Nursing Ethics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nursing Ethics is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Humans: An integrative review exploring dehumanisation in advanced dementia138
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study50
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries47
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review35
Care and justice reasoning in nurses’ everyday ethics34
Corrigendum to “Ethical challenges and nursing recruitment during COVID-19”34
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence32
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals32
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland31
A qualitative examination of graduating nurses’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic29
Moral distress among critical care nurses: A cross-cultural comparison26
Ethics, care and climate change mitigation: A reflection on what care professionals can do25
Nurses' awareness and adherence with national ethical guidelines for research in North India25
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth25
Perspectives on the role of the nurse ethicist24
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior24
The patients’ lived experiences with equitable nursing care24
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective23
Moral courage, burnout, professional competence, and compassion fatigue among nurses23
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective20
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors20
Artificial intelligence and nursing: The good, the bad and the cautionary20
Digital ethical reflection in home nursing care: Nurse leaders’ and nurses’ experiences20
Valuing the individual – evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention20
A deliberative framework to assess the justifiability of strike action in healthcare20
Clinical Ethics Committee in an Oncological Research Hospital: two-years Report19
Is it ever ethical for nurses to lie to patients19
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers19
Bodily contrast experiences in cultivating character for care18
Right to health, autonomy, and access to prenatal services18
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook17
An ethnographic study to develop a taxonomy of lies for communicating with people with moderate to severe dementia17
Moral courage of master’s students of nursing during COVID-1916
Apprenticeships as pathway to care careers: Ethical challenges and opportunities for professions16
Clinical ethics committees in nursing homes: what good can they do? Analysis of a single case consultation15
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations15
The relationship between nurses’ moral courage and whistleblowing approaches15
The 25th International Nursing Ethics Conference15
Moral comfort and its influencing factors from intensive care unit nurses’ perspective14
The effect of role play prepared with video support on ethical decision-making and motivation levels of nursing students: A quasi-experimental study14
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’14
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics14
Moral resilience in registered nurses: Cultural adaption and validation study14
The influential factors in humanistic critical care nursing13
Values in a time of rules13
Redefining nursing solidarity13
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care13
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review13
Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents13
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review13
Trends in East Asian nurses recognizing ethical behavioral practices13
Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care12
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study12
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers12
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription12
Factors impacting the demonstration of relational autonomy in medical decision-making: A meta-synthesis12
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers12
Impact of interactive ethics education program on nurses’ moral sensitivity11
A human rights-based framework for qualitative dementia research11
Ethical analysis of the change of values in healthcare11
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight11
The growth of nursing professional values – A grounded theory11
Moral distress interventions: An integrative literature review11
Moral distress and clinical judgment among newly graduated nurses: A meta-ethnographic literature review11
Trust in healthcare professionals of people with chronic cardiovascular disease11
Professional responsibility, nurses, and conscientious objection: A framework for ethical evaluation10
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?10
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research10
The moral web of accessibility to medical assistance in dying: Reflections from the Canadian context10
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?10
Moral courage, job-esteem, and social responsibility in disaster relief nurses9
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic9
Who is essential in care? Reflections from the pandemic’s backstage9
Clinical nurse adherence to professional ethics: A grounded theory9
The effect of cognitive flexibility in nurses on attitudes to professional autonomy9
Pre-decision regret before transition of dependents with severe dementia to long-term care9
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model9
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”9
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study9
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability9
Relationship between nurses’ cultural competence and observance of ethical codes9
Moral sensitivity, moral courage, and ethical behaviour among clinical nurses9
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature9
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”8
Moral distress among acute mental health nurses: A systematic review8
Ethical considerations in evaluating discharge readiness from the intensive care unit8
Moral experiences in caring for voluntary pregnancy losses: A meta-ethnography8
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation8
Nurse ethicists: Innovative resource or ideological aspiration?8
Older patients’ autonomy when cared for at emergency departments8
Examining the effect of moral resilience on moral distress8
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting8
Professional values in student nurse education: An integrative literature review8
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress8
Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study8
The ethical dimensions of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in palliative care8
Dignity in people with dementia: A concept analysis8
Judith Butler’s theoretical perspectives within a nursing context—a scoping review8
Understanding moral distress in home-care nursing: An interview study7
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study7
A care ethics approach to a reduced ability to eat7
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia7
Is nursing ethics education in disarray?7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition7
Moral disengagement, moral identity, and counterproductive work behavior among emergency nurses7
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review7
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety7
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review7
Compassionate nursing in challenging contexts: The importance of judgments7
Developing an evidence-and ethics-informed intervention for moral distress7
Culture, ethics, and the conspiracy of friends6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator6
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”6
System-wide assessment using the Measure of Moral Distress – Healthcare professionals6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model6
Understanding nurses’ justification of restraint in a neurosurgical setting: A qualitative interview study6
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis6
Impact of moral resilience and interprofessional collaboration on nurses’ ethical competence6
The 24th international nursing ethics conference: Ethics, care and the workforce ‘crisis’; International, interprofessional and interdisciplinary perspectives6
CURA: A clinical ethics support instrument for caregivers in palliative care6
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-196
Perception and experience of altruism in graduate nursing students6
