect of Covid-19 on ethical sensitivity	19
A critical incident study of ICU nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	17
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study	16
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis	16
Vulnerability: An integrative bioethics review and a proposed taxonomy	16
Older migrants’ experience of existential loneliness	15
Ethics simulation in nursing education: Nursing students' experiences	15
Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis	15
Analysis of graduating nursing students’ moral courage in six European countries	15
Giving nurses a voice during ethical conflict in the Intensive Care Unit	15
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Effects of using standardized patients on nursing students’ moral skills	15
Differences in practice and preferences associated with truth-telling to cancer patients	14
Utilization and professionalism toward social media among undergraduate nursing students	14
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	14
Trust, ethical climate and nurses’ turnover intention	14
Medical assistance in dying legislation: Hospice palliative care providers’ perspectives	14
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	13
Coping with moral distress on acute psychiatric wards: A qualitative study	13
Validation of the Dutch-language version of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale	13
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Workplace challenges and nurses recovered from COVID-19	13
Nursing, advocacy and public policy	13
School nurses’ engagement and care ethics in promoting adolescent health	13
Changes in empathy of nurses from 2009 to 2018: A cross-temporal meta-analysis	12
The process of moral distress development: A virtue ethics perspective	12
Understanding the concept of compassion from the perspectives of nurses	12
Intensified job demands, stress of conscience and nurses' experiences during organizational change	12
The development of nurses’ foundational values	12
Ethical and culturally competent care of transgender patients: A scoping review	12
Factors Affecting Nurses’ Impact on Social Justice in the Health System	12
Conscience and conscientious objection in nursing: A personalist bioethics approach	11
Duty versus distributive justice during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Moral distress, moral courage, and career identity among nurses: A cross-sectional study	11
Experiences of critical care nurses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The need for a unified ethical stance on child genital cutting	11
Predatory nursing journals: A case study of author prevalence and characteristics	11
Forced treatment and care in home-dwelling persons with dementia	11

Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review	11
Ethics reflection groups for school nurses	11
Family witnessed resuscitation and invasive procedures: Patient and family opinions	10
A qualitative examination of graduating nurses’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic	10
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	10
Treatment decision-making for older adults with cancer: A qualitative study	10
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	10
Factors affecting nursing error communication in intensive care units: A qualitative study	10
Assessment of ethical competence among clinical nurses in health facilities	10
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	10
Ethical challenges and lack of ethical language in nurse leadership	10
Unprofessional conduct by nurses: A document analysis of disciplinary decisions	10
Ethical issues in caring for COVID-patients: A view from Gaza	9
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	9
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	9
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	9
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	9
Factors influencing public health nurses’ ethical sensitivity during the pandemic	9
It is possible to develop the professional values of nurses	9
Causes of the plagiarism: A grounded theory study	9
Covid-19, ethical nursing management and codes of conduct: An analysis	9
Managing ethical aspects of advance directives in emergency care services	9
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	9
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	8
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination	8
Tertiary hospital nurses’ ethical sensitivity and its influencing factors: A cross-sectional study	8
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	8
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	8
A vulnerable journey towards professional empathy and moral courage	8
Examining the effect of moral resilience on moral distress	8
Opinions of nurses regarding Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide	8
Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of nursing students	8
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	8
Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying	7
Dignity and attitudes to aging: A cross-sectional study of older adults	7
Ethical Coffee Room: An international collaboration in learning ethics digitally	7
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	7
Conscience and conscientious objection: The midwife’s role in abortion services	7
Older adults` sense of dignity in digitally led healthcare	7
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	7
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	7
The summit of a moral pilgrimage: Confucianism on healthy ageing and social eldercare	7
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic	7
Eastern perspectives on roles, responsibilities and filial piety: A case study	7
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers	7
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	6
The effect of attitude towards work on professional commitment	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	6
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	6
Anticipated impacts of voluntary assisted dying legislation on nursing practice	6
Cyberbullying, student nurses’ ethical awareness and the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Ethical considerations regarding the inclusion of children in nursing research	6
Clinical ethics committees in nursing homes: what good can they do? Analysis of a single case consultation	6
Dignity of older home-dwelling women nearing end-of-life: Informal caregivers’ perception	6
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	6
Theory analysis of social justice in nursing: Applications to obstetric violence research	6
Iatrogenic loneliness and loss of intimacy in residential care	6
The influential factors in humanistic critical care nursing	6
The Surprise Question and Serious Illness Conversations: A pilot study	6