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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-care strategies in response to nurses’ moral injury during COVID-19 pandemic	164
Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion	158
Ethical dilemmas, perceived risk, and motivation among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	131
Nurses’ ethical challenges caring for people with COVID-19: A qualitative study	119
Healthcare workers’ stress when caring for COVID-19 patients: An altruistic perspective	113
Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-19	107
Priority-setting dilemmas, moral distress and support experienced by nurses and physicians in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	87
Spirituality in nursing: A concept analysis	55
Moral distress: A concept clarification	48
Moral distress: Developing strategies from experience	48
Unmet care needs of older people: A scoping review	46
The meaning of dignity for older adults: A meta-synthesis	40
Nurses' moral distress in end-of-life care: A qualitative study	34
Ethical care during COVID-19 for care home residents with dementia	33
COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care: The moral failure to care and prepare	32
Older people’s perceived autonomy in residential care: An integrative review	32
Moral distress interventions: An integrative literature review	29
Self-care as an ethical obligation for nurses	29
Moral distress perspectives among interprofessional intensive care unit team members	29
Nurse managers’ perspectives on working with everyday ethics in long-term care	28
Ethical issues related to eHealth: An integrative review	26
Compassion fatigue as bruises in the soul: A qualitative study on nurses	26
Nurses’ challenges, concerns and unfair requirements during the COVID-19 outbreak	25
Ethical climate and moral distress in paediatric oncology nursing	24
Moral distress in emergency and critical care nurses: A metaethnography	24

Ethical conflicts in nursing: An interview study	23
Dignity in nursing: A synthesis review of concept analysis studies	22
Ethical conflicts in patient relationships: Experiences of ambulance nursing students	22
Safe and competent nursing care: An argument for a minimum standard?	22
COVID-19 era healthcare ethics education: Cultivating educational and moral resilience	22
Nursing care in mental health: Human rights and ethical issues	21
Moral sensitivity revisited	21
Compassionate Nursing Care Model: Results from a grounded theory study	21
Nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and related socio-demographic factors	20
Visitor restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethical case study	19
The development of moral sensitivity of nursing students: A scoping review	19
Newly graduated nurses’ experiences of horizontal violence	19
Personal values among undergraduate nursing students: A cross-sectional study	19
Effective interventions for reducing moral distress in critical care nurses	19
The effect of Covid-19 on ethical sensitivity	19
A critical incident study of ICU nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
“Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)”	18
Relational influences on experiences with assisted dying: A scoping review	18
Ethical dilemmas faced by frontline support nurses fighting COVID-19	18
Moral distress among nurses: A mixed-methods study	17
Ethical challenges in home-based care: A systematic literature review	17
Vulnerability: An integrative bioethics review and a proposed taxonomy	16
Analysis of graduating nursing students’ moral courage in six European countries	15
Ethics simulation in nursing education: Nursing students' experiences	15
Institutional betrayal in nursing: A concept analysis	15
Nurses’ experiences of ethical responsibilities of care during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
The inequity of conscientious objection: Refusal of emergency contraception	14
A systematic review of ethical and legal issues in elder care	14
Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study	14
Effects of using standardized patients on nursing students’ moral skills	14
The justification for strike action in healthcare: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis	13
Relational inquiry approach for developing deeper awareness of patient suffering	13
Older migrants’ experience of existential loneliness	13
Defining and characterising the nurse–patient relationship: A concept analysis	13
Differences in practice and preferences associated with truth-telling to cancer patients	13
Validation of the Dutch-language version of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale	13
Utilization and professionalism toward social media among undergraduate nursing students	13
Non-technical skills in operating room nursing: Ethical aspects	12
Medical assistance in dying legislation: Hospice palliative care providers’ perspectives	12
Media representations of nurses in the pandemic: Just doing our job?	12
Workplace challenges and nurses recovered from COVID-19	12
The process of moral distress development: A virtue ethics perspective	12
Trust, ethical climate and nurses’ turnover intention	12
Changes in empathy of nurses from 2009 to 2018: A cross-temporal meta-analysis	12
School nurses’ engagement and care ethics in promoting adolescent health	12
Giving nurses a voice during ethical conflict in the Intensive Care Unit	12
Crisis, ethical leadership and moral courage: Ethical climate during COVID-19	11
Nursing, advocacy and public policy	11
Predatory nursing journals: A case study of author prevalence and characteristics	11
Forced treatment and care in home-dwelling persons with dementia	11

Duty versus distributive justice during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The development of nurses’ foundational values	11
Ethical considerations in design and implementation of home-based smart care for dementia	11
Intensified job demands, stress of conscience and nurses' experiences during organizational change	11
Understanding the concept of compassion from the perspectives of nurses	10
Nursing and advocacy in health: An integrative review	10
Conscience and conscientious objection in nursing: A personalist bioethics approach	10
Treatment decision-making for older adults with cancer: A qualitative study	10
A qualitative examination of graduating nurses’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic	10
Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach	10
Coping with moral distress on acute psychiatric wards: A qualitative study	10
Moral dilemmas involving anthropological and ethical dimensions in healthcare curriculum	10
Spontaneous ethics in nurses’ willingness to work during a pandemic	10
The need for a unified ethical stance on child genital cutting	10
Experiences of critical care nurses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Factors Affecting Nurses’ Impact on Social Justice in the Health System	10
Ethics reflection groups for school nurses	10
Ethical and culturally competent care of transgender patients: A scoping review	9
Ethical issues in caring for COVID-patients: A view from Gaza	9
Factors influencing public health nurses’ ethical sensitivity during the pandemic	9
Unprofessional conduct by nurses: A document analysis of disciplinary decisions	9
Nurses’ experience of providing ethical care following an earthquake: A phenomenological study	9
Moral distress, moral courage, and career identity among nurses: A cross-sectional study	9
Factors affecting nursing error communication in intensive care units: A qualitative study	9
The role of nurses' professional values during the COVID-19 crisis	9
Caregiver decision-making concerning involuntary treatment in dementia care at home	9
Advance care planning in dementia care: Wants, beliefs, and insight	9
Double distress: women healthcare providers and moral distress during COVID-19	8
Tertiary hospital nurses’ ethical sensitivity and its influencing factors: A cross-sectional study	8
Managing ethical aspects of advance directives in emergency care services	8
It is possible to develop the professional values of nurses	8
Causes of the plagiarism: A grounded theory study	8
First generation immigrant and native nurses enacting good care in a nursing home	8
Family witnessed resuscitation and invasive procedures: Patient and family opinions	8
Moral distress and moral resilience of nurse managers	8
Ethical challenges and lack of ethical language in nurse leadership	8
Covid-19, ethical nursing management and codes of conduct: An analysis	8
Assessment of ethical competence among clinical nurses in health facilities	8
Examining the effect of moral resilience on moral distress	8
The summit of a moral pilgrimage: Confucianism on healthy ageing and social eldercare	7
Midwifery students’ reactions to ethical dilemmas encountered in outpatient clinics	7
Estimation of moral distress among nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Eastern perspectives on roles, responsibilities and filial piety: A case study	7
Conscience and conscientious objection: The midwife’s role in abortion services	7
Ethical Coffee Room: An international collaboration in learning ethics digitally	7
Solidarity and collectivism in the context of COVID-19	7
Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of nursing students	7
Ethical perspectives in communication in cancer care: An interpretative phenomenological study	7
Children’s informed signified and voluntary consent to heart surgery: Professionals’ practical perspectives	7