Nursing Ethics

Nursing Ethics is the peer-reviewed journal of nursing ethics. Founded by Verena Tschudin in 1994 and published by Edward Arnold from launch, the journal carries empirical, philosophical, and case-based work in nursing ethics across clinical practice, research ethics, professional regulation, and nursing education.

Editorial scope covers the ethical issues that arise in everyday nursing practice (informed consent, capacity assessment, dignity in care, end-of-life decision-making, advocacy for vulnerable patients), the ethics of nursing research (consent in vulnerable populations, the use of qualitative methods, research integrity), professional regulation and the moral identity of the nursing profession, nursing-ethics education, and the wider philosophical literature on care ethics, virtue ethics, and bioethics as it applies to nursing.

Verena Tschudin's editorial direction established the journal as the leading international venue for nursing-ethics scholarship and the journal has continued in that role across the transition to SAGE Publications in the 2006 Hodder Arnold journal-list sale and through subsequent editorial leadership changes.