The journal's editor is Ann Gallagher (University of Surrey).

Nursing Ethics is an academic journal which analyses official documents and publishes articles on ethical and legal issues within the Nursing field.

The journal aims to relate each topic to the working environment with a practical approach.

Nursing Ethics is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor is 1.957, ranking it 21 out of 118 journals in the category "Nursing (SSCI)"[1] and 40 out of 106 in "Nursing (SCI)".