Question

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.

Answer 1

The honesty and ethical standards The honesty and ethical standards of nurses are consistently ranked among the highest of professions in nationwide public gallop polls.Nursing professional values which include respectfulness, responsiveness, compassion, trustworthiness and integrity. The value of integrity among nurses is evident in public polls, community expectations, and in professional codes of ethics. Nurses value honesty, integrity and professionalism, and therefore, nursing students preparing for this profession should equally value these qualities.

Cheating on exams,plagiarizing writing assignments, lying, inadequately preparing for clinical assignments and falsifying documentation in a patient's chart are described in the nursing literature, and depict behaviors that de- monstrate a lack of integrity in nursing students.Academic dishonesty is influenced by the student's desire to succeed, a lack of organizational skills, competition for grade dependent scholar- ships and awards, acceptance and assistance of cheating in the program of study, and the thrill of risk taking.

1) As a student of MSN program honesty,integrity and proffessionalism are important factors.This quality should be maintained in there works,jobs and daily activities.Unethical behaviours during student period will affect the integrity of the person in his/her proffession.Practised integrity and ethical behaviour will be helpful in the persons awareness to the value of integrity in practice, and the many situational challenges.

2)The professional nurse of today is required to demonstrate the knowledge, attitudes and skills associated with moral, ethical and legal behaviors as they provide care for patient populations.Integrity is conceptualized in the healthcare literature as professional conduct that demonstrates ethical behavior in the education and practice settings.Actions that are morally sound, and relate to the code of ethics, represent the values and guidelines of the profession of nursing, and are deemed professional

The approaches :

The ethical principles that nurses must adhere to are the principles of justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, accountability, fidelity, autonomy, and veracity. Justice is fairness. Nurses must be fair when they distribute care, for example, among the patients in the group of patients that they are taking care of.They need to consider the following in both as a student and proffessional:

• Informed consent
• Voluntary Participation
• Do not Harm
• Confidentiality
• Anonymity
• Only assess relevant components.