Mercy Igiehon's Nursing Portfolio: Year 1 Reflections and Practice

This document presents a comprehensive nursing portfolio from a BSc (Hons) Nursing student at Anglia Ruskin University, focusing on Year 1 reflections on professional practice, academic and personal development, and adherence to the NMC Code (2015). The portfolio includes personal details, course information, and an introduction to the portfolio's purpose, emphasizing the importance of linking theory and practice. It outlines guidelines for reflections using Driscoll's model, the inclusion of digital skills certificates, and the demonstration of graduate attributes and NHS values. The student provides detailed reflections on patient care scenarios, inter-professional working, and how they prioritize people and practice effectively, demonstrating their learning and application of nursing principles within a mental health context. The portfolio also includes background information and life experiences relevant to their nursing practice.

Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education
Academic
and
Professional Portfolio
BSc (Hons) Nursing
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Purpose of this Portfolio
The maintenance of a portfolio is a professional requirement of your nursing course at Anglia Ruskin
University.
You will be required to share aspects of this portfolio with registered nurses in practice settings and your
personal tutors in the university.
Future employers may also request to view your portfolio before agreeing to an offer of employment.
This portfolio aims to prepare you to understand and meet the professional
requirements of registered nurses.
The following links provide details of the professional standards underpinning the practices and
regulation of registered nurses:
The NMC Code (2015):
http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/read-the-code-online/
NMC Revalidation:
http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/revalidation/
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Personal Details
Name MERCY IGIEHON
Address 144 GREEN POND CLOSE
Post Code E17 6EF
Telephone [phone]
Student e-mail [e-mail]
Fax
Mobile Number 07456453674
Course of Study NURSING
Year of Intake JAN 18
Nursing Field MENTAL HEALTH (MHN)
Personal Tutor
(Year 1)
PATRICIA HOWLET
Personal Tutor
(Year 2)
Personal Tutor
(Year 3)
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Contents of the Portfolio
Section 1 Introduction, guidelines and background information
Section 2 Year 1: Reflections on professional practice.
Section 3 Year 1: Academic and personal development
Section 4 Year 2: Reflections on professional practice.
Section 5 Year 2: Academic and personal development
Section 6 Year 2: CV and interview preparation
Section 7 Year 3: Reflections on professional practice.
Section 8 Year 3: Academic and personal development
Section 9 Global Citizenship
Section 10 References
Appendix 1 Smart Action Planning
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Section 1 Introduction, Guidelines and Background Information
Section 1a Introduction
The Student Academic and Professional Portfolio has been designed to represent a comprehensive
record of learning achievements throughout your pre-registration course. Many students will bring to
the course life skills that are relevant to practice and these may be recorded within the portfolio in
order to give a complete picture of you as an individual. The portfolio is intended to help you, as a
developing practitioner to record, evaluate and reflect on your progress during your course of study
leading to registration.
Why do nurses need to maintain a portfolio?
Nursing, as a profession, relies on the practitioner being able to link theory and practice to benefit
patient/client care within the practice area. Excellence in nursing can be achieved by reflection on
both successful and unsuccessful strategies in care delivered whilst a student. This developmental
process is facilitated by fostering critical thought and analytical skills through discussion with
academic and clinical staff.
Promoting safe and effective professional practice
The NMC requires all registered nurses to undertake a process of ‘revalidation’ every three years if
they wish to remain on the professional register. This is to ensure that nurses continue to practise
safely and effectively throughout their career. As part of this, nurses must obtain a range of practice
related feedback and provide a number of written reflections demonstrating how they have upheld the
NMC Code (2015). This portfolio has been designed to support your development of the types of
written evidence required for revalidation when you become a registered nurse. It will also enable you
to demonstrate to future employers your ability to develop your professional practice and engage with
the skill of reflection as a strategy for life-long learning.
Developing digital skills for contemporary health care practice
The UK government’s report ‘Personalised Health and Care 2020’, published in 2014, proposes a
framework for digital technology that aims to improve patient experience and outcomes with efficient
services. The intention is to give patients more control over their health and wellbeing, empower carers
and reduce the administrative burden for care professionals. To engage with this agenda, nurses are
required to have a range of digital literacy skills. Each of the modules in your course has a series of digital
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skills embedded in them. On successful completion of the module you will receive a certificate identifying
the digital skills and the level achievement related to these. Please insert these into your portfolio.
Developing graduate attributes
Employers also expect to see evidence of ‘graduate attributes’ from employees who have completed
a degree level course. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these attributes early on in your
course so you can begin develop themes as the course progresses. The expectation is that
graduates will demonstrate attributes that show them to be ambitious, imaginative and collaborative –
all of which reflect the skills required to improve the patient experience. This portfolio will support you
to evidence your achievement of these attributes.
