Identifying and 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 review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional. NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.

Identifying and 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 review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional. NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.

There are several strategies that the MSN nursing student can use to maintain academic integrity and ethics during their study. The first thing is to make sure that they try as much as possible to always write what is originally a product of their own thoughts. This will score them better marks as a postgraduate student who is a critical thinker. But since it is almost impossible to operate as an academic island, the second strategy as an MSN student would be to make sure that you attribute any borrowed idea to the rightful owner. This is achieved by correctly citing sources and giving credit to the true owner or originator of a thought. As a professional nurse, the strategy to maintain integrity and ethics at the workplace is to always be truthful and forthright in dealing with patients and their loved ones. You should always be guided by the professional ethics of nursing and its code of conduct. The other strategy to do this is to always abide by the four bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. For instance, doing this will mean respecting the privacy of patient information as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA (CDC, 2018). Mishandling a patient’s information can result in damage to the patient’s reputation and other undesired consequences, the result of which will be that the patient suffers psychological harm. This will violate the ethical principle of nonmaleficence or primum non nocere, as stated above.

The resources and approaches to use to achieve academic integrity and maintain professional ethics in practice include the use of plagiarism checkers like SafeAssign and Grammarly, the nursing standards of practice, legislation such as HIPAA, and the nursing code of ethics.  In conclusion, therefore, a nursing student must start practicing academic integrity as a student as this will impact their later life as a nursing professional.

NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.