title: Perceptions of academic integrity among nursing students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Academic dishonesty is growing among nursing students. Reasons for this growth can be categorized into student, faculty, and system factors. Nursing faculty designed a study to explore this problem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We identified three themes: characteristics of students with academic integrity, patient safety, and professional outcomes. Exploring student perceptions of academic integrity can help faculty design measures to prevent dishonesty in these three areas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We recommend fostering culture change through strategies that target students, faculty, and systems. These strategies include peer mentoring, role modeling integrity, enhancing awareness of what constitutes cheating, and developing policies that promote honesty.
authors.affiliation: Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761, USA. wmwoith@ilstu.edu
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Woith
authors.forename: Sheryl Daun
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kerber
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D008192:Deception; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000941:ethics*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*