Academic Success and Professional Development Plan 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 erode quickly or worse.
Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignment asks you to consider these tools 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 Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
    Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.
The Assignment:
Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity
Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, 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.

Academic and Professional Integrity 2018 Laureate Education, Inc. 1 Academic and Professional Integrity Program Transcript NARRATOR: Builders often speak of the integrity of their structures, a reference to the soundness, strength, and stability of their finished products. Construction that lacks structural integrity is likely to quickly erode. Integrity is not only a concern for builders, but is noteworthy for all professionals. Given the nature of the work, professional integrity is a cornerstone of the nursing profession. As a student building a path to professional growth and development, developing academic integrity is a big step on that path, and develops practices that lead to professional integrity. Much like structural construction, academic and professional nursing efforts that lack integrity are likely to quickly erode. Researchers and practitioners use words, format, and technique, like builders use hammers, nails, and lumber. This is where integrity begins. Tools that can ensure academic integrity in relation to scholarly writing include Grammarly and SafeAssign. And of course, ethical behavior is the glue that binds the integrity of your efforts. By ensuring that your efforts have integrity, you’re making a significant commitment to delivering work that is sound and will stand for many years to come. Academic and Professional Integrity Content Attribution GettyLicense_478536966 Ridofranz / iStock/Getty Images Plus / Getty Images GettyLicense_92180619_h12 Chris Dapkins / DigitalVision / Getty Images GettyLicense_159627464 Image Source / Image Source / Getty Images GettyLicense_638646884 Cecilie_Arcurs / E+ / Getty Images GettyLicense_467597707_7 Squaredpixels / iStock/Getty Images Plus / Getty Images

The university Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Academic and Professional Integrity 2018 Laureate Education, Inc. 1 The university Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Academic and Professional Integrity Program Transcript FEMALE SPEAKER: The expectation for students at  University is that they will have high academic integrity. We take it very seriously because we think it’s very important. Academic and professional integrity for me are one and the same. I don’t think you can have one without the other. Nurses are a very trusted profession, and we are expected to have integrity. Integrity in the workplace of course means being honest, doing the best we can to provide the best possible care. The same thing applies in an academic setting. A student that has good academic integrity does their own work. And while you may collaborate in terms of discussion and sharing of ideas, you don’t share work. FEMALE SPEAKER: Academic integrity goes hand in hand with professional integrity. We wouldn’t do something in the professional realm in terms of taking notes from others or taking copyrighted information from others and making it our own. We shouldn’t be doing that in the academic setting either. FEMALE SPEAKER: Make sure you know how to properly cite if you are going to use a direct quote from somewhere, using the proper citation. And as a graduate student, I would actually recommend that you learn to use your own words because you are going to be an expert, and it’s much better to read from multiple sources and use your words to promote what idea you’re putting forth and give credit for the idea, but not the quote. FEMALE SPEAKER: A lot of times we paraphrase things. And sometimes we don’t take into context that perhaps we should cite something. Ask the question. There’s nothing wrong in asking. I would rather have students ask the question in terms of, do you think this is the approach that I should take? FEMALE SPEAKER: It is a huge component of what we do as nurses to be ethical and have integrity, knowing that we are doing the best for our patients every single day. FEMALE SPEAKER: You take an oath to do what’s right, to do what’s good, and to do no harm to your patients. And so you must have integrity to be a nurse. FEMALE SPEAKER: Honesty, trust, integrity– those are the essence of a nurse that anybody– when they think about nursing, that’s what they think about.