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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	52
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	51
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	37
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	35
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	34
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	34
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	32
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	32
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	30
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	26
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	26
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review	25
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	25
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	24
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	24
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	24
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers	23
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	23
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	22
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	22
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	21
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	20
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	19
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	19
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia	19

Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	19
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	17
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	17
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	17
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	16
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	16
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	16
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	15
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	15
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	15
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	15
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	15
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	14
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	14
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	14
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	13
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	13
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	13
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation	13
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	13
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	12
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	12
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	12
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	12
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	12
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	12
Editorial	12
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	12
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	11
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	11
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	11
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	11
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	11
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	11
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	11
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	11
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	10
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	10
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	10
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	10
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors	10

Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	10
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	9
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	9
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	9
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	9
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	9
Calling nurses to care for burn victims after color-dust explosion	9
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	9
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study	9
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Ethical aspects of professional migration	9
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	9
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	8
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	8
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	8
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	8
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	8
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	8
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	8
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	8
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	8
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	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	7
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	7
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	7
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	7
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	7
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	7
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership	7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	7
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	6
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	6
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	6
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	6
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	6
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	6
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	6
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	6
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	6
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	6
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	6