Academic and Professional Integrity

Running Head: Academic and Professional Integrity
Assignment
Part 3, Section 1
Topic: Academic and Professional Integrity
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Academic Integrity refers to responsible and honest scholarship (Michigan State
University, 2019). It involves five basic values: Fairness, Trust, Honesty, Responsibility and
Respect in all the academic activities. The professional Integrity refers to the conduct or behavior
consistent with ethical and professional expectations of nursing role. Both these aspects are
interrelated. The professional expertise of nurses in their role depends largely on their academic
integrity at respective educational courses. Their academic integrity at nursing schools defines
whether they are fit for practice, fit for purpose and fit for academic award.
Academic Integrity is necessary in nursing profession for many reasons. It shows that the
others may trust you to act in a honest way. Academic integrity during the course work gives
value to the degree achieved. Also, Acting with academic integrity gives peace of mind to the
scholars, reduces unnecessary stress and makes them more productive.
This article describes the connection between academic integrity and writing in nursing.
Secondly, the article explains the relationship between professional practices and
scholarly ethics. Thirdly, it also explains how SafeAssign, Grammerly and
paraphrasing contribute to academic integrity.
Academic Integrity and Writing
The nursing students are supposed to submit their original work in their projects and
provide credit to the ideas of other people by citing resources. Academic Integrity in written
work involves expressing one’s original ideas, independently completing the assigned projects,
accurate reporting of findings, citing used resources and maintaining honest conduct during
examinations. The acts like plagiarism, cheating in coursework and exams, forging a tutor’s

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signature over the assessments and showing the other people’s work as your own are considered
as violation of the academic integrity (Glasper, 2016).
The factors influencing academic integrity include the pressure to achieve good marks
(84%), fear of losing the status among friends (71%), limited availability of time to study (74%)
and the incidents of successful cheating (71%) (Allen,Stanley, Cascoe & Stennett, 2017). The
engagement of nursing students in academic dishonesty has several implications for the nursing
profession as it depends largely on the moral integrity of nursing professionals. The after effect
of these malpractices violates the trust in this profession to care for the patients in an honest
manner and to value the life of humans. The nursing students who are academically dishonest are
mostly identified performing dishonest acts in their professional practice too. Such acts may
result into harmful patient outcomes (Allen et al., 2017).
Professional Practices and Scholarly Ethics
Ethical conduct is necessary in professional practice of nurses. It forms a basis for
identifying practically what motives, intentions and actions are valued in nursing profession. The
education about scholarly ethics in nursing courses provides a foundation for ability to address
ethical questions emerging in the patient-nurse relationships during professional practice. The
professional practice involves concerns like protecting the rights of patients, informed consent,
truth telling and informed decision making. Lack of scholarly ethics and related preparedness at
the graduate and undergraduate courses impede the ability of nurses to work in collaboration
with their teams at jobs. They are unable to take decisions when ethical problems confront them
in real time situations.