| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nurse Moral Distress: a proposed theory and research agenda | Nursing Ethics | 2002 | 535 |
| 2 | Nurse Moral Distress and Ethical Work Environment | Nursing Ethics | 2005 | 443 |
| 3 | Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Moral Distress and Ethical Climate | Nursing Ethics | 2009 | 298 |
| 4 | Moral Distress Reconsidered | Nursing Ethics | 2008 | 283 |
| 5 | Moral distress experienced by nurses | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 281 |
| 6 | Nurses' Moral Sensitivity and Hospital Ethical Climate: a Literature Review | Nursing Ethics | 2008 | 261 |
| 7 | Moral distress in nursing | Nursing Ethics | 2013 | 240 |
| 8 | Developing the Concept of Moral Sensitivity in Health Care Practice | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 228 |
| 9 | Ethical and Methodological Issues in Interviewing Persons With Dementia | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 225 |
| 10 | Moral distress | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 217 |
| 11 | What is ‘moral distress’? A narrative synthesis of the literature | Nursing Ethics | 2019 | 202 |
| 12 | Burnout in palliative care: A systematic review | Nursing Ethics | 2011 | 196 |
| 13 | Moral stress, moral climate and moral sensitivity among psychiatric professionals | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 194 |
| 14 | Moral Stress: synthesis of a concept | Nursing Ethics | 2003 | 188 |
| 15 | Exploring the Moral Distress of Registered Nurses | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 186 |
| 16 | Views on Dignity of Elderly Nursing Home Residents | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 173 |
| 17 | Self-care strategies in response to nurses’ moral injury during COVID-19 pandemic | Nursing Ethics | 2021 | 170 |
| 18 | Consequences of clinical situations that cause critical care nurses to experience moral distress | Nursing Ethics | 2012 | 164 |
| 19 | Nurses' Professional and Personal Values | Nursing Ethics | 2008 | 159 |
| 20 | Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion | Nursing Ethics | 2021 | 159 |
| 21 | Relationship between ethical work climate and nurses’ perception of organizational support, commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intent | Nursing Ethics | 2017 | 156 |
| 22 | Dignity and Respect for Dignity - Two Key Health Professional Values: implications for nursing Practice | Nursing Ethics | 2004 | 155 |
| 23 | Conditions for Patient Participation and Non-Participation in Health Care | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 148 |
| 24 | A multidimensional analysis of ethical climate, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors | Nursing Ethics | 2012 | 148 |
| 25 | Trust in nurse–patient relationships | Nursing Ethics | 2013 | 140 |
| 26 | Truth-Telling in Clinical Practice and the Arguments for and Against: a review of the literature | Nursing Ethics | 2004 | 139 |
| 27 | Development and Initial Validation of the Stress of Conscience Questionnaire | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 138 |
| 28 | Relationship between ICU nurses’ moral distress with burnout and anticipated turnover | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 137 |
| 29 | Ethical dilemmas, perceived risk, and motivation among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic | Nursing Ethics | 2021 | 137 |
| 30 | The relationship of ethics education to moral sensitivity and moral reasoning skills of nursing students | Nursing Ethics | 2012 | 134 |
| 31 | Factors Predicting Nurses' Consideration of Leaving their Job During the Sars Outbreak | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 132 |
| 32 | Moral distress in critical care nursing: The state of the science | Nursing Ethics | 2018 | 131 |
| 33 | Nurses’ ethical challenges caring for people with COVID-19: A qualitative study | Nursing Ethics | 2021 | 127 |
| 34 | Compassion fatigue in healthcare providers: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Nursing Ethics | 2020 | 125 |
| 35 | Nurses’ Ethical Conflicts: what is really known about them? | Nursing Ethics | 2000 | 124 |
| 36 | Cancer Patients’ Views and Experiences of Participation in Care and Decision Making | Nursing Ethics | 2001 | 124 |
| 37 | What Matters to the Parents? a qualitative study of parents’ experiences with life-and-death decisions concerning their premature infants | Nursing Ethics | 2002 | 123 |
| 38 | Nurses’ perceptions of and responses to morally distressing situations | Nursing Ethics | 2012 | 123 |
| 39 | Moral distress experienced by psychiatric nurses in Japan | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 122 |
| 40 | Codes and Declarations | Nursing Ethics | 2002 | 118 |
| 41 | The Value of Nursing: a Literature Review | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 118 |
| 42 | Healthcare workers’ stress when caring for COVID-19 patients: An altruistic perspective | Nursing Ethics | 2020 | 118 |
| 43 | Measuring Moral Distress in Pharmacy and Clinical Practice | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 114 |
| 44 | Consent and Assent to Participate in Research from People with Dementia | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 113 |
| 45 | Dignity of older people in a nursing home: Narratives of care providers | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 110 |
| 46 | A comparison of problem-based learning and conventional teaching in nursing ethics education | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 108 |
| 47 | Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-19 | Nursing Ethics | 2021 | 107 |
| 48 | Professional values, job satisfaction, career development, and intent to stay | Nursing Ethics | 2017 | 105 |
| 49 | Perception of ethical climate and its relationship to nurses’ demographic characteristics and job satisfaction | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 103 |
| 50 | Toward interventions to address moral distress | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 103 |
