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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	53
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	53
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	38
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	37
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	35
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	33
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	32
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	30
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	28
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	28
Ethical challenges in end-stage dementia: Perspectives of professionals and family care-givers	28
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	27
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	25
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	25
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	25
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	24
Professional codes of conduct: A scoping review	23
Care-deficits and polarization: Why the time is ripe for a universal care conscription	23
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	22
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	21
Comparison of attitude of nurses and nursing students toward euthanasia	21
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	21
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	19
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	19
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	19

Preserving client autonomy when guiding medicine taking in telehomecare: A conversation analytic case study	19
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	18
Does midwifery-led care demonstrate care ethics: A template analysis	18
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	18
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	17
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	17
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	16
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	16
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	16
Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	15
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	15
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	15
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	15
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	15
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	14
Nurses’ values on medical aid in dying: A qualitative analysis	14
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	14
Editorial	14
Reflections on a COVID death: Naming a family’s pain and reparation	14
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	14
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	14
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	13
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	13
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	13
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	13
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	13
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	12
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	12
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	12
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	12
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	12
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	12
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	12
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	12
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	12
Ethical dilemmas in nursing documentation	11
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	11
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	11
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors	11
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	11
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	10
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	10
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	10
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	10
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	10

Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	10
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	10
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	10
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	9
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study	9
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	9
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	9
Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	9
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	9
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	9
Ethical aspects of professional migration	9
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	9
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	9
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	9
Calling nurses to care for burn victims after color-dust explosion	9
Ethical conflict among critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	8
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	8
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
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	8
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	8
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	8
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	8
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	8
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	8
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	8
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	8
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	8
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	8
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	8
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	8
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	7
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	7
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	7
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	7
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	7
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	7
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	7
‘Blurred boundaries’: When nurses and midwives give anti-vaccination advice on Facebook	7
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	7
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	7
Missed nursing care and its relationship with perceived ethical leadership	7
Nurses as the leading fighters during the COVID-19 pandemic: Self-transcendence	7
Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study	7
Reimagining relationality for reproductive care: Understanding obstetric violence as “separation”	6
Culturally-sensitive moral distress experiences of intensive care nurses: A scoping review	6
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	6
PASTRY: A nursing-developed quality improvement initiative to combat moral distress	6
Responses to “Reflections on 30 Years of Nursing Ethics”	6
Ethical dilemmas and care actions in nurses providing palliative sedation	6
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	6
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	6
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	6
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	6
Ethical challenges as perceived by nurses in pediatric oncology units	6
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	6
Editorial & Perspectives on Assisted Dying	6
How does ethical leadership influence nurses’ job performance? Learning goal orientation as a mediator and co-worker support as a moderator	6
High-fidelity simulation training for improving nursing professional values acquisition	6
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	6
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	6
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	6
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	6
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	6
Am I my students’ nurse? Reflections on the nursing ethics of nursing education	6
Implications of assisted dying for nursing practice	6
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	6
Reflecting on ICU patient’s dignity using Taylor’s Emancipatory Reflection Model	6
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	6
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	6