Ad on Craiglist for ghostwriter for nursing student

[tsm007]

Wow! I knew people cheated, but really??? I was just glancing over health care jobs and found this. Not really what I had in mind for a job. What is wrong with people?

Looking for Medical Student or LPN/RN Student

I'm a nursing student taking nursing courses online. Looking for a Medical Student or RN.

I need a creative writer skilled in research and composition and APA formatting needed to ghostwrite nursing school coursework. This is a regular gig. Each week, writer will be required to research and compose two APA-formatted discussion board answers of approximately 300 -400 words each, as well as four APA-sourced and formatted responses(150 words) to other peer postings. Occasionally, writer will be expected to complete additional written paper assignments 3 pages long. I do not need an editor. Only mature individuals need respond.

http://kalamazoo.craigslist.org/hea/4242988396.html

[FDW630]

Yes me too ESME. But this is the difference i was talking about in another one of my post when i spoke about nursing school students"then" and "now"...... NOT TRYING TO START A DEBATE HERE. Im just saying. This is highly disappointing.:sad face:

It's not just nursing students. It's society in general.

[Guest757854]

It's not just nursing students. It's society in general.

I guess.......but coming from a nursing student IMO makes it much worst.....and since this is "AllNurses" the only "society" i care to comment on is the nursing society/community. IJS

[SopranoKris, MSN, RN, NP]

It makes me sad....and angry. I hope they get busted too.

Me, too! How could anyone do such a thing? Yes, APA is mind-numbingly tedious. Yes, it's a lot of work. But to hire someone to "ghost write" for you is cheating!!

[Levitas, BSN, RN]

Honestly, I couldn't care less (sorry).

If they want to cheat their way through their program, so be it. As long as it doesn't affect the level care given to their patients, it's not really any of my business.

However, don't mistake me saying this with my approval of cheating. I do not approve in the tiniest bit. I just don't care that this person does, is all. Firm believer of Karma here, it all comes around in the end.

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

Wow, I guess you CAN buy a degree. Sad and upsetting all around.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

They are pretty specific in their assignment which improves their chances of getting caught

[Amnesty]

As a former ghost writer who used to freelance to try to stay afloat while in school for my first degree, how much you wanna bet she's also paying some ridiculously low amount like $5 an hour?

I bet anything she'll get busted. Somebody will try and find out what school she's from with her assignments and turn her in. Nurses get too angry about these types of things to let that slide.

[Everline]

This definitely seems like an RN-BSN online program. If so, this person more than likely already passed the NCLEX. I personally wouldn't do something like this because I want to feel good about my academic achievement. It's highly personal for me. I could not be proud of an achievement gained by someone else's work. If this person has already been through a nursing program, clinicals and passed the NCLEX, it doesn't ring alarm bells for me as far as patient care is concerned. Their willingness to cheat so "publicly", however, seems indicative of a certain amount of hubris that can go seriously wrong for that person in numerous ways, and THAT is scary. Also, who is to say the person won't do the assignments, get paid and then rat on the person?

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Wow- My very first (and abiding) thought was that this was an instructor, who was privy to some very specific intel, looking to bust someone.

[Levitas, BSN, RN]

If this person has already been through a nursing program, clinicals and passed the NCLEX, it doesn't ring alarm bells for me as far as patient care is concerned. Their willingness to cheat so "publicly", however, seems indicative of a certain amount of hubris that can go seriously wrong for that person in numerous ways, and THAT is scary.

That's what I was thinking. From my point of view, the only thing any of us should care about is the patients that this person may take care of. Anything otherwise is just a waste of energy.

Why give them the time of day? Or the emotions?

[BostonFNP, APRN]

That's what I was thinking. From my point of view the only thing any of us should care about is the patients that this person may take care of. Anything otherwise is just a waste of energy. Why give them the time of day? Or the emotions?[/quote']

Do you think this shows good moral character? Do you think this person would take shortcuts in cairn for patients? Should this person get to go to grad school on those grades? Do you think they would be honest about things at work?

[schnookimz]

I flagged the post for removal on Craigslist.