Cheating Nursing Students
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Questions: 1. Would you like your life to depend on the nursing skills and dedication of one of these 11 students? 2. Do you think they should be given another chance? |
11 Prairie View nursing students caught cheating on test
University says they won't be allowed to graduate (until next semester)
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Eleven Prairie View A&M University nursing students were caught cheating on a comprehensive examination last month and were not allowed to graduate with their class, the university said.
The students, who were using cell phones to text-message other students who had finished the exam, will be allowed to re-enroll this fall and will be required to take a course in ethics. They also must take the examination again. If they pass, they will be allowed to graduate in December.
"We never want to have any type of break in our university policies," said Betty Adams, dean of the nursing school. "We always take it as a matter of criticality when there is one. We have a protocol in the university and believe in due process. We handled this as we would any other matter on any other day."
Other students noticed the cheating and reported it to faculty members who were present. An ensuing university investigation brought students before a student court.
"They did go through student hearings," said school spokesman Bryce Kennard. "These 11 'fessed up, if you will, but it was never clearly defined who precisely did what and how many were involved."
Ten of the students agreed to return in the fall. The 11th student has not responded, he said.
The examination takes four to five hours to complete. Students are allowed to take breaks and leave the room, Kennard said, however, the text-messaging was done while students were seated and taking the test.
Approximately 45 Prairie View nursing students graduated this spring.
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physicsteacher wrote:
They should be expelled and that is that. Educational dishonesty at the college level used to be an academic death sentence. This should have continued.
5/28/2008 6:09:45 PM
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Whuzzup wrote:
Why are they being allowed to come back? That's insane...
5/28/2008 6:56:35 PM
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phred1 wrote:
As a registered nurse of more years than I want to tell, having started my basic program as a single mom of three small children, eventually working my way up the educational system until I had earned a Masters degree, having taught nursing in a number of programs, having been a patient several times with serious illnesses, having been in a wide variety of high ranking clinical, educational, and administrative positions, and having taught ethics...I say without hesitation---these students should be dropped from the nursing program and have a notation on their transcripts to indicate they were dropped and why. Nurses must possess the highest standards as relates to integrity, knowledge, skills, and conscientiousness...these students have already failed those requirements...would you want one of them to care for you or a family member? What do you think chances are that they would speak up quickly if they made an error? They do not deserve another opportunity to become licensed nurses...the public at large deserves better. They, and their parents, should enter counseling to determine why they chose such a dysfunctional pathway...it has to be from a life long set of circumstances which taught them to cut corners and to engage in dishonest behaviors...if they don't correct that now, and I seriously doubt they will, they will never be successful in life. |
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