UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing

Students are expected to adhere to all hospital and School of Nursing rules of conduct.  Violation of any of the following behaviors is considered serious and will result in immediate disciplinary action and may include termination:

• Stealing or receiving property belonging to other students, faculty or other persons affiliated in some way with the hospital
• Willful destruction, theft or damage of property belonging to other students, faculty, the hospital or other persons affiliated in some way with the hospital
• Passing, possessing or using weapons, incendiaries, explosives or other dangerous devices or materials on hospital property, or conspiring to do so
• Possessing or consuming intoxicants, unprescribed drugs or other legally controlled substances on the premises as described by “Policies for Students Regarding Substance Abuse”
• Fighting, assault, horseplay or other disorderly conduct such as the use of abusive, profane or threatening language
• Threatening*, harassing*, intimidating* or coercing* other students, faculty or any other persons affiliated in some way with the hospital
• Sexual harassment*
• Physical abuse including sexual assault
• Sharing confidential information with anyone other than a properly authorized 
  person as indicated in PR-05 Administrative Policies & Procedures “Policy on
  Confidential Information”
• Accessing a personal medical record or a family member’s record. Per the “Release of Protected Health Information” Policy (HS-MR1000), a patient or their designee has the right to access, inspect and obtain a copy of the information contained in their medical record provided they have completed the UPMC Authorization for Release of Protected Health Information. The request for access must be submitted to the UPMC entity where services were provided.

Students are expected to adhere to the policies related to academic integrity.  The following behaviors are considered to be a violation of academic integrity:

• Cheating:  Students shall rely on their own mastery of the subject while taking a test or examination.  Cheating includes giving or obtaining information about a test, use of notes or study aids, and taking a test for another student.  (Villanova University, 2005).
• Plagiarism:  Any submission of work as your own that is someone else’s is the act of plagiarism.  Examples include but not limited to, “copying work from a book or journal without acknowledging the source, copying a source word for word without quotations and supplying the source, and paraphrasing a passage without giving credit to the original source”.  (http://teaching.berkeley.edu).
  
  Should a student’s work be identified as plagiarism, the student will receive a one (1) for that particular assignment and will receive a learning contract.  Should plagiarism be identified the second time, the student will immediately fail the nursing course.
• Fraud or forgery:  Any act or crime of imitating or counterfeiting documents, signatures, etc. to deceive.  (Webster’s New World Dictionary, 2003).  Examples include, but not limited to, student not representing themselves as a student on the clinical unit to the patient.
• Alteration or misuse of documents:  Examples include, but not limited to, “falsifying class attendance records for self or someone else, falsifying reasons for not attending class or exam, falsifying material related to course registration or grades”.  (http://www.jmu.edu/honor)
• Disruptive behaviors that interfere with the learning of the other students or conduct of the class.
• Multiple submissions of work:  Students shall not submit work for a class which has been done for another class without the prior approval of the instructor.  (http://www.academics.villanova.edu).  Note:  with each assignment the instructor expects an educational experience to take place.  Submitting work done by the student and resubmitted without changes to represent a current learning situation will fall into this category of multiple submissions.  Examples include, but not limited to:  using previously done care plans to fulfill a current assignment is multiple submission of work.