When law and ethics come apart: Constraints versus guidance6
Why we need to reconsider moral distress in nursing6
Postgraduate nursing students’ experiences of practicing ethical communication6
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review5
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-195
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education5
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory5
Culture of discrimination in healthcare: A grounded theory5
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development5
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories5
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia5
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice5
End-of-life care at home: Dignity of family caregivers5
Use and impact of the ANA Code: a scoping review5
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis5
Moral distress in midwifery practice: A concept analysis5
Factors influencing public health nurses’ ethical sensitivity during the pandemic5
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment5
The development of nurses’ foundational values5
COVID-19 guidelines and media influenced ethical care in nursing homes5
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives5
Does fear of compassion effect nurses’ caring behaviours? a cross-sectional study5
Cyberethics in nursing education: Ethical implications of artificial intelligence5
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information5
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses5
Two cases of nursing older nursing home residents during COVID-195
Opinions of nurses regarding Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide5
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying5
Coping with moral distress on acute psychiatric wards: A qualitative study4
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study4
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis4
Ethical conflicts experienced by community nurses: A qualitative study4
Ethical challenges experienced by care home staff during COVID-19 pandemic4
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses4
Working experience of nurse anesthetists with beneficence for patients4
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress4
Multidisciplinary support for ethics deliberations during the first COVID wave4
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics4
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse4
COVID-19-related anxieties: Impact on duty to care among nurses4
Nurses' professional commitment in COVID-19 crisis: A qualitative study4
Ethical decision-making confidence scale for nurse leaders: Psychometric evaluation4
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles4
Caring for family members following suicide: Professionals’ experiences of responsibility4
Moral distress, moral courage, and career identity among nurses: A cross-sectional study4
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis4
Ethical considerations in the UK-Nepal nurse recruitment: Nepali nurses’ perspectives4
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare4
Dignity of women with systemic lupus erythematosus: A qualitative study4
Ethical issues experienced by nurses during COVID-19 pandemic: Systematic review4
Editorial4
Dignity of Nursing Students in Clinical Learning Environments4
Ethical dilemmas faced by frontline support nurses fighting COVID-194
Moral distress in clinical research nurses4
Ethical dilemmas embedded in performing fieldwork with nurses in the ICU4
Moral resilience and intention to leave: Mediating effect of moral distress4
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy4
Nurses’ experiences of ethical and legal issues in post-resuscitation care: A qualitative content analysis3
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study3
Is deception defensible in dementia care? A care ethics perspective3
Effect of ethical nurse leaders on subordinates during pandemics3
Ethics, ageing and the practice of care: The need for a global and cross-cultural approach3
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings3
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study3
Unveiling nurses’ end-of-life care experiences: Moral distress and impacts3
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation3
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care3
Pandemic ethics and beyond: Creating space for virtues in the social professions3
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces3
Ethical challenges during critical phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interpretive synthesis3
Participatory management effects on nurses’ organizational support and moral distress3
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis3
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?3
Thriving at work, career calling, and moral distress among nurses3
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses3
Ethical Challenges to the Self-care of Nurses during the Covid-19 Pandemic3
Professional values and nursing care quality: A descriptive study3
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants3
Student reflections on the 2024 nursing ethics conference: ‘Ethics, care and the workforce crisis’ – At Brunel University of London3
The process of moral distress development: A virtue ethics perspective3
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia3
Citations for the Human Rights and Nursing Awards 20243
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic3
The contribution of the nursing profession to the establishment of social justice: A grounded theory study3
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review3
Ethics simulation in nursing education: Nursing students' experiences3
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units3
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference in Kuwait: A nursing ethics perspective3
Health advocacy and moral distress among nurses in organ transplant units3
Clinical empathy in a medium and high-risk Brazilian unit3
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping3
Gerontechnologies, ethics, and care phases: Secondary analysis of qualitative interviews3
Effectiveness of CURA: Healthcare professionals’ moral resilience and moral competences3
Moral distress among undergraduate nursing students in clinical practice: A scoping review2
Midwives’ experience of respectful maternity care (RMC) globally: A meta-synthesis2
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Stimulating ambulance specialist nurse students’ ethical reflections by high-fidelity simulation2
Moral foundations, moral emotions, and moral distress in NICU nurses2
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care2
Organ Donation and Transplantation Coordinators' Experience and needs for ethics education2
Threats to the dignity of COVID-19 patients: A qualitative study2
Midwifery students' experiences of support for ethical competence2
Coping strategies and interventions to alleviate moral distress among pediatric ICU nurses: A scoping review2
Caregivers’ perception of teenagers’ dignity in end of life stages: A phenomenological study2
Trust-building interventions to home-dwelling persons with dementia who resist care2
Nurses’ ethical challenges when providing care in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study2
A descriptive and interpretive theory of ethical responsibility in public health nursing2
Older adults` sense of dignity in digitally led healthcare2
The effect of Covid-19 on ethical sensitivity2
Explaining the process of learning about dignity by undergraduate nursing students: A grounded theory study2
Palliative nurses’ experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity2
Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-192
Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders’ views2
Differences in advance care planning among nursing home care staff2
The duty to care and nurses’ well-being during a pandemic2
Theory analysis of social justice in nursing: Applications to obstetric violence research2
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study2
Critical care nurses’ experiences of ethical challenges in end-of-life care2
Ethics in undergraduate nursing degrees: An international comparative education study2
The relationship between nurses’ professional values and ethical attitudes to pain2
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors2
The value of nurse bioethicists2
Latent profile analysis of nurses’ moral courage: a professional values perspective2
Duty of care trumps utilitarianism in multi-professional obesity management decisions2
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