OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nursing Ethics is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Nursing ethics and the perspectivity of nursing: Response to ‘30 years of nursing ethics’	68
Relational vulnerability and technological mediation: The ethics of intelligent eldercare	54
Family Systems Care ‒ Expert consensus on ethics behind committed practice	49
Do ethical views of end-of-life patients’ family members impact organ donation decisions?	45
Reflections on the 2025 Nursing Ethics Conference in Turku, Finland	39
Public health nurses’ professional dignity: An interview study in Finland	37
Applicants' success in the ethics entrance exam: A cross-sectional study	34
Physician-nurse collaboration in the relationship between professional autonomy and practice behaviors	34
A typology of nurses' interaction with relatives in emergency situations	33
Categories and Influencing factors of critical care nurses' compassion fatigue: A latent profiel analysis	30
Conceptual framework for the ethical climate in health professionals	30
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	29
Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders’ perspective	26
COVID-19 and nurses’ ethical issues: Comparisons between two European countries	25
Nurses’ unprofessional behavior on patient care—A scoping review	23
Relationship between nurses’ ethical ideology, professional values, and clinical accountability	23
Truth-telling, and ethical considerations in terminal care: an Eastern perspective	23
Midwifery students’ experiences: Violations of dignity during childbirth	22
The dynamic relationship between ethical leadership and nurses’ innovative behavior	22
Moral injury and mental health outcomes in nurses: A systematic review	22
Co-production as a resolution to authoritarian attitudes in healthcare	21
Moral injury among psychiatric nurses: Experiences and contributing factors	21
Informed consent prior to nursing care: Nurses’ use of information	21
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	21
Interventions for the promotion of the ethical environment among health professionals: Scoping review	20

Patient’s sexual dignity discomfort in healthcare setting: A concept development	20
Linking ethical leadership to nurses’ internal whistleblowing through psychological safety	19
Nurses and misinformation: A matter of trust	19
Racism during clinical placement, the perpetrators, impact, advocating and reporting	19
Moral courage of nursing: Bibliometric analysis	19
Paradoxes, nurses’ roles and Medical Assistance in Dying: A grounded theory	18
The moral dilemma of obstetric violence: A meta-synthesis	18
Moral distress among critical care nurses before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	17
Nurses’ strategies for maintaining the privacy of children with cancer	17
Ethical issues in research with second victims: A scoping review	17
Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines – A scoping review	17
Intensive care unit professionals’ responses to a new moral conflict assessment tool: A qualitative study	17
Moral distress to moral success: Strategies to decrease moral distress	17
Surface and deep causes of moral distress: A qualitative study among healthcare professionals	16
Nurses who kill: Opportunity, organisational failure or an evil individual?	16
Patient privacy protection among university nursing students: A cross-sectional study	16
Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics	16
Editorial	16
Nurses’ moral suffering, burnout and turnover intentions: A two-wave study	16
Ethical competence in nursing: A theoretical definition	15
Navigating discriminatory requests and refusals of healthcare workers: A Canadian-based inpatient hospital algorithm	15
Investigating compassion fatigue and predictive factors in paediatric surgery nurses	15
Nurses’ implementation of humanistic care: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies	15
Navigating digital ethics: Experiences of nurse digital content creators	15
Ethical and relational injustice in health care for people experiencing homelessness	15
Value pluralism about sexual intimacy in residential care	15
Transparency and Authority Concerns with Using AI to Make Ethical Recommendations in Clinical Settings	14
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing	14
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles	14
Care leaders safeguarding the rights of care home residents during COVID-19: Moral failures offering moral lessons	14
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Unveiling the burden of compassion fatigue in nurses	14
The scope of ethical dilemmas in paediatric nursing: a survey of nurses from a tertiary paediatric centre in Australia	14
Quality improvement in palliative care: A review of the ethics	14
NICU nurses' moral distress surrounding the deaths of infants	14
Factors affecting the formation of nurses’ moral sensitivity in cardiopulmonary resuscitation settings: A qualitative study	14
Nursing professions’ distinctive ethical standards: Exploring a code of ethics	13
Critical care nurse leaders’ moral distress: A qualitative descriptive study	13
Futile therapeutic nursing interventions in adult intensive care: A descriptive study	13
Post COVID-19 workplace ostracism and counterproductive behaviors: Moral leadership	13
Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care	13
Respectful care of newborns after childbirth globally: a systematic review	13
An umbilical cord around women’s necks	13
Labouring women perspectives on mistreatment during childbirth: a qualitative study	12
Clinical internship environment and caring behaviours among nursing students: A moderated mediation model	12
Ethical aspects of professional migration	12
