Part 3: Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics
Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to quickly erode…or worse.
Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignments asks you to consider these and how you might apply them to your own work.
In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.
To Prepare:
• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this week in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
• Also reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.
The Assignment:
The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity
write a 2- 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:
• Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between academic integrity and writing.
• Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics.
• Accurately cite at least 2 resources that fully support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product. y
Clearly and accurately describe in detail how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity. Include sufficient evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were utilized to improve responses.
Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work
Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:
• Clearly identifying and accurately describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your 1) academic work while a student of the MSN program, and 2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career.
• Include a clearly developed review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.
Required Readings
American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Chapter 1, “Writing for the Behavioral and Social Sciences”
Section 1.10, “Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism”
Chapter 4, “The Mechanics of Style”
Chapter 6, “Crediting Sources (Quoting and Paraphrasing)”
Section 6.01, “Plagiarism”
Section 6.02, “Self-Plagiarism”
Chapter 7, “Reference Examples”
Bahrieni, F., Azodi, P. Hajivandi, A. & Jahanpour, F. (2017). The effect of education in nurse’s moral sensitivity. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, 9(10), 1817–1821. Retrieved from http://jpsr.pharmainfo.in/Documents/Volumes/vol9Issue10/jpsr09101735.pdf
Glasper, A. (2016). Does cheating by students undermine the integrity of the nursing profession? British Journal of Nursing, 25(16), 932–933. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2016.25.16.932
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Hoskins, K., Grady, C. & Ulrich, C. (2018). Ethics education in nursing: Instruction for future generations of nurses. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 23(1). Retrieved from http://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-23-2018/No1-Jan-2018/Ethics-Education-in-Nursing.html
Walden University Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). ASC success strategies: Plagiarism. Retrieved October 12, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism
Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). APA style: Overview. Retrieved October 12, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa
Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.) Grammarly: Overview. Retrieved October 12, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarly