Sustaining the Most Ethical Profession

For the past 15years, the nursing profession has topped the Gallup survey of most trusted professions (American Nurses Association (2016). During the same timeframe, the American Nurses Association revised and updated its Code of Ethics (2015). The past few years have been a time of some ethical conflict and moral distress for me as a nurse and an educator. I saw firsthand how academic dishonesty and cheating created turmoil for nursing faculty and students. Brave students, who witnessed what they perceived as a violation of the code of student conduct, came forward and described in detail how it impacted them.
Source: Teaching and Learning in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research