OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nursing Ethics is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	30
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	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
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	22
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
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
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 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
On the verge of suicide from a suffering perspective	15
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
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
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
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
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	11
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
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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