Assignment Task:
Academic success and professional development plan part: Strategies to promote academic integrity and professional ethics.
To Prepare:
Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Week in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.
Part, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity.
Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Week 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, 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:
- academic work as a student of the MSN or PMC program and
- 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.
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Resources:
American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).
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 ability. Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 855-866.
Glasper, A. (2016). Does cheating by students undermine the integrity of the nursing profession? British Journal of Nursing
NLN Ethical Principles for Nursing Education. (2012). Nursing Education Perspective, 33(1), 65.
Walden University Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). ASC success strategies: Plagiarism.
Walden Office of Student Affairs. (n.d.). SafeAssign tutorials
Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). APA style: Overview
Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). APA style: APA basics checklist
Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.) Grammarly: Overview
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