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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	74
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	63
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	55
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	54
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	41
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	39
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	32
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profiel analysis	32
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	31
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	31
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	26
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	26
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	25
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	25
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	24
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	24
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	23
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	23
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	23
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	23
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	23
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	23
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	22
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	22
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	22

Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	21
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	21
When machines explain medicine: Nursing ethics and clinical communication	21
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	20
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	20
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	20
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	19
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	19
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	18
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	18
Editorial	18
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	18
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	18
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	18
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	17
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	17
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	17
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	17
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	16
On the verge of suicide from a suffering perspective	16
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	16
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	16
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	16
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	15
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	15
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	15
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	15
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	15
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	15
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	14
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	14
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	14
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	14
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	14
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	14
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	13
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	13
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	13
Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	13
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	13
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	13
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	13
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	12

Ethical aspects of professional migration	12
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	12
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	12
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	11
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	11
Reviewer List	11
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	11
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	11
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	11
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	11
Finding voice: Grounded theory of dignity among psychiatric inpatients	11
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	11
Sense of coherence, resilience, and end-of-life attitudes in critical care	11
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	11
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	11
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	10
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	10
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	10
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	10
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	10
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	10
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	10
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	10
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	10
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	10
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	10
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	10
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	10
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	9
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	9
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	9
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	9
Clinical ethics consultants competencies repertoire: A qualitative study	9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	9
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	9
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	9
The weight of witness: Ethical issues in organ procurement	9
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	9
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	9
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	9
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Nurses’ Experiences Following Disaster: Moral Distress and Relational Loss	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	8
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	8
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	8
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	8
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	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
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	8
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	8
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	8
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	8
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	7
Medication refusal in residential aged care homes: A qualitative exploratory study	7
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	7
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	7
Professional identity and moral agency in palliative care: A review	7
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	7
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	7
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study	7
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethic s”	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	7
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	7
Moral distress: Exploring the experiences of rural clinic nurses	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Exploring conscientious stress and objection among women’s health nurses and midwives	7