E-Portfolio for Nursing Professionals: Benefits, Philosophies, and Experiences

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Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Benefits of portfolio:........................................................................................................................2
Associated advantages for students:................................................................................................3
Resume:...........................................................................................................................................4
Feeling:............................................................................................................................................5
Philosophies of nursing:..................................................................................................................5
Hobbies:...........................................................................................................................................7
Some of the experiments:................................................................................................................8
short-term goal:................................................................................................................................9
long-term goal:...............................................................................................................................10
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................11
Action plan:...................................................................................................................................11
References:....................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
E-portfolios can be described as a tool and a learning procedure that mainly contributes in
deepening of the student learning. In their e portfolios, students are seen to select different
evidences of their learning and reflect on those learning procedures. They make connections
between their courses and even between their academic work and the specific competencies that
the program tries to target (Koivunen et al., 2015). Researchers have indeed affirmed the efficacy
of the concept of e portfolios. The word portfolio had been derived from the Italian word
“Portare” meaning “to carry” and Foglio meaning “leaf or sheet”. In the current context in
nursing, the portfolio can be described as the organized collection of the professional work that
mainly follows the trajectory of the career of a nurse and thereby illustrates the background, skill
and even the expertise of the individual (Souza et al., 2016). One of the studies had described
portfolio as the work documentation across time that represents a collection of the evidences for
effectively demonstrating the skills, knowledge, achievements and attitudes (McCabe et al.,
2015). They also afford an individual snapshot of the current skills and thereby provide students
and registered nurses with the opportunity of reflecting their professional growth that helps in
developing new goals.
Benefits of portfolio:
Portfolio has huge number of benefits. It can be also viewed as the reflective document
where it can promote self-directed learning and even assist in career development and planning.
Portfolios can be used in the variety of professional disciplines within the setting of the
university for a number of years for encouraging reflective practices in the students. However, a

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portfolio can never be considered as same as that of the CV. Portfolios can never replace CV but
they are helpful in providing information at a volume as well as depth that can never be found in
the CV (McCabe et al., 2015). These are seen to briefly list the backgrounds, achievements and
experiences of the nurse whereas the portfolios mainly provides the depth of the evidences and
the confirmation of the competencies as well as the expertise developed due to the result of the
experiences of the nurse. Therefore, it also benefits as a valuable adjunct to that of the CV.
Portfolios development is therefore considered as the active procedure that involve collection,
synthesizing as well as organizing relevant information and important items that will reflect the
vest evidences of achievement.
Associated advantages for students:
Several important advantages result by effective development of e-portfolios by the
students and the nursing professionals. Firstly, for the practicing nurses, reflection of their
experiences as well as their skills would help in determining how well they are prepared for their
positions they are seeking. Secondly, for the graduate nurses, reflection of the specific clinical
and professional growth since the admission to a specific nursing program and thereby outlining
the short and long-term goals prove to be extremely helpful in building their specific career path.
Third, in some of the disciples, e-portfolios are considered to be a well-established practice for
demonstrating progress as well as archive coursework through the colleges and also provide
evidences for effectively meeting learning outcomes (Alghamdi, 2016). Many of the researchers
are also of the opinion that procedures of building an e-portfolio can support the preparation of
the academic applications as well as for professional interviews.