Perceptions of Academic Integrity Among Nursing Students

Abstract

We recommend fostering culture change through strategies that target students, faculty, and systems. These strategies include peer mentoring, role modeling integrity, enhancing awareness of what constitutes cheating, and developing policies that promote honesty.

Academic dishonesty among Italian nursing students: A longitudinal study

“…The review of the literature has revealed that academic dishonesty is a complex and wide-spread phenomenon that also reachesinto the context of the nursing formation. This phenomenon is a source of worry for the scientificnursing community because of the positive correlation that has emerged betweenacademic misbehaviours and future ethical professional behaviour (Nonis and Swift, 2001;Kenny, 2007;Woith et al, 2012). …”

“…Nevertheless, more recentstudies have established that academic dishonesty is now also a common phenomenon among student nurses (Bailey, 2001;Brown, 2002;McCabe, 2009;Krueger,2014;Stonecypher&Willson, 2014).The importance of these studies for nursing resides in determining the potential risk of dragging unethicalbehavior acted out in class into clinical practice, creating a threat tothe safety and wellbeing of the patients (Bailey, 2001;Woith et al, 2012;Krueger, 2014).…”

“…The risk of expandingdishonestacademic behaviours intopost-degreeclinical practice is deeply worrisome to educators (Woith et al, 2012;Nick& Llaguno,2015).Indeed,many studies show that nursing students whohave cheated in class are highly likely to manipulate the clinical data in their future positions,as compared with those who do notcheat (Gaberson, 1997;Harding et al, 2004;Harper, 2006;Park, 2013;.Other studies by Kenny (2007) Laduke (2013)and Krueger (2014),have found a strong correlation betweencheatingand unethical professional behavior, in particular a positive relationship was found between the frequency of cheating in classroom and clinical settings. Insupport of this finding, according to some authors, the greatest predictor of dishonesty in clinical settings consists of havingalready cheated during classroom exams (Park, 2014).…”

Using an innovative journal club strategy to teach civility to nursing students: Lessons learned

“…In a pilot study, Jenkins and colleagues reported students identified overtly rude behaviors among their peers, such as eye-rolling, snickering, and talking while others were speaking [3] . Students have also described an atmosphere of academic competition in which peers refused to help others study and intentionally provided them with erroneous information [14] . Incivility is a significant problem in clinical settings as well; students have reported being ignored and treated unfairly by hospital nurses [15] .…”

Improving knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the nursing faculty members and postgraduate students towards plagiarism in academic writing

“…[8,9] Particularly, nursing professors are in charge of spreading and preserving the standards of research ethics as the nonfulfillment of these standards may have pernicious consequences on patients' lives. [10] There is an urgent need to identify the knowledge and attitudes of researchers towards plagiarism and scientific misconduct, [11] while plagiarism will never be vanquished until the institutional control is required to reduce it. [12] Additionally, academic misconduct in the scientific nursing researches can seriously harm the people's life and health, so it needs a great accountability.…”