OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nursing Ethics is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	55
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	47
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	41
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	39
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	34
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	34
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	32
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	29
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review	28
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	27
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	27
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	26
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	26
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	24
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	22
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	21
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	21
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	21
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	21
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	21
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	20
Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	19
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	19
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	19

Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	19
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	19
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	18
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	18
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	17
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	16
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	16
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	16
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	16
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	16
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	15
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation	15
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	15
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	15
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	15
Editorial	15
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	14
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	14
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	13
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	13
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	13
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	13
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	13
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	12
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	12
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	12
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	11
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	11
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	11
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	11
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	11
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	11
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	10
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	10
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	10
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	10
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	10

Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	10
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	10
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	9
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	9
Ethical aspects of professional migration	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	9
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	9
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	9
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership	9
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	8
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	8
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	8
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	8
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	8
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	8
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	8
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	8
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	8
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	8
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	8
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	8
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	7
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	7
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	7
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	7
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	7
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	7
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	7
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	7
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	7
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	7
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	7
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	7
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	7
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	7
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	7
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	6
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	6
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	6
Critical care nurses’ experiences on dishonesty: A qualitative content analysis	6
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	6
Beyond compassion fatigue, compassion as a virtue	6
Psychiatric nurses’ experience of moral distress: Its relationship with empowerment and coping	6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	6
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	6
Nursing students’ movement toward becoming a professional caring nurse	6
Reflections on the 20th International Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society Conference: A nursing ethics perspective	6
Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study	6
Examining moral injury in clinical practice: A narrative literature review	6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
Impact of Education on Student Nurses' Advocacy and Ethical Sensitivity	6
Older patients’ perspectives on illness and healthcare during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Beyond the consult question: Nurse ethicists as architects of moral spaces	6