Patient privacy investigation in the emergency departments in teaching hospitals	12
Public health nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography	12
Care leaders’ moral distress in older adult care: A scoping review	12
Ethical climate in healthcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12

Nursing students’ attitude toward euthanasia following its legalization in Spain	12
Stress of conscience in healthcare in turbulent times: A longitudinal study	12
Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis	12
Special issue: Cultivating character for care	12
Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education	12
Blurred lines: Ethical challenges related to autonomy in home-based care	12
Physiotherapists’ moral distress: Mixed-method study reveals new insights	12
Truth-telling to the seriously ill child – Nurses’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs	12
Coping strategies of intensive care unit nurses reducing moral distress: A content analysis study	11
Factors influencing healthcare professionals’ moral distress: A descriptive qualitative analysis	11
A systematic review and meta-synthesis of ethics of teaching in nursing education	11
Perceived compassionate care and preoperative anxiety in hospitalized patients	11
Withdrawal: Explaining the concept of moral resilience among intensive care unit nurses	11
Ethical challenges in organ transplants for refugees in a healthcare system	11
Integrity links ethics and efficiency in nursing leadership: Nurse leaders’ views	11
Operationalizing the role of the nurse ethicist: More than a job	11
Prioritization decision-making of care in nursing homes: A qualitative study	11
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A qualitative systematic review	11
Informed consent and obstetric violence: Women’s experiences of childbirth	11
Managerial ethical principles and behaviours for nurse managers: A Delphi method	11
Alleviating suffering of individuals with multimorbidity and complex needs: A descriptive qualitative study	10
ICU nurses’ maintaining dignity among older patients: A mixed methods study	10
Ethical challenges nurses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: Scoping review	10
Effect of digital storytelling-case studies patient privacy: A randomized controlled study	10
Nurses on the outside, problems on the inside! The duty of nurses to support unions	10
Ethical reflections of healthcare staff on ‘consentless measures’ in somatic care: A qualitative study	10
Moral distress and nursing competence: The mediating role of moral sensitivity and ethical climate	10
Associations between self-compassion and moral injury among healthcare workers: A cross-sectional study	10
Ethical challenges in caring for healthy older adults: Qualitative perspectives	10
Barriers to maintaining dignity for patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study	10
Lived experience of ethical challenges among undergraduate nursing students during their clinical learning	10
Reviewer List	10
The professional guest: Ethical challenges in home-based end-of-life care among interprofessional teams	9
Moral distress among nurse leaders: A conceptual framework	9
Charting new territories: Emerging domains of nursing jurisprudence research	9
Ethical analysis of community-based dementia screening for unhoused older adults	9
Towards democratic institutions: Tronto’s care ethics inspiring nursing actions in intensive care	9
Ethical climate and turnover intention among nurses: A scoping review	9
Nursing possessed: An ethics of nurse haunting	9
Latent profiles of ethical climate and nurses’ service behavior	9
Ethical aspects of staff responses when older people with dementia express false beliefs	9
Educational needs of midwifery students in medical ethics: A qualitative study	9
The meaning of respect and dignity for intensive care unit patients: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research	9
Concept synthesis of ethical resilience in nurses	9
Nursing vaccine mandates: Ethically justified, an infringement on autonomy, or both?	9
Multi-professional perspectives to reduce moral distress: A qualitative investigation	9
An interview study on socially assistive robots and professional care relationships	8
Navigating ethics: Nurses’ experiences with hospital information systems in the digital age	8
Systematic review of ethical issues in perinatal mental health research	8
Impacts of ethical climate and ethical sensitivity on caring efficacy	8
Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study	8
Deconstructing nursing vocation: Ethical and cultural perspectives	8
Nursing leadership and artificial intelligence ethics: Safeguarding relationships and values	8
Exploring the concept of non-violent resistance amongst healthcare workers	8
Understanding lived experiences of nurse managers about managerial ethics	8
Views, attitudes, and reported practices of nephrology nurses regarding shared decision-making in end-of-life care	8
Advance directives need full legal status in persons with dementia	8
A caring-perception model for ethical competence in virtual reality environment	8
Telecare legislation priorities: A Delphi study grounded in ethical challenges	8
How paediatric nurses frame the ethics of non-disclosure directives	8
Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature	8
Nurses’ adherence to ethical principles – A qualitative study	8
The role of moral integrity in the association between moral self and moral sensitivity among nurses: A mediation model	8
The implicit ethical values in nurse educator stories	8
Compassion fatigue and moral sensitivity in midwives in COVID-19	8
Nurses’ perceived authentic leadership and moral courage: The mediating role of psychological safety	8