Demonstrating NHS Values
NHS organisations expect health care staff to practise in accordance with the 6Cs and the NHS
Constitution. You are required to provide examples of how you have achieved this within this portfolio
and to discuss these with health care professionals in the practice setting (mentors).
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Section 1 Introduction, Guidelines and Background Information
Section 1b Guidelines
1. The Portfolio is compiled and maintained by you. Consideration must be given to maintaining
confidentiality in relation to patients/clients, staff and practice areas. Should it be necessary
to identify a patient for your reflective development, a pseudonym must be used to maintain
confidentiality (NMC 2015).
2. Reflections in this portfolio should include:
 Reflection on each of the four key aspects of the NMC Code (2015)
 Reflection on feedback from mentors and other health care professionals
 Reflections on inter-professional working
 Reflection on feedback from tutors and peers
 Reflection on feedback from markers
The Driscoll model of reflection (2007) should be used to frame your reflections and learning
from these.
3. Academic and clinical achievements must be recorded prior to the discussion with your
personal tutor. You will need to include results of your assessments and feedback received
related to these.
4. Any certificates received that identify achievements in digital literacy should form part of this
portfolio.
5. A review of your progress towards the development of Anglia Ruskin University graduate
attributes should be completed at the end of each year, with evidence provided to support all
claims made.
6. You should also include details of other activities which have given you broader insight and
experience. This could include, for example, membership of professional bodies, Student
Union, Student Representative for your cohort/ group, extra-curricular activities, visits to other
areas, countries etc., as well as visits to areas of clinical interest, made as part of your
placement.
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At the end of each year of the course you will be required to:
1. Discuss with your mentor in the practice setting,
a) Your reflections on feedback received from mentor and other professionals
b) Your reflections on how you have maintained the NMC Code (2015) in your practice.
c) Examples of how you have upheld the NHS Constitution and 6Cs.
2. Discuss with an alternative registered professional (i.e. not a nurse) in the practice setting,
1. Your positive experiences of inter-professional working
2. The challenges experienced in inter-professional working
3. Discuss with your personal tutor in the university,
a) Your reflections on feedback from your tutor, markers and peers.
b) Your reflections on your personal development.
c) Your development of Anglia Ruskin University Graduate Attributes.
d) Your learning from identified e-modules.
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Section 1 Introduction, Guidelines and Background Information
Section 1c Mode of entry to the course
Please also record any academic qualifications that you hold, this can include
A Levels, GCSEs, NVQs etc.
Entry Qualifications: NVQs, FUNCTIONAL SKILLS LEVEL 2
Other qualifications: FOUNDATION IN BUSSINESS AND HEALTHSOCIAL CARE
MANAGEMENT
Previous employment:
Languages spoken: ENGLISH
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Section 1 Introduction, Guidelines and Background Information
Section 1d Background Information and Life Experience
You may write whatever you believe will be relevant and of interest. You are
advised to include such things as enterprise experience, work experience,
voluntary work (e.g. Parent Teacher Association, Youth organisations),
special talents and interests, travel and other experiences which are often
very relevant to those working with patients/clients.
Voluntary work:
Special interests: I LOVE LISTENING TO MUSIC, DANCING, WATCHING MOVIES
SEWING, COOKING AND TRAVELING
Travel and other experiences: NIGERIA
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Year 1
Reflections
On Professional
Practice
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Section 2 Year 1: Reflections on Professional Practice
(To be completed by the end of Module 2)
Section 2a Reflection on professional behaviours and skills in relation to the NMC Code
(2015) using Driscoll’s Model of Reflection (2007) (Maximum 250-300 words)
Key Value and Principle 1: Priorities People
What? (Describe an example from practice related to prioritising people)
On the 10th of May 2018 I was with my coach (mental health nurse) at Grays Hall going for meeting to
discuss a case prior to a home visit, she had a call from one of the patient who is a she is the care
coordinator to, the patient was to come in for appointment by 12pm but the call came in about
10.45AM and she said she will not be come for the appointment because of how she was feeling that
she is having urine leakage, she had urine infection in the previous days. The patient was stressed
and confuse, she has history of not sleeping at night and having argument with her husband who she
thinks he’s going to leave her. The patient is living with her husband, son and daughter.
So what? (Identify the key issues from this example – using evidence based literature where
appropriate)
My coach put the meeting forward in order to go to the patient house because she saw that speaking
to the patient on phone was not calming her down or even making her come to grays halls as to the
schedule appointment, so my coach decided that we go to the patient house to help her in the
situation. We got there and she told us she has not be sleeping, my coach ask her if she has taking
her medication that morning and previous days and eating well? She said yes, after listening to her
and suggesting on what to do to avoid argument which makes her aggregated. My coach told her bto
take clozapine (oral) before we left her.
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