Academic Dishonesty

Academic Dishonesty
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Several articles highlight the growing concern about academic cheating in nursing practice .Balik, Sharon, Kelishek and Tabak, talks about how academic cheating in nursing student practices and how students future practice after graduation can be predicted. In a research conducted the findings indicate that there is the tendency to see academic dishonesty as a normal occurrence; the most commonly committed act is plagiarism. The research found out that there are correlations between personal characteristics and attitude towards cheating. Some of the recommendations from the research include raising awareness about the growing problem and its future implication. To institute policies that promoted integrity and also establish policies regarding penalties to deter students and other staff from dishonesty.
Stonecypher and Pamela Wilson are in agreement that there need nursing practice to conduct further research on academic cheating as it is becoming a growing concern . Nursing profession needs to develop policies that can guide implementation of specific cheating deterrent strategies. Stonecypher and Pamela Wilson makes these conclusions after reviewing six databases using various terms related to nursing practice and more than 28,000 publications based on the US higher education and nursing integrity. Some of the publication talked about student misconduct, nursing cheating nursing policy, and nursing integrity. However, there were no comprehensive faculty practices found in the reviewed literature based on academic nursing practice. This is in contrast with the increasing concerns of academic dishonesty in the nursing profession. to be able to understand the nature and factors that contributes to such unethical concerns further research will offer insights on how to curb this vice .
The same view is shared by Rebecca LaDuke in her article; reiterate the need for nursing profession to a comprehensive research on academic cheating to raise aware to educators. Academic cheating is unethical behaviors in nursing profession as it might affect registered nurses in future. Rebecca reviewed recent publications on various topics related to academic dishonesty including unethical professional practices. According to Rebecca there is a correlation between dishonesty and future unethical professional practices based on various literatures retrieved using keywords like dishonesty, cheating at the workplace and unethical behavior. 16 research articles reviewed indicate that other professions like engineering and business have conducted comprehensive research related to dishonesty compared to the nursing profession.
Rebecca also shares the same sentiments like other scholars advocating for more research in nursing profession in relation to academic cheating. In her view cheating is becoming a serious problem that might affect students at their future workplaces.
Chun-Hua and Chyan expresses the growing concern of academic dishonesty among college student has become rampant, therefore, should not be underestimated because student decisions to cheat will affect their future outcomes especially in workplaces. To prove this the article present the findings of a recent research ...