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 conducted at the University in north Taiwan. The results findings indicated that perceived behavioral control towards cheating and profession unethical beliefs impact greatly on the intention to cheat. The research included additional variable like unethical ideas related to the workplace to investigate first-year business students on job placement. Using a sample size of 215 students, the research found out that ethical behavior is influenced by peer ethical or unethical behavior. Also, school, teachers or supervisors play a significant role in affecting student's intention towards unethical behavior. The research recommends that there need to conduct series of ethics education especially during classroom discussion to reinforce and change the ethical standards in colleges.
In relation to these findings, Salisbury, Brown, Heyliger and Beale also analyze factors that increase the probability of students to cheat. By exploring the relation between dispositional traits and pharmacy student's attitudes towards cheating in university setting.
To determine some of the factor that is likely to increase the levels of cheating a simple survey was conducted using questionnaire targeting pharmacy students in the southern United States. The questionnaires included self-esteem, self-efficacy idealism, relativism, tolerance for peer cheating, detachment from the University and other demographic information. After analyzing the results the research found out that gender, the degree of idealism and the Machiavellian traits influenced students’ attitudes towards cheating. Age, grade point average, race, income and marital status did not affect student attitude towards cheating. However, idealism was inversely related to the likelihood of students to engage in cheating or tolerate cheating.
Harper indentified technology as one of the main contributors to academic dishonesty. According to Harper technology is more convenient, flexible and efficient for continuous education unfortunately academic dishonesty including plagiarism has shown a correlation between increased use of technology and poor nursing practices. Technology contributes greatly to future workplace dishonesty. Given this correlation between unethical classroom behaviour and unethical clinical behaviour ,efforts to curb academic dishonesty can help dispel professional misconduct in future using advanced technological strategies .A combined high-tech and low-tech methods may be used minimize unethical behaviour among students and other practicing professional nurses to maintain integrity in the nursing profession .
To prove the same Klocko examines how common academic dishonesty is .He explains how nursing education dishonesty behaviors occur in various setting like the classroom, virtual classroom, and clinical arena. Klocko states that clinical cheating behaviors are the most disturbing feature because this translates into harmful patient outcomes. He describes the scope of dishonest academic beh...