Taking into consideration Kantian ethics, individuals must act in a way that their acts could become universal laws. In other words, an individual must not cheat under any circumstance, and particularly nursing students. For example, these students can become in the future nurses that may document their physical assessment from the desk computer without doing it at all. Also, they should put themselves in the position of the person administering the exam, they probably would not allow the same behavior. Furthermore, students have the duty to contribute to their own education and training by not incurring in misconduct like cheating. On the other hand, virtue ethics suggests that morality comes from the character of the person. The students
