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.
School of Nursing students must have a signed PROFITS plege in their file in
the Academic Affairs Office. Academic misconduct or abuse of academic
resources will be reported through the PROFITS system.
Students from other schools/departments are expected to adhere to the stated
behavioral standards for the class. Academic misconduct or abuse of
academic resources will be reported to the respective student's department and
processed under its guidelines.
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:
- Information systems (computer, telephone, print materials);
- 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, critiques, and other course activities:
- Misconduct includes sharing questions and answers to the quizzes, critiques, and other
activties.
- Misconduct includes obtaining answers to quizzes, critiques, and other activities.
Papers and presentations:
- Plagiarizing, the presentation of the words or ideas of another person without proper
citation or attribution, is considered academic misconduct.
- 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.
- Misconduct includes submitting a paper that you did not write yourself.
- Misconduct includes submitting the same paper that has been turned in to fulfill the
requirements for another course.
- 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.
- 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:
- Unless specified, all work in this course is to be completed individually.
- 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.
- Abuse of academic resources includes unauthorized copying academic software
from a KUMC computer for use on your personal home computer.
Group Projects:
- Misconduct includes tolerating or aiding other group members
who do not participate in the group process or make ongoing contribution to
the project.
- Misconduct includes failure to contribute to the group work.
- Members of a designated group are responsible for assuring
that all students whose names appear on the project contributed. The name
of a group member(s) who did not contribute to the project should not be listed
on the assignment.