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background objective academic dishonesty misconduct among nursing students crucial concern within educational institutions nursing education academic dishonesty hinders development knowledge skills among students thereby jeopardizing patient safety effectiveness clinical practice study aimed assess prevalence forms academic dishonesty among nursing students saudi arabia methodology participants comprised 482 nursing students two governmental universities saudi arabia newly developed selfreported questionnaire used collect data academic dishonesty comprising two distinct sections 16item academic dishonesty questionnaire examinations 11item academic dishonesty questionnaire related assignments results onesample binomial test indicates significant proportion students engaging least one form academic dishonesty n 452 938 1 19176 p 0001 notably 432 899 students reported dishonesty examinations 385 799 assignments multipleresponse analysis 7712 responses 482 students using 16item examination dishonesty questionnaire showed majority students n 4010 52 cheating examination similarly 5302 total responses 11item assignment dishonesty questionnaire 2773 523 responses revealed engagement academic dishonesty assignment prevalent statistically significant form academic dishonesty examinations studying previous examination questions without knowledge teacher n 370 765 followed providing collecting previous examination question papers n 316 656 n 304 631 respectively similarly common significant form academic dishonesty completion assignments included unfair collaboration n 331 687 allowing friend copy assignments n 304 631 copying internet n 286 593 without citing source p 0001 conclusions study identified significant prevalence academic dishonesty among saudi nursing students particularly noteworthy concern within context respected governmental educational institution emphasizes need implementing rigorous preventive measures curb academic dishonesty based findings study recommended interventions include providing educational workshops similar initiatives educate students consequences cheating plagiarism using diverse questions assess knowledge skills theory examinations assignments enforcing stringent penalties copying cheating establishing code ethics proactively promoting ethical practices among nursing students leveraging influence islamic religious principles address issue