Kirkhof College of Nursing
Academic Integrity Statement

The Kirkhof College of Nursing expects our students to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity during their time with us. Cheating and plagiarism are two of the most obvious violations of academic honesty. KCON adheres to the Code for Nurses established by the American Nurses Association as well as the GVSU student code section 223.00- Integrity of Scholarship.

Standards:

Some standards of integrity we expect include:

• Honest representation of required coursework.
• Attendance at required learning activities is expected unless absence has been approved by the faculty.
• Responsibility and accountability for individual judgments and actions.
• Acts to safeguard the client and the public when health care and safety are affected by the incompetent, unethical, or illegal practice of any other student.

Forms of Plagiarism:

• Submitting a paper which was either wholly or partially written by someone else.
• Using direct quotations which are not enclosed in quotation marks (or indented form for long quotations). This includes portions of sentences as well as full sentences.
• Material that is clearly a paraphrase of one source but which is not documented.
• Presentation of undocumented information that is clearly not "common knowledge" in the area being considered in the paper.

Penalties:

As defined in the GVSU student code (Appendix A) the penalty may be "failure of a specific assignment, the entire course or if flagrant, dismissal from the University."

Penalties shall be determined individually by course faculty.

Faculty at KCON believes the following:

Education is the key to success and during an educational process a student has the opportunity to grow, learn and develop the integrity of a professional nurse. Such development can only occur in an environment of academic honesty.