Please, DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

pecanpies · Nov 27, 2011

I agree 100%, but frankly there's not much any individual person can do. If people are going to cheat, they'll find a way. If I see a post that's a blatant request for help with cheating, I just try to ignore it and move on. Hopefully more will do the same and cheaters will learn they won't get what they want here!

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Nov 27, 2011

i think people want to be helpful-- i know i do-- but it takes some experience and guidance to know what's being helpful and what's doing the other person's work. here's my advice on how to help facilitate the real learning we want our nurses to achieve before they take care of us: :idea:

if someone wants to interview you for an assignment, say that part of the assignment (which may be unstated) is to get them to find and talk to someone face-to-face, in part because nursing has to do that a lot and in part because you learn so much more in an actual live conversation where you can observe your interviewee. that's a skill they'll need in patient care forever.

if someone wants answers to clinical, care plan, or other such things, don't just give hand them the answer on a platter. you're correct that no learning takes place when someone's only "research" is to go to the web, push a button, and ask for the answer, then regurgitate what they find. also, most faculty don't like students who turn in cut-and-paste "work" from the web.

offer the names of good books that have helped you.

mention useful websites, like the american heart association, the american cancer association, for example.

say that you are happy to help, but that you want to know what other efforts the questioner has made on his/her own behalf (besides just asking on an online forum) and what results s/he got out of it, and then be willing to lead them down the path of discovery with further questioning. that's a lot more helpful, even though a lazy person is gonna hate you for it. too bad. "lazy" and "nursing" don't go well together. :smokin:

Trauma Columnist · Nov 27, 2011

The reason that we have the Student nursing assistance forum is for those questions from students that need assistance.

We always encourage posters to post what they have come up with first. No problem (and very nice too IMHO) to post links.

By keeping these types of posts in the nursing student assistance forum, we are allowing students to post as well as hopefully providing some solid info/help.