Offering money to switch clinical sites? Ethical?

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In my cohort, a student offerred money to switch clinical sites. This is not ethical. Should I report it to our program director? I don't want to be identified though. Any ideas on how to do this anonymously? Thoughts in general? Has this occurred in your program?

OP is just looking for a reason to be messy.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Reporting this would make me question your understanding of ethics, OP. In real life, nurses switch shifts all the time. Unless this is forbidden by your school or clinical site, it is not unethical. In practice, you will face plenty of real ethical dilemmas. In this situation, I only see a lack of collegiality on your part. Do you also plan to report your future colleagues for asking to trade holiday shifts or weekend shifts? If so, prepare for a difficult road as a nurse.

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Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.

What in the world? I cannot figure out why you would make an ethics issue out of such a thing. Are you upset about your own clinical assignment and mad that someone else has money to switch theirs? I mean, why do you even care? Or maybe you are frustrated about the cheating you think is going on in your program and have started to look at your classmates' actions with a suspicious mind frame. If there is real cheating going on—as in someone is gaining an unfair advantage on a test by getting test answers or using cheat sheets, etc, then address it with the proper people. But offering money to switch clinical sites does not fall into that category, by any stretch of the imagination. I strongly suggest you take a step back on this one.

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Still waiting on a reason why this is unethical. Now the cheating yes that's unethical. But switching clinical sites with a bonus?

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Specializes in HIV.

Are you serious? Leave it alone. Focus on you.

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Stay in your lane! You should have enough to worry about instead of reporting someone offering money to switch clinical sites.

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Stay in your lane!

Too funny! And true!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Some people are so petty and quick to throw someone else under the bus.

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Specializes in Psych & Gero psych.

The student taking pics sure report them if you have proof and can. That said just know it won't help with NCLEX. I know a fellow student took the NCLEX 5 times before giving up and moving on. I hope I don't have to tell you how she keep her grades up enough to graduate.

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Specializes in L&D.

Girl go find you a stadium and have MULTIPLE seats.

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In my cohort, a student offerred money to switch clinical sites. This is not ethical. Should I report it to our program director? I don't want to be identified though. Any ideas on how to do this anonymously? Thoughts in general? Has this occurred in your program?

What's unethical about it? Could you clarify your thoughts on that?

Besides, we never had the option to swap. We were assigned to a clinical site, and that was that.

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I hate when people start threads to elicit an opinion, then when things are not as they think thru should they stop interacting.

While I have walked away from thread disputes before, it is not before I feel I have conveyed my thoughts and feel the continuation would be pointless.

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