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Legal Ethical Change Presentation

1. Legal/Ethical Change Presentation: Academic Integrity in Nursing Education Occasion: Master's Level Nursing Education Program Date: July 31, 2025

2. Learn the need for academic honesty in nursing. Identify the legal and ethical problems that are widespread in academic misconduct. Find out how patient safety and professional credibility are affected by academic dishonesty. Review ethical principles and codes of conduct, rules, and standards. Find out the evidence-based approaches to academic integrity encouragement. Discuss how diversity, equity, and inclusion provide an ethical learning environment. Discuss an example of a generic plan of change to enhance academic integrity. Describe how the success and sustainability of the proposed changes will be estimated. Presentation Objectives

3. Th e nursing profession is built on academic integrity. It guarantees competence, trustworthiness, and prowess. Breaches impair patient safety and trust toward the population. Nursing education should provide a great sense of ethical standing in the first place. This presentation deals with the imperative of strong integrity frameworks. Introduction to Academic Integrity in Nursing

4. D ishonesty is a long-standing issue in the nursing learning environment (Abbott & Nininger, 2020). It includes plagiarism, cheating, and reproduction of information. These acts may cause unsafe nursing practices in the clinical facilities. There is a high risk to the integrity of the nursing degree. Solving this problem is crucial in the production of competent and ethical nurses. The Problem: Academic Dishonesty in Nursing Education

5. A student enrolled in a nursing course is caught cheating in a noteworthy part of their capstone work. The faculty member is worried about the future of the student and chooses not to report it officially. Rather than taking disciplinary action, the faculty member provides a lower grade but no official disciplinary action. Such an informal approach circumvents institutional policies and any possible interventions. The student completes the program with no official declaration of scholarly malpractice. Case Scenario: Unreported Plagiarism

6. Legal and Ethical Ramifications of the Case 01. 02. 03. Legal: Failure to comply with institutional academic policies and potential breach of the FERPA that are not handled adequately (Francis, 2023). Ethical: Violates the concepts of equity to other students and degrades profe ssionalism. P rofessional: Endangers the safety of future patients in the event that the student has poor knowledge base or ethical reasoning. 04. 05. In stitutional: It establishes a dichotomy of the use of academic integrity policies. Faculty Acc ountability: This brings up the issue of compliance with the professional obligations of faculty members.

7. Inconsistently applied policies may disproportionately harm students of a particular group. Inability to be open in cases may contribute to a lack of trust between various student populations. The differences in cultural interpretation of plagiarism must be considered (Fields et al., 2022). Fair procedures are vital to all students regardless of their backgrounds. The DEI principles require all to have fair and transparent execution. Impact on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

8. Successful implementation is facilitated by the PARIHS framework (Bergström et al., 2020). Successful Implementation (SI) is a product of Evidence (E), Context (C), and Facilitation (F). E: Policies of acidic integrity councourse evidence. This framework provides a methodological process for effecting effective change. Active facilitation during leadership is needed to ensure that policies are adhered to. C: Good institutional culture that shows quality of integrity and transparency. Change Theory: Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS)

9. Personal integrity and ethics are among the profession's expectations by AACN Essentials (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2021). 45 CFR Part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects): With research aims, it also underlines ethical control and responsibility, which is of value to academic integrity (Code of Federal Regulations, n.d.). Administrative Policies: The academic integrity policies have to be acceptable and efficient. Professional Codes: The ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses is a guide to morality. Best Practices: Comparing other leading nursing programs to have a comprehensive policy (Abbott & Nininger, 2020). Guidelines, Regulations, and Benchmarks

10. The Proposed Change Plan: Enhancing Academic Integrity Phase 1: Policy Review -update (Months 1-2) Seminars should be held for all nursing faculty members on recognizing, reporting, and dealing with academic dishonesty. Concentrate on the uniform implementation of policies and the resources at hand. Design plug-and-play modules on academic integrity, ethical decision-making, and reference and citation. Find out more with the use of case studies and conducting discussions. When it comes to periodic refreshment training. Make up a task force comprising faculty, students, and administration. Explain and revise the current policies concerning academic integrity and update them. Provide the procedures for identifying plagiarism, reporting thereof, and the sanctions. Ensure that practices are consistent with policies and laws related to professional standards among nurses. Design a transparent document that will be comprehensible to all stakeholders. Phase 2: Intensive Education and Training (3-5 months)

