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 quickly erode…or worse.

Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignments asks you to consider these 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 week in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
Also reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Week 1 and continued working on in Week 2, write a 2- 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between academic integrity and writing.
Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics.
Accurately cite at least 2 resources that fully support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
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Clearly and accurately describe in detail how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity. Include sufficient evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were utilized to improve responses.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

Clearly identifying and accurately describing 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 clearly developed 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 Week 1 Assignment, which was built off the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

By Day 7

Submit both Section 1 and Section 2 of Part 3.

Remember to include an introduction paragraph which contains a clear and comprehensive purpose statement which delineates all required criteria, and end the assignment Part with a conclusion paragraph.

Solution:

Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity & Professional Ethics

The first section of part 3 will explain the relationship between academic integrity and writing; and professional practices and scholarly ethics. Part 2 will discuss the strategies for maintaining integrity and ethics in academic and professional work.

Part 1: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Relationship between academic integrity and writing.

As described by de Graaf (2019), academic integrity is one’s devotion and exhibition of moral and honest behavior in academics. The relevance of academic integrity at the university level can never be underestimated. It relates to crediting people when making use of their ideas through citation and referencing. Demonstrating academic integrity means that one can be trusted. Writing is one way in which academic integrity can be demonstrated. This includes answering discussion questions, assignments, and completing research papers. In writing, one must ensure the correct use of the writing style recommended e.g. APA style, correct paraphrasing, citations, quotations, and referencing. In academic writing, academic integrity is violated when one cheats, plagiarizes, misuses own scholarly work, provides false information, violates copyright, steals or damages property, misrepresents credentials, and alters institution documents (Bealle, 2017). Thus, students must practice high levels of integrity in academic writing.

Relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics

As described by Garza Mitchell and Parnther (2018), professional practices are conducts used to guide the expected behaviors of professionals in their work activities while scholarly ethics are the academic and moral integrity in academic work including course work, research…..Please click the icon below to purchase full answer $10