Anti-plagiarism software unequivocally revealed the fraud in the summer of 2020: a student from the Nursing Training Institute (Ifsi) in Châteaubriant (Loire-Atlantique) had borrowed 71% of the work from reference authors. his final dissertation. The suspicions of the correctors had been aroused by the discrepancy between the quality of the work and the difficulties encountered during the year by the student, who had only validated two thirds of his subjects during remediation.
The sanction fell quickly, at the end of June 2020: the disciplinary section pronounced an exclusion from five-year training, the highest level of the scale. In the disciplinary council, the student admitted “not having the right attitude” and invoked the effects of confinement on her motivation. She then took the matter to the administrative courts, considering the sanction disproportionate in light of this simple slip-up.
He will have benefited if the opinion of the public rapporteur, this Thursday, June 27, at the hearing of the sixth chamber, is followed. This independent magistrate, whose opinion guides the final decision of the judges, proposes to retain a “error of judgment” facts by the disciplinary section. Facts “isolated”, which did not justify, in his eyes, placing the cursor so high.
“Very strict ethics”
She recommends that the sanction be cancelled and that the establishment be ordered to conduct a review within four months. The lowest level of sanction being a one-year exclusion, the sanction would therefore be served after four years and the apprentice nurse would be reinstated.
“What message are we sending to other students?” reacts the Ifsi lawyer, The nursing profession requires very strict ethics.” The decision, put under advisement, is expected in three weeks.
