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Conflict of interest: Refers to two different points of view, regarding a specific topic or a situation, which can easily create chaos. Conflict of interest can also refer to performing specific skills as a part of your full time employment and personally benefitting from using these skills for financial gains on your off duty time. This challenge is a common occurrence and can usually be resolved by identifying that common ground between the differences of opinions.
Mentoring: Mentoring can be one on one or with a team to develop new skill sets, inspire learning and promote new ideas. Mentoring builds upon the training and provides support that encourages team building, trust, and ambition to pursue higher position levels or specialties. The challenge regarding mentoring is finding a person that has the right attitude, and is willing to dedicate the time and patience required to be a great …show more content…
If the contribution was substantial, that person should be credited by listing them as co-authors, if the contribution was at a lesser extent they should be listed in the acknowledgments section of the published work. Peer review also has a responsibility of confidentiality. Unless prior permission is granted from the editor to share in the review process no information regarding the work can be divulged. The reviewer must adhere to the established guidelines regarding the review process. This challenge is extremely important to research, without understanding the responsibilities associated with authorship and peer review the validity of the entire research process is compromised.
Research Misconduct: This refers to fabricating a research project and reporting it as actual outcomes, otherwise known as falsification. Plagiarism is also a serious infraction that is accompanied with severe consequences. Plagiarism is defined as using others people’s ideas and claiming it as your own without acknowledging credit for that person’s work. This challenge would be devastating to the credibility of a research project and the person