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Academic dishonesty among Italian nursing students: A longitudinal study.

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The results show that students get accustomed to taking academically deceitful actions and come to consider their behaviours acceptable and normal, thereby stabilizing them, which increases the probability of stabilizing subsequent deceitful behaviours.
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This article is published in Nurse Education Today.The article was published on 2017-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nurse education & Academic dishonesty.

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Exploring the paradox: A cross-sectional study of academic dishonesty among Australian nursing students.

TL;DR: The findings of this study support existing literature that refutes the assumption that the nobility of these disciplines would result in a lower incidence of cheating behaviours and found troubling rates of academic and professional misconduct among the surveyed population.
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Two Sides of the Coin: Lack of Academic Integrity in Exams During the Corona Pandemic, Students' and Lecturers' Perceptions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the reasons for students' unethical behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic and elicit students' and lecturers' perceptions of students' academic dishonesty during this period.
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Reasons for academic dishonesty during examinations among nursing students: Cross-sectional survey.

TL;DR: A questionnaire to develop and validate a questionnaire for investigating nursing students' perceptions about the reasons for academic dishonesty during examinations, whose identification can guide preventive strategies.
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Perceptions of Plagiarism Among Medical and Nursing Students in Erbil, Iraq.

TL;DR: There was a lack of understanding of plagiarism and its legal ramifications among undergraduate medical and nursing students in Erbil, Iraq, and the findings indicate that there is an urgent need to increase students' understanding and its consequences so as to reduce the incidence of this type of academic misconduct.
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Snapshot of academic dishonesty among Malaysian nursing students: A single university experience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a purposive sampling method to evaluate academic dishonesty among nursing students at a public university in Malaysia and found that 82.1% and 74.6% of nursing students engaged at least once in an act of academic dishonest behavior in an academic or clinical setting, respectively.
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An Examination of the Relationship Between Academic Dishonesty and Workplace Dishonesty: A Multicampus Investigation

TL;DR: This paper found that students who believed that cheating, or dishonest acts, are acceptable were more likely to engage in these dishonest behaviors in the classroom and also engaged in dishonest acts in the workplace, and suggested some techniques to discourage dishonesty in classroom.
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Does academic dishonesty relate to unethical behavior in professional practice? An exploratory study

TL;DR: Responses to open-ended questions on an exploratory survey indicate that students identify common themes in describing both temptations to cheat or to violate workplace policies and factors which caused them to hesitate in acting unethically, supporting the first hypothesis and laying the foundation for future surveys having forced-choice responses.
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Academic dishonesty in nursing schools: an empirical investigation.

TL;DR: Emp empirical data supports the conclusion that cheating is a significant issue in all disciplines today, including nursing, and some preliminary policy implications are considered.
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Differences in medical students’ attitudes to academic misconduct and reported behaviour across the years—a questionnaire study

TL;DR: Observed differences between the years for some scenarios may reflect a change in students’ attitudes and behaviour as they progress though the course, and may draw attention to the potential but unintentional pressures placed on medical students to engage in academic misconduct.
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Staff and Student Perceptions of Plagiarism and Cheating

TL;DR: In this article, the attitudes of academic staff and students in a 3 year undergraduate nursing program to various forms of academic misconduct were assessed and compared and found that cheating on assessment tasks was common with "copying a few paragraphs and not citing the source" the most common form.
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