PROFITS

What is the purpose of PROFITS?

PROFITS delineates a standard of behavior expected of all faculty, staff, and students associated with the School of Nursing. It builds on valuses brought to the academic setting and provides a means of incorporating these values to form the foundation of professional nursing. This standard addresses behaviors in classroom and clinical settings, evaluation and non-evaluation situatins, and research and scholarly endeavors. It promotes a spirit of community conducive to mututal trust and responsibility among students, faculty, and staff. The System also delineates a process for handling occurrences of academic misconduct or abuse of academic resources by students. PROFITS is designed to promote (a) professional and ethical standards of behavior in the nursing role; (b) responsibility among students, faculty, and staff; (c) shared responsibility for development, implementation, and evaluation of the PROFITS system; and (d) an environment in which academic misconduct or abuse of academic resouces is not tolerated.

Pledge:

I pledge that I will not give, receive, nor tolerate unauthorized aid, nor will I abuse academic resources while I am a member of this academic community.

Definitions:

Academic misconduct: (Adapted from the University of Kansas Senate Rules and Regulations, Article II, Section 6)

Academic misconduct by a student will include, but not be limited to: cheating on examinations whether by a student on his/her own behalf or by giving to another student or receiving from another student unauthorized aid on examinations; giving or receiving of unauthorized aid in the preparation of notebooks, papers, reports, nursing assessments and/or care plans, or other types of assignments, or in the preparation of master's theses or doctoral dissertations; or knowingly misrepresenting the source of any academic work, falsification of research results, plagiarizing of another's work, violation of regulations or ethical codes for the treatment of human and animal subjects, or otherwise acting dishonestly in research; and knowingly violating the rights of patients for safe, professional and humane treatment.

Abuse of academic resources: Abuse of academic resources includes unauthorized access to and/or use of:

1. Information systems (computer, telephone, print materials);
2. Security systems (keys, secret codes, etc.).

Examples of misconduct:

PROFITS upholds behaviors reflective of individual responsibility, mutual trust, professional values, and standards. PROFITS values an academic environment free of academic misconduct or abuse of academic resources. When in doubt, the student must clarify with the instructor, the appropriateness of behaviors that may violate PROFITS. The following are examples of non-acceptable behaviors in NRSG 754.

Quizzes and Critiques:

1. Misconduct includes sharing questions and answers to the quizzes and critiques.

Papers and presentations:

1. Plagiarizing, the presentation of the words or ideas of another person without proper citation or attribution, is considered academic misconduct.
2. Students are encouraged to seek editorial feedback regarding writing style, APA style, and clarity of papers from other students, professional colleagues, or staff of the Student Services Department, Student Center.
3. Misconduct includes submitting a paper that you did not write yourself.
4. Misconduct includes submitting the same paper that has been turned in to fulfill the requirements for another course.
5. Students who consider writing a paper on a topic they have addressed to fulfill the requirements of another course should first talk to the course professor.
6. Reference in a paper to information obtained from non-print materials (i.e. videotapes, scholarly presentations) must be cited according to APA style. Failure to do so will be considered plagiarism.

General:

1. Unless specified, all work in this course is to be completed individually.
2. In completing the course assignments, students are allowed/encouraged to use any resources (supplemental texts, information on the World Wide Web, etc.), other than human, to supplement the required readings and learning activities.
3. Abuse of academic resources includes copying academic software from a KUMC computer for use on your personal home computer.

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