11. Phas e: Designing of Support Systems (Months 6-8) Establish an Academic Integrity Resource Center at the student and faculty level. Make the plagiarism detection software and the writing support services available. Come up with an effective, confidential reporting system regarding academic dishonesty. Emergent is processed in legitimate and sensible research. Provide counseling and remediation for the students who breach academic integrity . Phase 4: Building an Ethical Culture (Ongoing) Facilitate discussion of ethical nursing issues in the nursing programs. Recognizing and finding outstanding academic integrity of students and the faculty. Introduce the issues of academic integrity in the curriculum across the board. Employ a helpful culture that will make students feel free to ask questions. Share achievements, good news, and positive behavior reinforcement as frequently as possible. The Proposed Change Plan: Enhancing Academic Integrity (Cont.)

12. Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Change Process Customize lessons on education that should view different learning styles and research reactions to papers about Cultural misconstructions of educational norms (Flaubert et al., 2021). Culturally Sensitive Education: Train the faculty on how to spot and combat unfair treatment with the product of unconscious bias in addressing academic dishonesty (Fields et al., 2022). Faculty Bias Training: Accessible Resources: The academic support and integrity resources should be accessible to all students, including those from underrepresented backgrounds. 01 02 03 Transparent Processes: The academic support and integrity resources should be acceAdhere to the transparent process reporting and adjudication to earn the trust of all student body demographics.ssible to all students, including those from underrepresented backgrounds. 04 Inclusive Dialogue: Create an ambience where students can pose questions and/or seek clarification regarding the expectations on academic integrity issues without fear of being judged. 05

13. Q uantitative Metrics: Reduction in Noticeable Cases: Records the forms of academic dishonesty reports on a case-by-case basis. Student and Faculty Survey Data: Determines the perception of the university policy regarding academic integrity, knowledge of the policy by the students and staff, and their degree of trust in asking questions of the university policy (Francis, 2023). Plagiarism Software Reports: Find out the trends in plagiarism detection scores. Policy Compliance Audit: An audit of the extent to which the faculty performs their reporting procedures. Program Completion Rates: Monitor the students' participation and successful service delivery in their remediation. Evaluation Plan: Measuring Success

14. Q uantitative Metrics: Focus Groups: Conduct regular focus groups among the students and faculty to provide detailed feedback on how effective the change initiative was. Interviews: This is to be done in the form of interviews with the key stakeholders (including academic advisors and deans) to assess the cultural shift to integrity. Case Study Analysis: At regular intervals, retrospectively review a sample of academic integrity cases to detect inconsistency and fairness of the outcome. Curriculum Review: Find out the level to which academic integrity is structurally aligned in course syllabi and assignments. Faculty Meeting Agendas: Monitor how the issue of academic integrity is discussed in department meetings, in terms of its frequency and the character of those discussions. Evaluation Plan: Monitoring for Sustainability

15. FOLLOW-UP PLAN: ENSURING LONG-TERM IMPACT Annual Review: The policies and procedures on academic integrity should be reviewed using feedback data at the end of each year. Continuous Professional Development: Provide ongoing education to the faculty and staff about best practices for promoting academic integrity and new challenges (Zolkefli & Rosli, 2025). Student Orientation Reinforcement: Embed academic integrity into the most common theme of student orientations and throughout their educational life. Stakeholder Communication: Regularly publish news about the nursing community's successes, challenges, and policy changes. Leadership Commitment: Keep leadership commitment on the issue of academic integrity as a value of the nursing program.

16. Pati ent safety and nursing professionalism mainly rely on academic integrity. Copyright infringement and unreported plagiarism are dangerous in legal, ethical, and professional terms. The PARIHS framework has a sturdy change implementation model. A multi-phased policy, education, and supportive plan is essential. DEI considerations will make the implementation fair and culturally sensitive. The discipline of evaluation and follow-up is needed to maintain an impact. Summary of Main Points

17. I would like to thank you for the time and attention. I would be happy to hear your questions and remarks. Let us have a healthy debate aimed at enhancing academic integrity in nursing education even further. Questions & Discussion

18. Thank you very much

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