1. Read the Putting the I in Integrity article.

https://journals.lww.com/nursingmanagement/fulltext/2015/04000/putting_the_i_in_integrity.10.aspx

2. Answer the following questions:

a. How do you define integrity?

b. What can you do to foster a practice setting that values integrity?

c. In the article, 1. Model appropriate behavior section, provided the following

example: If a senior leader is observed misrepresenting a situation either

in person or on a report, others are given the message that deception is

acceptable under the correct circumstances.

i. When a leader during The Joint Commission or other regulatory

review asks a direct report to deliver a set of completed records

that meet the requirements, is the leader implying that it’s all right

or even mandated that the individual correct these before handing

them off to the surveyor?

ii. Where does one draw the line?

d. When annual performance evaluations need to be completed, is it

expected that the manager signs and dates an evaluation that has been

inadvertently unsigned by the employee?

e. If the leaders tells the manager that he or she really doesn’t want to know

how the manager came up with the results but he or she is pleased with

the outcome, is this acceptable?