An intervention aimed at reducing plagiarism in undergraduate nursing students

Plagiarism is a current and developing problem in the tertiary education sector where students access information and reproduce it as their own. It is identified as occurring in many tertiary level degrees including nursing and allied health profession degrees. Nursing specifically, is a profession...

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Published in:Nurse education in practice 2015-05, Vol.15 (3), p.168-173
Main Authors: Smedley, Alison, Crawford, Tonia, Cloete, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic dishonesty
Adult
Cheating
Citations
Control Groups
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Educational programs
Ethics
Female
Higher education
Honesty
Humans
Internet
Intervention
Laboratories
Learner Engagement
Longitudinal Studies
Male
New South Wales
Nurse education
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Education
Nursing Students
Plagiarism
Professional Misconduct - ethics
Science education
Students, Nursing
Studies
Writing
Young Adult
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Summary:Plagiarism is a current and developing problem in the tertiary education sector where students access information and reproduce it as their own. It is identified as occurring in many tertiary level degrees including nursing and allied health profession degrees. Nursing specifically, is a profession where standards and ethics are required and honesty is paramount. The aim of this study was to evaluate the change in nursing student's knowledge and understanding of plagiarism before and after an educational intervention in their first semester of the Bachelor of nursing degree at a private college of higher education in Sydney, Australia. This study concluded that an educational intervention can increase knowledge and awareness of plagiarism among nursing students. •Review of the literature confirms that nursing students plagiarise as often as students in other disciplines.•An educational intervention aimed as reducing the incidence of plagiarism is evaluated.•Results show that educating students about academic honesty can reduce the incidence of plagiarism.
ISSN:1471-5953
1873-5223
DOI:10.1016/j.nepr.2014.12.003