#8. Put questions with articles

In today’s depressing economy, more and more people decided to go to school and get a nursing degree, because it is the only few careers that are still in demand. However, because this occupation is so popular right now, people want to graduate from nursing school sooner to get a job. As a result, the number of cases of nursing students cheat on their exams have rise up. Some people have concern that the act of nursing students cheat on exams is more serious than students in another major cheat on exams, because, nurses’ practices are heavily based on specific skills and knowledge. If they cheat on exams when they are in school, they probably do not have the knowledge in their mind, and when they go to clinical, they do not know what to do with the patients. Therefore, they are putting the patients’ lives at risk. As a result of this fear, some people propose that schools should set up a more strict academic integrity policy towards nursing students. Specifically, they nursing schools should set up an honors code, since it is the most effective program against academic dishonesty so far. Yet, does setting up honors codes really eliminate cheating? Also, does it work on nursing students? Don McCabe, the promoter of honors code, and the authority figure of academic integrity, writes two articles: “Curbing Cheating” and “Honesty and Honor Codes”, explaining the positive effect of honors code in reducing cheating. He uses data and real life examples to show that honors code programs do set clear standards for students to follow and lower the number of cheating cases. A big supporter of McCabe’s theory in the nursing field is Atua O. Arhiii, a registered nurse and a nursing educator in a university. She does a survey on nursing student in term of their attitudes towards cheating behaviors and finds out that students are normalizing cheating behaviors and not consider some behavior that used to be cheating as non – cheating. In her article “A Pilot Study of Nursing Student's Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty: A Generation Y Perspective”, she expresses the concern that normalizing cheating behavior is the biggest problem among generation Y students and it is one of the reasons why the number of cheating cases have raised. Yet, there are some counter point that against McCabe’s view and says that setting up honors code does not solve the problem of cheating. Whether or not setting up honors code will help nursing school reduce the number of cheating cases and help nursing students have a better academic behavior is the main focus of this research paper.