PART 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work Expand on your thoughts from Part 1 by: Identifying and describe strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your 1) academic work while a student of the MSN program and 2) 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.

Answer:

As a student in the MSN program, I have to maintain high levels of integrity and ethics in both my academic work and professional work. Keeping one’s word and doing one’s best are two ways to act with integrity and honesty. Building trusting relationships with others is essential for success in this line of work, so we should always do what we say we will do.

In addition, Grammarly, Turnitin, and other paraphrasers are only two of several options for ensuring that students’ work is presented as their own and can be used to demonstrate its originality (Brown et al., 2019). Such websites serve as plagiarism checkers and are essential in limiting misconduct and unethical actions in academic writing.

Upholding one’s moral principles is essential in a nurse’s professional role. Nurses should put in their utmost effort to provide patients with the highest quality care possible. Better patient outcomes will result from caregivers who are trustworthy and who prioritize patient safety. Another approach to implementing this principle in nursing is to be courteous and helpful to everyone, regardless of their background or ability level (Haar et al., 2020).

Treating your superiors, colleagues, and patients with the same respect will demonstrate your honesty and professionalism. Being truthful to yourself and other people is essential. Lastly, nurses should not take the chance of lying just because they are afraid the audience will not appreciate the truth, as this is considered unethical.

References

Bloomfield, J. G., Crawford, T., & Fisher, M. (2021). Registered nurses understanding of academic honesty and the perceived relationship to professional conduct: Findings from a cross-sectional survey conducted in Southeast Asia. Nurse Education Today, 100, 104794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104794

Brown, T., Bourke-Taylor, H., Isbel, S., Gustafsson, L., McKinstry, C., Logan, A., & Etherington, J. (2019). Establishing similarities and differences among the self-reported academic integrity of Australian occupational therapy undergraduate and graduate-entry Master’s students. The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy, 7(3), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.1558

Haahr, A., Norlyk, A., Martinsen, B., & Dreyer, P. (2020). Nurses experiences of ethical dilemmas: A review. Nursing Ethics, 27(1), 258–272. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733019832941