E-Portfolio Project: Enhancing Nursing Career and Skills

This document is an e-portfolio project designed for nursing students, focusing on career development and professional reflection. The project outlines the aim of creating an e-portfolio to record and showcase an individual's growth and achievements, emphasizing its role in career advancement. It includes a detailed plan with materials such as resumes, educational certificates, and reflections on clinical experiences. Theoretical materials, like strategies for e-portfolios and a timeline for completion, are provided. The Gibbs reflective cycle and Patricia Benner's Contribution to Nursing Theory are selected as frameworks for reflective journals. The document also features a list of selected references to incorporate into the e-portfolio, providing a comprehensive guide for nurses to build and maintain a professional portfolio using the Weebly platform.

E-portfolio - Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
AIM OF DEVELOPING E-PORTFOLIO .....................................................................................1
EMERGING ROLE OF E-PORTFOLIOS IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT ................................1
MATERIAL & ARTEFACTS.........................................................................................................1
SELECTION OF THEORETICAL MATERIAL ..........................................................................2
Strategies for e-Portfolios to assist in career development....................................................2
TIMELINE FOR COMPLETION...................................................................................................2
FRAMEWORK/THEORY TO ASSIST WITH REFLECTIVE JOURNALS................................3
SELECTED REFERENCES TO INCORPORATE IN E-PORTFOLIO........................................4

INTRODUCTION
An e portfolio is an evolving electronic or online resource that helps in recording, storing
and the information related contemplation and learning for an independent learner. An e portfolio
is a catalogue that illustrate the professional and personal growth of an individual. It also
demonstrate practices based on evidences and determine the areas for future development and
improvements (van der Schaaf and et.al., 2017).
AIM OF DEVELOPING E-PORTFOLIO
The main objective of this e portfolio is to keep an up to date and accurate record of the
entire nurse's career. Creating a professional nursing portfolio is an effective way to preserve
education, professional and clinical achievements. A professional portfolio is the documentation
of the professional achievements, skills and nursing experience. It helps nursing students to
reflect on their professional and clinical growth from the time of their admission and developing
short term and long term objectives or goals. Weebly is used as a platform for creating a e
portfolio (Cevik and et.al., 2018).
EMERGING ROLE OF E-PORTFOLIOS IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT
An e portfolio provides an opportunity to students for reflecting on their diverse and
unique approaches to learn and generate evidence of the employability skills values by graduate
employers that consist self management, digital literacy, innovation and creativity, problem
solving and communication etc (Händel, Wimmer and Ziegler, 2018). Developing an e portfolio
helps to support the preparation for academic application and professional interviews. It is a
unique method for sharing experience and skills.
MATERIAL & ARTEFACTS
I will use various materials and artefacts to develop my e portfolio as mentioned below -
 Resume
 Educational certificates
 Professional photographs
 Awards
 Former Education
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 Reflections – Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Prioritizing Care
 Philosophy
 Person Centered Care
 Evidence Based Practice
 Clinical experiences
 Short- and Long-term goals for Future nursing professional practice
 Leadership roles
 Nursing Code of Conduct
 Hobbies or Interest
SELECTION OF THEORETICAL MATERIAL
Strategies for e-Portfolios to assist in career development
E-portfolios have obtained strength as a tool to help nurses in managing their digital
identity, developing connections among their learning outcomes and experiences as well as
demonstrate their achievements to prospective employers (Encalada and et.al., 2017). Strategies
such as e-tools, display functions and tagging allow e-portfolios to support career development.
TIMELINE FOR COMPLETION
Plan for e portfolio
Week 1 Introduction to the course along with the Readings and Activities for
e-Portfolio.
Week 2 Creating an action plan for the e-Portfolio
Week 3 Various requirements for becoming an effective nurse professional
through development of e portfolio(Powell and et.al., 2018).
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Week 4 Identifying ways to gather essential items of evidence
Week 5 Role and responsibilities of Internal & External Audiences or
Stakeholders as an audience of the e-Portfolio.
Week 6 Evolution of e-Portfolio by assembling the gathered evidence.
Week 7 Completion of e-Portfolio
Week 8 Hand in after being reviewed by peer
FRAMEWORK/THEORY TO ASSIST WITH REFLECTIVE JOURNALS
In order to reflect upon self learning, studies and achievements Gibbs reflective cycle is
selected as a framework. These reflection framework consist six stages including description,
feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. It helps to reflect effectively upon any
event, self or any occurrence (Cook, 2017). Another theory known as Patricia Benner's
Contribution to Nursing Theory will be used in the e portfolio.
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SELECTED REFERENCES TO INCORPORATE IN E-PORTFOLIO
van der Schaaf, M., Donkers, J., Slof, B., Moonen-van Loon, J., van Tartwijk, J., Driessen, E.,
Badii, A., Serban, O. and Ten Cate, O., 2017. Improving workplace-based assessment
and feedback by an E-portfolio enhanced with learning analytics. Educational
Technology Research and Development, 65(2), pp.359-380.
Cevik, A.A., Shaban, S., El Zubeir, M. and Abu-Zidan, F.M., 2018. The role of emergency
medicine clerkship e-Portfolio to monitor the learning experience of students in different
settings: a prospective cohort study. International journal of emergency medicine, 11(1),
p.24.
Encalada, J., Santiesteban, K., Portela, Y., Cruz, S. and Arboleda, M., 2017, November. The
development of e-portfolio for Lesson Study. In Information Systems and Computer
Science (INCISCOS), 2017 International Conference on (pp. 274-278). IEEE.
Cook, E., 2017. Career Development, Employability and Entrepreneurship Academic Action
Plan for Science.
Powell, K., Le Roux, E., Banks, J.P. and Ridd, M.J., 2018. Developing a written action plan for
children with eczema: a qualitative study. Br J Gen Pract, 68(667), pp.e81-e89.
Händel, M., Wimmer, B. and Ziegler, A., 2018. E-portfolio use and its effects on exam
performance–a field study. Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-13.
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