Homework: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan- 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 Homework asks you to consider these tools and how you might apply them to your own work.
In this Homework you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous homework.
To Prepare:
1) Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
2) Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.
Task:
Section I: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity
Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template, write a 2 to 3 paragraph analysis that includes the following:
1) Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
2) Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
3) Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
4) Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
5) Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.
Section II: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work
Expand on your thoughts from Section I 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.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.