Have you ever cheated in school ? Would you ever cheat if you could get away with it?
Cheating - copying stuff that's not yours - tests, homework, projects and/or other assignments.
Scenario 1:
While taking an exam, your professor left the classroom. You're seated beside a straight-A student. Would you peak to that student's paper? (Note: You can get away with it! You will not get caught!)
Scenario 2:
Your teacher is in the classroom giving a final exam. You are allowed to use your cellphone as a calculator. You are using an iPhone and can access the internet. Would you look into Google to find the answer to a question you do not know?
So, does anyone of you ever cheated in nursing school? at least once or maybe a lot of times? Could you share some of your experiences if you got caught or if you got away with it? Did you feel bad/guilty about it afterward?
I'm just curious, so please don't think that this thread is offensive in anyway. I have to admit that I cheated before. I copied someone's homework, I looked into my seatmates' test paper. I wrote some medical dosages' formula in my desk.
There's also this cliche that goes "When you cheat, you're really cheating yourself." I say this is BS - especially in school. Tuition nowadays is over the top particularly nursing. Not to mention how hard it is to get in into the damn program.
this forum is so fake! jeesh i admitted to cheating and warned everyone not to end up like me and it got deleted
well yes, I cheated on an exam and I regret it because of the humiliation you go through when you have to return to the next scheduled class after being busted in front of everyone
I do wish my professor was more discreet about it. i didn't like how he approached me and was all loud about it and was drawing more attention to the situation. we had a whole audience watching. yes I was wrong but i felt that he should have discreetly done things so everybody wouldn't have to know.
i also will try to file a lawsuit because of how the security guards man handled me when they were removing me from the classroom. i am only 5'3 and weigh 120lbs, i am just a petite little thing they don't need to be handling me like a ragdoll. my gramma told me to go to my attorney about that becuz the school handled it all wrong!
i am glad i was given a second chance. i made a huge mistake and i wont ever do it again. i was just overwhelemed by all the classes and got behind with studying. i did study but had a cheat sheet for only a few terms it wasn't like i was going to cheat on the whole exam. well now i know better now
Seriously?!??!
You admit you cheated; you were caught. You obstinately refuse to do as your Professor asks and act so badly and rudely that the Professor feels the need to call security & have you removed. You continue to act badly and try to FIGHT OFF security, till they finally have to physically remove you!! Through this the rest of your class is still trying to take their exam!!
Somehow, through the grace of God, your Professor then lets you retake the exam.
Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
this forum is so fake! jeesh i admitted to cheating and warned everyone not to end up like me and it got deleted
well yes, I cheated on an exam and I regret it because of the humiliation you go through when you have to return to the next scheduled class after being busted in front of everyone
I do wish my professor was more discreet about it. i didn't like how he approached me and was all loud about it and was drawing more attention to the situation. we had a whole audience watching. yes I was wrong but i felt that he should have discreetly done things so everybody wouldn't have to know.
i also will try to file a lawsuit because of how the security guards man handled me when they were removing me from the classroom. i am only 5'3 and weigh 120lbs, i am just a petite little thing they don't need to be handling me like a ragdoll. my gramma told me to go to my attorney about that becuz the school handled it all wrong!
i am glad i was given a second chance. i made a huge mistake and i wont ever do it again. i was just overwhelemed by all the classes and got behind with studying. i did study but had a cheat sheet for only a few terms it wasn't like i was going to cheat on the whole exam. well now i know better now
Honestly I think public humiliation is the PERFECT way to handle a cheater. Everyone else worked hard for their grade. Cheaters deserve to be exposed. You may not have liked it but you state you learned your lesson. Proof enough to me it worked. I am glad to hear you intend to be a better person and better student now. Get the grade you earn...and be proud that you earned it.
Well, I think I did cheat... kinda... once. Not on a test or anything, but on my care plans. My instructor said they weren't long enough, and I was making Cs and Ds on them, so once I showed some of my care plans to my boyfriend, who was an English major, and asked him if he could take that information and turn my 3 pages into 12 or so pages. He didn't know a blessed thing about nursing, but he DID know English, so he helped me reword my care plans. He just said what I had said over and over in lots of different ways, repeating the same information, but using different words and phrases ad nauseum.
