ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 2: 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 2, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1, 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.

· Use Grammarly and Turnitin to improve the product.

· Explain how Grammarly, Turnitin, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 2, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your:

1. academic work as 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.

Note:

 Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 

WEEKLY RESOURCES

Required readings

· American Nurses Association. (2015). 

Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statementsLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only

· American Psychological Association. (2020). 
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

· Chapter 1, “Scholarly Writing and Publishing Principles”

· Section 1.17, “Implications of Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism” (p. 21)

· Chapter 4, “Writing Style and Grammar”

· Chapter 8, “Works Credited in the Text”

· Section 8.2, “Plagiarism” (p. 254)

· Section 8.3, “Self-Plagiarism” (p. 256)

· Chapter 10, “Reference Examples”

· Alba, B. (2018). 

Factors that impact on emergency nurses’ ethical decision-making abilityLinks to an external site.
. 
Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 855–866. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016674769

· Glasper, A. (2016). 

Does cheating by students undermine the integrity of the nursing profession?Links to an external site.
 
British Journal of Nursing, 25(16), 932–933.

·

NLN Ethical Principles for Nursing EducationLinks to an external site.
. (2012). 
Nursing Education Perspective, 33(1), 65.

· Walden University Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). 

ASC success strategies: PlagiarismLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism

· Walden Office of Student Affairs. (n.d.). 

SafeAssign tutorialsLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/studentaffairs/academicintegrity/safe-assign-turn-it-in

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). 

APA style: OverviewLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). 

APA style: APA basics checklistLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved May 3, 2021, https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/checklist

· Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.)

Grammarly: OverviewLinks to an external site.
. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarly

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Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template

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Citing a Discussion Posting in APA Style

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Common APA Style and Formatting Challenges

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Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity

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