ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 2: STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics
Ethical conduct is essential at all levels of academic and professional conduct. Adherence to the required conduct ensures that nursing students and practitioners are free from ethical malpractice. The purpose of this section is to analyze the connection between integrity, professional practices, and scholarly ethics.
Part 1: The Connection between Academic and Professional Integrity
Explanation for the Relationship between Academic Integrity and Writing
Nursing students utilize many sources to expand their knowledge. Common sources include books, journal articles, and government/organizational publications. Academic integrity is characterized by honesty in a student’s work (writing). As a result, adherence to the established academic integrity principles requires students to acknowledge ideas from the authors of various resources (Darr, 2019). A suitable example of this adherence is citing and referencing books and journal articles a student uses to complete an assignment.
Explanation for the Relationship between Professional Practices and Scholarly Ethics
Nurses influence practice change by implementing scientific research in nursing practice. Combined with clinical expertise and patients values and preferences, scientific research forms the foundation of evidence-based practice (Li et al., 2019). Consequently, scientific (scholarly) sources should be ethical to influence the desired professional practice. Scholarly ethics is characterized by accuracy, honesty, and clarity (adequately researched and clear) of ideas.
Contribution of Grammarly, Turnitin, and Paraphrasing to Academic Integrity
Grammarly helps nursing professionals and other scholars to correct mistakes in their work. Besides, it has an option for checking plagiarism. Scholars primarily use Turnitin to ensure that the work submitted for research or classroom assignments is plagiarism-free. Paraphrasing is the art of rewriting other researchers’ ideas using their own words (Darr, 2019). Jointly, these scholarly tools and techniques promote academic integrity by enhancing the correctness of information and ensuring that it has not been previously submitted as someone’s else work.
Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity at Work
Academic Work as a Student of the MSN Program
An effective strategy for maintaining integrity at work as a student is observing all the academic guidelines related to assignments and research. As Perkins et al. (2020) noted, plagiarism denotes academic dishonesty, which must be avoided by all permissible means. As a result, I will ensure that all my assignments are plagiarism-free and have been paraphrased appropriately. Information sourced from other scholars should be cited and referenced accordingly.
Professional Work as a Nurse
To pursue integrity and ethics as a nurse throughout my career, I will adhere to the established ethical principles of nursing practice. For instance, nurses are obliged to provide safe and quality care and advocate for patient needs (Nsiah et al., 2019). Providing such care requires compassion, credibility, and trust between patients and providers. Besides, I will adhere to organizational and governmental policies regulating workplace conduct and general nursing conduct.
Resources and Approaches to Use as a Student and a Professional
As a student, essential tools include writing support tools such as Grammarly, Turnitin, and SafeAssign. They will ensure that I produce original content and do not breach any academic ethics principle. The most reliable approaches are information paraphrasing and crediting outside sources. As a nursing professional, the same tools and approaches will be vital since I will still be conducting research and disseminating information to various organizations. Always, I will be guided by the professional code of ethics for nurses.
Conclusion
Integrity and ethics are mandatory as a student and professional. As a result, nursing students should know what ethical conduct entails for students and professionals. In this section, I have explained the relationship between academic integrity and professional ethics. I have also explained the resources and strategies I will use to pursue integrity and ethics in academics and nursing practice.
References
Darr, T. (2019). Combating plagiarism: a hands-on guide for librarians, teachers, and students. ABC-CLIO.
Li, S., Cao, M., & Zhu, X. (2019). Evidence-based practice: Knowledge, attitudes, implementation, facilitators, and barriers among community nurses-systematic review. Medicine, 98(39), e17209. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.000000000001720
Nsiah, C., Siakwa, M., & Ninnoni, J. P. K. (2019). Registered Nurses’ description of patient advocacy in the clinical setting. Nursing Open, 6(3), 1124–1132. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.307
Perkins, M., Gezgin, U. B., & Roe, J. (2020). Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 16(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-020-00052-8
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Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Week 1, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:
- Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
- Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
- Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
- Use Grammarly and Turnitin to improve the product.
- Explain how Grammarly, Turnitin, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.
Part 2, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work
Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your:
- academic work as a student of the MSN program and
- professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.