OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nursing Ethics is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion	196
Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-19	126
Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	104
Nurses' moral distress in end-of-life care: A qualitative study	46
Moral distress interventions: An integrative literature review	40
Ethical care during COVID-19 for care home residents with dementia	38
Nurses’ challenges, concerns and unfair requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak	31
Compassion fatigue as bruises in the soul: A qualitative study on nurses	31
Ethical climate and moral distress in paediatric oncology nursing	29
Dignity in nursing: A synthesis review of concept analysis studies	27
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors	27
Compassionate Nursing Care Model: Results from a grounded theory study	27
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses	26
The development of moral sensitivity of nursing students: A scoping review	26
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	25
Moral distress among nurses: A mixed-methods study	24
Ethical dilemmas faced by frontline support nurses fighting COVID-19	24
COVID-19 era healthcare ethics education: Cultivating educational and moral resilience	22
Visitor restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethical case study	21
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	20
Moral distress, moral courage, and career identity among nurses: A cross-sectional study	20
The effect of Covid-19 on ethical sensitivity	19
A critical incident study of ICU nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Ethical challenges in home-based care: A systematic literature review	19

The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis	18
Changes in empathy of nurses from 2009 to 2018: A cross-temporal meta-analysis	18
Nursing, advocacy and public policy	17
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study	17
Ethics simulation in nursing education: Nursing students' experiences	17
Trust, ethical climate and nurses’ turnover intention	17
Vulnerability: An integrative bioethics review and a proposed taxonomy	17
Medical assistance in dying legislation: Hospice palliative care providers’ perspectives	17
Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis	16
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	16
Older migrants’ experience of existential loneliness	16
Coping with moral distress on acute psychiatric wards: A qualitative study	15
The process of moral distress development: A virtue ethics perspective	15
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	14
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	14
School nurses’ engagement and care ethics in promoting adolescent health	14
Understanding the concept of compassion from the perspectives of nurses	14
The development of nurses’ foundational values	14
Workplace challenges and nurses recovered from COVID-19	13
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review	13
Examining the effect of moral resilience on moral distress	13
Ethical and culturally competent care of transgender patients: A scoping review	13
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	13
Intensified job demands, stress of conscience and nurses' experiences during organizational change	13
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	13
Ethical challenges and lack of ethical language in nurse leadership	13
Validation of the Dutch-language version of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale	13
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	13
The need for a unified ethical stance on child genital cutting	12
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	12
Experiences of critical care nurses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Conscience and conscientious objection in nursing: A personalist bioethics approach	11
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	11
Family witnessed resuscitation and invasive procedures: Patient and family opinions	11
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	11
Unprofessional conduct by nurses: A document analysis of disciplinary decisions	11
Assessment of ethical competence among clinical nurses in health facilities	11
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	11
Duty versus distributive justice during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Predatory nursing journals: A case study of author prevalence and characteristics	11
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	11
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	10
Tertiary hospital nurses’ ethical sensitivity and its influencing factors: A cross-sectional study	10
Factors influencing public health nurses’ ethical sensitivity during the pandemic	10
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	10
Nurses’ perception of workplace discrimination	10
Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of nursing students	10
A qualitative examination of graduating nurses’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic	10
Covid-19, ethical nursing management and codes of conduct: An analysis	10

A vulnerable journey towards professional empathy and moral courage	10
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	10
Dignity and attitudes to aging: A cross-sectional study of older adults	9
The influential factors in humanistic critical care nursing	9
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic	9
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	9
Whistle-blowers – morally courageous actors in health care?	8
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	8
Iatrogenic loneliness and loss of intimacy in residential care	8
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	8
Role of attitude in nurses’ responses to requests for assisted dying	8
Older adults` sense of dignity in digitally led healthcare	8
Opinions of nurses regarding Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide	8
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	8
The effect of attitude towards work on professional commitment	8
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity	8
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	8
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	8
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers	8
Moral distress in midwifery practice: A concept analysis	7
Wonder-inspired leadership: Cultivating ethical and phenomenon-led healthcare	7
Nurses’ ethical challenges when providing care in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Older patients’ autonomy when cared for at emergency departments	7
Caring for victims of child maltreatment: Pediatric nurses’ moral distress and burnout	7
Anticipated impacts of voluntary assisted dying legislation on nursing practice	7
Theory analysis of social justice in nursing: Applications to obstetric violence research	7
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	7
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	7
Moral distress, psychological capital, and burnout in registered nurses	7
Multi-professional ethical competence in healthcare – an ethical practice model	7
Predictors and consequences of moral distress in home-care nursing: A cross-sectional survey	6
Moral distress and spiritual/religious orientation: Moral agency, norms and resilience	6
Cyberbullying, student nurses’ ethical awareness and the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Relationships of individual and workplace characteristics With nurses’ moral resilience	6
Professional values in student nurse education: An integrative literature review	6
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review	6
The Surprise Question and Serious Illness Conversations: A pilot study	6
Hand hygiene monitoring technology: A descriptive study of ethics and acceptance in nursing	6
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation	6
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	6
Clinical ethics committees in nursing homes: what good can they do? Analysis of a single case consultation	6
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership	6
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	6
The moral experiences of children with osteogenesis imperfecta	6
Differences in advance care planning among nursing home care staff	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care	6
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	6
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia	5
Moral distress among critical care nurses: A cross-cultural comparison	5
Discovering dignity through experience: How nursing students discover the expression of dignity	5
Care ethics framework for midwifery practice: A scoping review	5
Profiling nursing students’ dishonest behaviour: Classroom versus clinical settings	5
Supporting diversity in person-centred care: The role of healthcare chaplains	5
Effect of ethical nurse leaders on subordinates during pandemics	5
An examination of the moral habitability of resource-constrained obstetrical settings	5
Pre-decision regret before transition of dependents with severe dementia to long-term care	5
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	5
Impact of profession and wards on moral distress in a community hospital	5
Supporting ethical end-of-life care during pandemic: Palliative care team perspectives	5
Conscientious objection to medical assistance in dying in rural/remote nursing	5
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	5
Nurses' professional commitment in COVID-19 crisis: A qualitative study	5
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	5
Relationship between nurses’ cultural competence and observance of ethical codes	5
Meanings of troubled conscience in nursing homes: nurses’ lived experience	5
Acknowledging caregivers’ vulnerability in the managment of challenging behaviours to reduce control measures in psychiatry	5
Clinician distress in seriously ill patient care: A dimensional analysis	5
Ethical challenges and nursing recruitment during COVID-19	5
Ethical decision-making confidence scale for nurse leaders: Psychometric evaluation	5
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	5