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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral courage, burnout, professional competence, and compassion fatigue among nurses	133
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	44
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	40
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	34
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research	33
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics	31
Bodily contrast experiences in cultivating character for care	30
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	30
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia	29
Nurses' awareness and adherence with national ethical guidelines for research in North India	27
Perspectives on the role of the nurse ethicist	26
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	25
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	24
Relationship between nurses’ cultural competence and observance of ethical codes	24
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare	23
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	23
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	22
Trust in healthcare professionals of people with chronic cardiovascular disease	21
The influential factors in humanistic critical care nursing	20
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-19	20
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	20
Moral distress among critical care nurses: A cross-cultural comparison	20
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients	19
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	19
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers	18

Nurses’ perceptions about the dignity of intubated patients	18
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	18
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review	17
Corrigendum to “Ethical challenges and nursing recruitment during COVID-19”	17
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	17
Clinical ethics committees in nursing homes: what good can they do? Analysis of a single case consultation	16
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review	16
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	16
A qualitative examination of graduating nurses’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic	15
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents	15
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	15
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	14
The patients’ lived experiences with equitable nursing care	14
Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis	14
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	14
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study	13
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	13
Clinical Ethics Committee in an Oncological Research Hospital: two-years Report	13
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	13
Moral distress interventions: An integrative literature review	13
Redefining nursing solidarity	13
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	13
Moral courage, job-esteem, and social responsibility in disaster relief nurses	12
The relationship between nurses’ moral courage and whistleblowing approaches	12
Values in a time of rules	12
The effect of cognitive flexibility in nurses on attitudes to professional autonomy	12
Pre-decision regret before transition of dependents with severe dementia to long-term care	12
Right to health, autonomy, and access to prenatal services	12
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	12
Professional responsibility, nurses, and conscientious objection: A framework for ethical evaluation	11
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	11
The growth of nursing professional values – A grounded theory	11
Trends in East Asian nurses recognizing ethical behavioral practices	11
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention	11
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	11
Ethics, care and climate change mitigation: A reflection on what care professionals can do	11
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care	11
Artificial intelligence and nursing: The good, the bad and the cautionary	11
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	11
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	11
Factors impacting the demonstration of relational autonomy in medical decision-making: A meta-synthesis	11
The moral web of accessibility to medical assistance in dying: Reflections from the Canadian context	10
The effect of role play prepared with video support on ethical decision-making and motivation levels of nursing students: A quasi-experimental study	10
Apprenticeships as pathway to care careers: Ethical challenges and opportunities for professions	10
Who is essential in care? Reflections from the pandemic’s backstage	10
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	10
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	9
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	9
Opinions of nurses regarding Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide	9
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	9

The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference	9
Digital ethical reflection in home nursing care: Nurse leaders’ and nurses’ experiences	9
Moral sensitivity, moral courage, and ethical behaviour among clinical nurses	9
An ethnographic study to develop a taxonomy of lies for communicating with people with moderate to severe dementia	9
Moral distress in midwifery practice: A concept analysis	8
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care	8
Understanding moral distress in home-care nursing: An interview study	8
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	8
Perception and experience of altruism in graduate nursing students	8
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	8
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	8
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	8
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	8
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	8
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study	8
Understanding nurses’ justification of restraint in a neurosurgical setting: A qualitative interview study	7
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	7
Ethical considerations in evaluating discharge readiness from the intensive care unit	7
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	7
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	7
Two cases of nursing older nursing home residents during COVID-19	7
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	7
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	7
Examining the effect of moral resilience on moral distress	7
An examination of the moral habitability of resource-constrained obstetrical settings	7
The 24th international nursing ethics conference: Ethics, care and the workforce ‘crisis’; International, interprofessional and interdisciplinary perspectives	7
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes	6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	6
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends	6
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	6
Compassionate nursing in challenging contexts: The importance of judgments	6
Moral experiences in caring for voluntary pregnancy losses: A meta-ethnography	6
Nurse ethicists: Innovative resource or ideological aspiration?	6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	6
The development of nurses’ foundational values	6
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	6
Dignity in people with dementia: A concept analysis	6
Moral distress, moral courage, and career identity among nurses: A cross-sectional study	6
Impact of moral resilience and interprofessional collaboration on nurses’ ethical competence	6
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	6
Why we need to reconsider moral distress in nursing	6
Factors influencing public health nurses’ ethical sensitivity during the pandemic	6
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	6
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?	6
Moral distress among acute mental health nurses: A systematic review	5
Postgraduate nursing students’ experiences of practicing ethical communication	5
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	5
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	5
Cyberethics in nursing education: Ethical implications of artificial intelligence	5
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	5
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	5
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	5
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia	5
Moral resilience and intention to leave: Mediating effect of moral distress	5
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory	5
Professional values in student nurse education: An integrative literature review	5
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	5
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	5
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care	5
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat	5
Clinical nurse adherence to professional ethics: A grounded theory	5
When law and ethics come apart: Constraints versus guidance	5
End-of-life care at home: Dignity of family caregivers	5
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review	5
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	5
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	5
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	5
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	5
Older patients’ autonomy when cared for at emergency departments	5
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	5
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	5