{"title":"Strategies for Academic Integrity Orientation in Undergraduate Nursing Programs: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Amanda Tracy","doi":"10.3928/01484834-20241204-03","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Promoting academic integrity is an essential role of nurse educators. This scoping review examined best practices for orienting undergraduate nursing students on academic integrity policies. Methods: CINAHL Plus, ERIC, and Academic Search Premier databases were searched for studies published in English since 2013. In addition, reference lists of included studies were hand-searched for supplementary articles. Included studies focused on academic integrity policy orientation practices in higher education.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data from 10 included studies are presented in this review. Few studies on academic policy orientation practices specific to nursing (<i>n</i> = 1) exist. Most of the studies (<i>n</i> = 8) focused on higher education practices with no specific discipline focus.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future research should focus on academic integrity policy orientation in nursing education. Nurse educators can implement generalizable recommendations from current literature. Recommendations include promoting a positive environment of academic integrity and faculty-led policy orientation practices. <b>[<i>J Nurs Educ</i>. 2025;64(1):40-43.]</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":94241,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of nursing education","volume":"64 1","pages":"40-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of nursing education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20241204-03","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/9/24 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background: Promoting academic integrity is an essential role of nurse educators. This scoping review examined best practices for orienting undergraduate nursing students on academic integrity policies. Methods: CINAHL Plus, ERIC, and Academic Search Premier databases were searched for studies published in English since 2013. In addition, reference lists of included studies were hand-searched for supplementary articles. Included studies focused on academic integrity policy orientation practices in higher education.
Results: Data from 10 included studies are presented in this review. Few studies on academic policy orientation practices specific to nursing (n = 1) exist. Most of the studies (n = 8) focused on higher education practices with no specific discipline focus.
Conclusion: Future research should focus on academic integrity policy orientation in nursing education. Nurse educators can implement generalizable recommendations from current literature. Recommendations include promoting a positive environment of academic integrity and faculty-led policy orientation practices. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(1):40-43.].