Did you know there are about 30 ways to say have the patient try repositioning if he's in pain? For example.
I started making As on my verbose, flowery and leeeeeengthy care plans. My teacher said, "Now, this is more like it."
But have someone else actually make up the information? No. Look on someone else's paper? No. (I trusted myself more than another student.) Copy someone else's project? Never. Maybe I could have gotten by with it, and maybe nobody else would ever know, but I would know. I would always know that whatever that grade was, I didn't earn it.
I always made "cheat sheets" 5x7 note cards, after I made them, but I didn't need them... I did it in HS and 30 years later in Nursing school. just condensing it down if you work hard at something you don't need to cheat.
Do you really think someone is going to be honest with an answer to that question? You know every nurse out there is a saint!!!!!:rolleyes:Anyway, I thought you were talking about cheating on your spouse. You should ask that question and see what answers you get. I'll bet everyone is a saint with that one also.......I just couldn't resist!!!!
Yeah...we're all either "saints" or just lying, just because many of us said we would never cheat. And some of us actually admit that we DID once. Whatever.
this forum is so fake! jeesh i admitted to cheating and warned everyone not to end up like me and it got deleted
well yes, I cheated on an exam and I regret it because of the humiliation you go through when you have to return to the next scheduled class after being busted in front of everyone
I do wish my professor was more discreet about it. i didn't like how he approached me and was all loud about it and was drawing more attention to the situation. we had a whole audience watching. yes I was wrong but i felt that he should have discreetly done things so everybody wouldn't have to know.
i also will try to file a lawsuit because of how the security guards man handled me when they were removing me from the classroom. i am only 5'3 and weigh 120lbs, i am just a petite little thing they don't need to be handling me like a ragdoll. my gramma told me to go to my attorney about that becuz the school handled it all wrong!
i am glad i was given a second chance. i made a huge mistake and i wont ever do it again. i was just overwhelemed by all the classes and got behind with studying. i did study but had a cheat sheet for only a few terms it wasn't like i was going to cheat on the whole exam. well now i know better now
If you had to be escorted out by security there was a reason for it. Your attitude towards how it was handled is a joke. You got caught, you were humiliated for it, you learned from it. Get over it and move on.
Yeah...we're all either "saints" or just lying, just because many of us said we would never cheat. And some of us actually admit that we DID once. Whatever.
Excuse me...but I really have not every cheated. In my life. Now, I am the first to admit I am far from being a saint. I've done plenty of things I'm not proud of; cheating isn't one of them. Please do not accuse me of lying.
Never cheated in NS!! Never even tempted to try since INTEGRITY is so important to me. I did cheat a few times in HS though, felt terrible afterwards. I guess that's how you learn that even if no one ever finds out you still have to live with yourself. :)
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Excuse me...but I really have not every cheated. In my life. Now, I am the first to admit I am far from being a saint. I've done plenty of things I'm not proud of; cheating isn't one of them. Please do not accuse me of lying.
She didn't, she was replying to someone elses post, she was being a smart orifice
Excuse me...but I really have not every cheated. In my life. Now, I am the first to admit I am far from being a saint. I've done plenty of things I'm not proud of; cheating isn't one of them. Please do not accuse me of lying.
No, no, no...I'm being sarcastic. I'm not accusing anybody of lying. In fact, I'm talking to the poster who said that we are all saints or that we're not being honest. I'm sorry if that came out wrong. I am no saint, either, but have not cheated. That poster annoyed me by implying that we are not being honest with the OP , just because some of us actually have ethics and principles, and think that it's WRONG to cheat - esp. in nursing school.
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Seriously?!??!
You admit you cheated; you were caught. You obstinately refuse to do as your Professor asks and act so badly and rudely that the Professor feels the need to call security & have you removed. You continue to act badly and try to FIGHT OFF security, till they finally have to physically remove you!! Through this the rest of your class is still trying to take their exam!!
Somehow, through the grace of God, your Professor then lets you retake the exam.
You're going to repay that with a law suit?