Nursing Ethics

Article	Citations
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	75
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	63
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	61
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	56
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	41
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	39
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	34
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	33
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	32
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	32
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	29
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	29
Impact of ethical dilemmas in midwifery practice: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	27
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	27
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	26
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	26
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	26
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	26
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profile analysis	25
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	25
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	24
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	24
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	23
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	23
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	23

Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	23
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	22
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	22
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	22
When machines explain medicine: Nursing ethics and clinical communication	21
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	21
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	21
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	21
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	20
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	20
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	19
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	19
Editorial	19
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	19
On the verge of suicide from a suffering perspective	18
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	18
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	18
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	18
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	18
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	18
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	18
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	18
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	17
How cultural humility and ethical sensitivity shape ethical decision-making competence	17
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	17
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	16
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	16
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	16
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	15
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	15
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	15
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	15
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	15
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	15
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	14
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	14
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	14
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	14
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	14
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	14
Ethical aspects of professional migration	13
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	13
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	13
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	13
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of ethics of teaching in nursing education	13
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	13
Finding voice: Grounded theory of dignity among psychiatric inpatients	13

Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	13
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	13
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	12
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	12
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	12
Reviewer List	12
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	12
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	12
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	12
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	12
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Sense of coherence, resilience, and end-of-life attitudes in critical care	12
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	12
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	12
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	11
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	11
Clinical ethics consultants competencies repertoire: A qualitative study	11
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	11
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	11
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	11
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	11
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	11
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	11
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	11
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	11
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	10
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	10
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	10
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	10
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	10
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	10
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	10
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	10
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	10
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	10
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	9
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	9
The weight of witness: Ethical issues in organ procurement	9
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	9
“They leave crying”: An exploration of moral distress in nurses facing workplace violence	9
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	9
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	9
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	9
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	9
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	9
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	9
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	9
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	8
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethic s”	8
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	8
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	8
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	8
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	8
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	8
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	8
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	7
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	7
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	7
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	7
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	7
‘“Ethics’ or “morality” in nursing’: A response to editorial by Igoumenidis and colleagues	7
Nurses’ Experiences Following Disaster: Moral Distress and Relational Loss	7
Nurses’ knowledge of research ethics committees: A cross-sectional study	7
Midwives preventing obstetric violence by facilitating respectful maternity care	7
Medication refusal in residential aged care homes: A qualitative exploratory study	7
Nurses’ simulation-based medical error experiences: A qualitative study	7
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	7

Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	7
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	7
Exploring conscientious stress and objection among women’s health nurses and midwives	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	7
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	7
Exploring ethical dilemmas in pediatric oncology nursing: A qualitative approach	7
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	7