ePortfolio Plan: Nursing Degree, Aged Care, Australia

This ePortfolio plan outlines a registered nurse's professional journey and future career aspirations. The student, with a nursing diploma from India and experience as a registered nurse in the UK, plans to complete a degree and work as a registered nurse in Australia, with the ultimate goal of managing a healthcare facility. The plan details the student's achievements, including experience in aged care, and emphasizes the importance of lifelong learning and reflective practice in enhancing clinical expertise. The ePortfolio will be based on a student-centered learning framework, incorporating the 'Plan-Do-Review' cycle, and utilizes FolioSpaces for its development. The student highlights adherence to nursing standards, the significance of suitable skill-mix, and addresses the unique needs of the aged population, demonstrating a commitment to providing effective and compassionate care. The plan references relevant literature on lifelong learning, aged care nursing, and nursing proficiency standards to support the nurse's goals.

Running head: ePORTFOLIO
ePortfolio
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
In this ePortfolio there will be a brief and succinct description about myself and my
future career plans. This portfolio will help in determining my academic accomplishments
and employment experience. It will help me conduct self-assessment through reflective
process and enhance my self-esteem and self-confidence. Furthermore, it will also assist me
increase the recognition for my abilities. The platform of FolioSpaces will be used for
making the portfolio based on its popularity (Foliospaces.org, 2019).
Achievements and experience
My name is XYZ, but several people call me XXX. I have been working as a
registered nurse in the United Kingdom since 2006. I had completed my Diploma in Nursing
in 2000, in India and soon became a qualified nurse. I also have the prior experience of
working as a Night Registered Nurse. I have acquired priceless experience and schooling
over all these years in nursing profession, and have also utilized all opportunities by taking
benefit of learning scopes that have supported me in reinforcing my nursing expertise and
skills. My tenure as a registered nurse has also provided me assistance in increasing my
clinical expertise by reflecting on the incidents that I have encountered so far, thereby
facilitating my decision making skills and delivery of quality care practices in regular nursing
practice.
Framework of lifelong learning
There is mounting evidence for the fact that lifelong education in nursing is related to
an enhancement in the performance of the professionals and is directly associated with their
success in clinical practice (Davis, Taylor & Reyes, 2014). Despite the considerable attention
that has been paid to the concept for lifelong education, there is an inadequacy of strategies
that must be adopted for this procedure. I hold the opinion that continuing education even

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after attaining an educational degree helps in gaining novel and vast information that can be
easily implemented during care delivery, with the aim of improving optimal health and
outcomes among the patients.
Aged care nursing
The domain of aged care encompasses the provision or delivering care services for
meeting the unique preferences and health demands of the older individuals in the nation.
Time and again it has been established that the role of an aged care nurse is generally
concerned with covering an array of duties that includes providing medications to the older
patients, conducting a comprehensive assessment of the patients, evaluating vital signs,
changing dressings, and forming a liaison with the physicians (Algoso, Peters, Ramjan &
East, 2016). While working as a night RN in aged care facility, I was involved in directing
the carers such as, the staff who were responsible for lifting the patients. I also took all
possible efforts for meeting their personal needs such as, grooming and feeding.
At the time of admission of a patient to the healthcare facility, there often occurs an
unsettling period that makes it necessary for providing the patient with much required support
from the staff and family members, with the aim of enabling a smooth transition for the
patient (Aldeen et al., 2014). Hence, I have always been proactive in caring for the patients
and providing assistance and support to their family members in resolving their concerns and
apprehensions about the treatment modalities. The standards of proficiency for registered
nurses in the UK require the professionals to represent necessary attributes, skills, and
knowledge while caring for patients of all ages, and also expects nurses to reflect on the
strategies that can deliver effective and compassionate nursing care (NMC, 2018). I can
proudly say that I have shown adherence to the codes of practice under most circumstances.
However, suitable nursing skill-mix is essentially allied to delivering apposite care in

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Australia. In addition, the aged population living in Australia suffers from a range of
comorbidities, and chronic health disorders (Willis, Reynolds & Keleher, 2016).
Framework
The ePortfolio will be based on development of an approach and/or framework that
focuses on student-centred learning, taking into consideration the impacts of online
technology. Thus, it will focus on the ‘Plan-Do-Review’ cycle that will encompass collection
of artefacts from previous experiences related to nursing curriculum and care delivery in aged
care settings, followed by selection and linking the artefacts to online web pages in order to
obtain a sound understanding (Mazlan, Sui & Jano, 2015). Comparing between the
achievements, reflecting upon past experiences and undertaking a reflective commentary will
enable gauging the already existent clinical skills, and the areas that require improvement.
Conclusion
Hence, with the aim of increasing my proficiency and clinical expertise and serving
the aged population in Australia, I intend to complete my current degree and play the role of a
RN in Australia. It is expected to be completed within two years. My future plans also focus
on gaining the capacity to manage a complete healthcare place.

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References
Aldeen, A. Z., Courtney, D. M., Lindquist, L. A., Dresden, S. M., Gravenor, S. J., & GEDI‐
WISE Investigators. (2014). Geriatric emergency department innovations: preliminary
data for the geriatric nurse liaison model. Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society, 62(9), 1781-1785.
Algoso, M., Peters, K., Ramjan, L., & East, L. (2016). Exploring undergraduate nursing
students' perceptions of working in aged care settings: A review of the
literature. Nurse Education Today, 36, 275-280.
Davis, L., Taylor, H., & Reyes, H. (2014). Lifelong learning in nursing: A Delphi
study. Nurse education today, 34(3), 441-445.
Foliospaces.org. (2019). Free ePortfolios since 2008. Retrieved from
https://www.foliospaces.org/
Mazlan, K. S., Sui, L. K. M., & Jano, Z. (2015). Designing an eportfolio conceptual
framework to enhance written communication skills among undergraduate
students. Asian Social Science, 11(17), 35.
Nursing and Midwifery Council. (2018).Standards of proficiency for registered nurses.
Retrieved from https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/education-
standards/future-nurse-proficiencies.pdf
Willis, E., Reynolds, L., & Keleher, H. (Eds.). (2016). Understanding the Australian health
care system. Elsevier Health Sciences.