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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	65
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	50
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	50
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	47
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	43
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	40
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	40
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	39
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	33
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	33
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	33
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	32
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	31
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	31
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	28
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	27
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	26
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	25
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	24
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	24
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	24
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	23
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	23
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	23
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	23

Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	22
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	21
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	20
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	20
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	20
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	19
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	19
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	19
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	18
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	18
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	17
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	17
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	16
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	16
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	16
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	16
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	16
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	16
Editorial	15
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	15
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	15
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	15
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	15
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	14
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	14
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	14
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	14
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	13
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	13
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	13
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	13
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	12
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	12
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	12
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	12
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	12
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	12
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	11
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	11
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	11

Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	11
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	11
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	11
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	11
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	10
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	10
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	10
Ethical aspects of professional migration	10
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	9
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	9
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	9
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	9
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	9
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	9
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	9
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	9
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	8
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	8
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	8
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	8
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	8
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	8
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	8
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	8
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	8
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	8
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	7
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	7
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	7
Prerequisites for ethical leadership in health and social care: Integrative review	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	7
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	7
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	7
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	7
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	7
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	7
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	7
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	7
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	7
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	7
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	7
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7