NURS 6003 Week 3 Academic and Professional Integrity
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Identify APA formatting rules (Q)
- Analyze the relationship between academic integrity and writing (A)
- Analyze the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics (A)
- Analyze strategies for maintaining integrity and ethics in academic work (A)
- Analyze strategies for maintaining integrity and ethics in professional work (A)
- Analyze how paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity (A)
Learning Resources
- American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only
- American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
- Chapter 6, “The Mechanics of Style”
- Chapter 8, “Works Credited in the Text”
- Section 8.2, “Plagiarism”
- Section 8.3, “Self-Plagiarism”
- Paraphrases and Quotations
- Alba, B. (2018). Factors that impact on emergency nurses’ ethical decision-making ability. Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 855–866. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016674769
- Document: Citing a Discussion Posting in APA Style (PDF)
- Document: Citing a Laureate Video in APA Style (PDF)
- Document: Common APA Style and Formatting Challenges (PDF)
- Document: Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity (PDF)
Optional Resources
Quiz: APA Style and Format
As a nurse embarking on an advanced degree, you are developing the characteristics of a scholar-practitioner, which includes strong communication skills. Writing in a scholarly manner involves supporting your thoughts with evidence from the literature and appropriately using APA formatting.
One of the challenges of scholarly writing is paraphrasing the thoughts of others in your work. Paraphrasing, and correctly citing the original author for his or her ideas, allows you to take the ideas of others, summarize them, and incorporate them into your own writing. When summarizing the ideas of others, it is important to avoid plagiarizing (copying the words and ideas of others as though they were your own). In addition to expanding your knowledge of APA, this week’s Resources help you to distinguish between paraphrasing and plagiarizing.
This Quiz will help you determine how well you understand these concepts and how prepared you are to reflect them in your work. The questions presented on the quiz are derived from the Learning Resources related to APA writing standards, plagiarism, and academic integrity.
To Prepare:
- Review the Resources related to APA style and format presented to you this week.
Click on the Week 3 Quiz link to begin.
By Day 7
Complete the quiz. Note: To view the questions you answered correctly and incorrectly, click on your score in the My Grades area.
Submission and Grading Information
