Assignment on Professional Practice Portfolio

Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PORTFOLIO
Professional Practice Portfolio
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Professional Practice Portfolio and its use
Professional practice portfolio
A professional practice portfolio (PPP) can be described as a systematized assortment of
evidence that delivers the details of the nurse's continuous professional exercises, knowledge and
growth (Clarke & Boud, 2018). It can involve the information regarding the nurse’s professional
education and years of practice, recent and previous work experience and the functions in the
previous job and other related activities. The PPP usually include several components such as
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 Curriculum vitae (CV)
 Details of presence at working days and seminars and the influence on the professional
development and clinical practice
 Commentary on the nurse’s participation with relevant unit activities
 Guidelines for the nurse to use when taking the responsibility of reflective practice
 Mementos from the clinical practice such as photographs.
Use of PPP
In order to keep a shred of evidence, the nursing staffs are using the professional practice
portfolio as a source of evidence where they can keep a record of what they learnt and what they
have reflected upon. The professional portfolios help them to show that they have completed
their learning program and have met their professional requirements. The PPP can help the
nursing members to keep and maintain their revalidation or registry records in one place; as it
will help them to update the records smoothly without any complications whenever required, for

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instance in performance reviews and job applications (Cope & Murray, 2018). All nursing
members are needed to start doing the consistent professional development exercises to manage,
modernize and enhance their experience and practice, as well as they can utilize their portfolio to
record these activities. Developing and managing a portfolio can also allow the nursing members
to recognize their strong point and learning requirements, and to create a learning strategy to
fulfill these requirements (Cope & Murray, 2018).
Benefits and challenges of using a PPP
It is common for the nurses to use the professional practice portfolio, but there are certain
benefits and challenges of using the PPP. The PPP help in delivering a method of recording and
assessing the growth of the nurse in a more appropriate manner compared to those of selected
response tests can (Sakhieva, Gilmanshina, Gilmanshin, Kosmodemyanskaya, Akchurina &
Sagitova, 2015). They help the nurse to self-evaluate, reflect and gain ownership of learning. But
also, there are certain challenges such as; a decent portfolio valuation can take a lot of time of
both the organization and also of the evaluator. This time could have helped in one-to-one
interviews; also this time could have helped the nurse to comprehend the objective and
framework of the portfolio, and make choice regarding which work sample should be collected,
and to self-reflect (Sakhieva, Gilmanshina, Gilmanshin, Kosmodemyanskaya, Akchurina &
Sagitova, 2015).
Difference between management and leadership
In every community, group, political group, school, hospital or any organization, there
remains a person who has the significant qualities which are required to influence a person, in
order to fulfill the tasks willingly and enthusiastically. Such skill is called as leadership (Grint,
Jones, Holt & Storey, 2016). Leadership cannot be considered to be similar to the management,