Portfolio preparation Assignment PDF

Running head: PORTFOLIO PREPARATION
Portfolio preparation
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author note:

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Portfolio and its importance:......................................................................................................2
Portfolio design and characteristics:..........................................................................................4
Gibbs reflective cycle of personal experience:..........................................................................5
Benner’s stage of clinical competence:......................................................................................8
Artefacts:....................................................................................................................................9
Future career development:......................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction:
As a child, one of my greatest career dreams has been to establish myself
professionally in the field of offering health and social care. Since childhood, the concept of
helping people had always attracted me immensely in the childhood. I have grown up in a
small town where people helping others had been the foundation of the society I lived in. My
family has always encouraged me to lend a helping hand to everyone whenever it is needed
all my life. I believe this had given me the courage and support to nurture the dream of
turning my habit of helping others into a profession or respect and dignity (Brouwer et al.,
2017). Nursing had attracted me since I understood I wanted to proceed forward in the career
of helping others and saving lives. Clinical nursing educators are the professionals who
combine their clinical expertise and passion for education into a respectful profession in the
health care industry. This profession has attracted me to no end and hence, this portfolio will
help me develop a path for myself to attain this professional role in Australia (Clark, 2017).
This portfolio will showcase and represent my achievements, both academic and
professional, in order to be able to develop myself as a clinical educator in the Australian
health care system, by first pursuing the graduate diploma in nursing, followed by a masters
and then doing a bridging program which will help me get the registration for the post of
clinical nurse educator. I would also like to develop a working practice while pursuing my
degree regarding working in the Australian health care system so that I can devote my very
best to the profession that I am choosing to pursue.
Portfolio and its importance:
A portfolio can be defined as the culmination or collection of the individual abilities,
self-expression, and experiences. The portfolio helps the individual to reflect on their own
learning experience, enhancing the personal awareness with respect to learning needs and

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strategies to address those needs (Cadd, 2016). Portfolio can be acknowledged as providing
an actual evidence of the experiences and achievements gathered through lifetime. There is
mounting evidence that suggests that portfolio is a very useful tool to help the individuals go
forward in the professional field that has been chosen by me. Researchers are of the opinion
that the portfolio has a strong and very important role in facilitating the career growth of an
individual. It has to be mentioned in this context that the portfolio allows the living and
changing collection of the records which helps in reflecting the exact accomplishments,
skills, experiences, and attributes (Kim & Yazdian, 2014).
The importance of a portfolio is extreme in the life of a professional. It has to be
mentioned in this context that each and every professional field in the present day scenario is
becoming very competitive, with the massive rise in the population and rising competition in
the professional fields, each and every candidate has to be one step ahead in convincing the
employers or the university authorities to provide them the chance forsaking all others. The
portfolio in this case works excellently as a potent tool to convince the authorities why the
candidate has the most potential and is the most deserving candidate. Hence, the portfolio
acts as an professional artefact that allows the individual to showcase all the achievements
and experience that he or she has gained to prove themselves as the best candidate for the
opportunity that they are looking to pursue. Along with that, the importance of the portfolio is
also extreme in gaining the personal awareness and ideation regarding their own personal
skillset and competencies so that they can be confident when approaching the employers or
the university authorities (Bagheri & Ghaffari, 2017).
It has to be mentioned here that the portfolio can never take the place of the resume, it
is just the attractive portion of the resume which helps the individual to showcase some of his
or her best talents to get to the position. As mentioned by Cadd (2016), the personal
information that an individual incorporates into the professional portfolio is indicative of the