Pendora Dawo: Electronic Professional Nursing Portfolio - WSU

This document presents an electronic professional portfolio created by Pendora Dawo, a nursing student at Western Sydney University. The portfolio includes a profile summarizing her personal attributes, academic achievements, and career goals, along with a curriculum vitae detailing her qualifications, employment history, and references. It also features a section on continuing professional development, highlighting completed courses and workshops. A critical reflection is included, which describes a challenging experience with drug calculations, her feelings about it, and her evaluation of the situation. The analysis of the situation and the action plan to improve her skills are also explained. The portfolio adheres to the Registered nurse standards for practice and includes references to support the student's professional development. The portfolio aims to showcase the student's skills and experiences in the field of nursing.

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An Electronic Professional Portfolio
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Profile
My name is Pendora Dawo .I am a nursing student, pursuing Bachelor of Nursing course
from Western Sydney University. I have accomplished a Diploma of Human Resources
Management and Diploma of Business from Australian Business College. I also completed
my high school certificate from Fairvale High School successfully. I am very inspired by the
concept of helping needy people. This concept is the key motivation in pursuing the nursing
degree. The concept encouraged me when I volunteered in work placement for an Aged
Cared Facility before joining the nursing school. I prefer being honest and flexible at work
place. I love to listen every person especially older persons, as they need regards and support.
This tendency of listening with patience helps me to being an empathetic listener. My
friendly and supportive nature help me to improve as a human and as a nurse also. Effective
listening skills help me to reduce probabilities of misunderstandings about information. I am
highly efficient in solving problems for patients, communicating with people, and in time
management. I consider myself as a hardworking person with punctuality and enthusiasms. I
want to serve admitted people and the children medical ward and help those patients by
supporting them. I wish to complete my duty as a health worker by maintaining the Guiding
Principle of Medication management in Residential Aged-care facilities amend by
Department of Health under Australian Government. Hence, I am willing to practise in all
conscience and honourably by fulfilling compulsory guidelines and working principles as
part of a team to provide quality, patient centred care.
C.V.
Personal Details
Pendora Dawo

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15a, Madeline St
Fairfield West 2165
Mob: 04****
Qualifications
Feb. 2016 to date
2015
2014.
Employment History
Nov. 2013 to date
Completed Diploma of Human Resources
Management and Diploma of Business at
Australian Business Academy College (ABA)
Serving customers personally
Answering the phone calls
Pursuing Bachelor of Nursing from
Western Sydney University in Parramatta
Completed Yr. 12
Fairvale High School
Part time Customer Service Assistant
in Kmart Fairfield Forum

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Main Duties
March. 2013 Present Volunteer member at Villawood Aged Care Facility in
Fairfield East NSW 2165
Main Duties
Aug. 2012 present Experienced as an employee at Kmart Parramatta
Main Duties
Referees Abigail Humphreys
Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Volunteering as AIN in Villawood Aged Care
Facility
Helping the elder residents with making their beds
Cleaning their rooms
at Westfield Parramatta 159-
175 Church Street of Parramatta
NSW 2150
Greeting customers
Organising and tidying the work
place

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Western Sydney University
Parramatta.
Email: [e-mail]
Ms. Andrea Soto
English ESL Teacher, Fairvale high school
Ph. 02 9604 3118
Ximena Ruiz
Employment Consultant, Afford Employment
Ph.: 0417 820 623
Hobbies Playing soccer, Dancing and interested in culinary
Continuing professional development (CPD)
 Completed a Diploma of Human Resources Management and Diploma of Business.
 Accomplished a First Aid Certificate at St. John’s Ambulance at the beginning of this
year.
 Appeared three days long workshops on Literacy and Numeracy during the last
semester of college
 Prepared Insulin with the help of the workshop training

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 Joined a Webinar Workshop, which helped me in developing
knowledge ,understanding and concepts regarding structure of essays
 Appeared in Hillsong’s Church Conference, 2016 at Sydney’s Olympic Park
 Intend to pursue two Bioscience classes for every Friday to develop my concepts of
unit.
 Attend workshops for the preparation of PCALS OSCA and clinical or medical
communication at Western Sydney University (WSU) for developing my skills of
communication.
Critical Reflection
Description
In my current job, I administer medication to the residents. We were given to execute
three numeracy tests related to drug calculations, which were included to college tutorial
in PPE2 (Insulin) assessment. We were facing problems of passing at least one test in
drug-calculation test series and I used to make a lot of mistakes. Due to facing difficulties
in understanding of drug calculation formulae, we did not perform well. As a result, I
could not administer Insulin properly. My RN helped me to administer it properly.
Calculating the accuracy of medical dosages is an important factor of these formulae.
Feelings
I was disappointed after receiving the marks of my first two papers from my tutors. I was
so frustrated and could not believe that I got such low marks. I discussed about my fail
marks with my RN and she analysed the reasons why I could not understand the

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formulae. The failed marks broke my confidence and I could not believe how I will
recover my marks for the entire academic session.
Evaluation
I could not understand the reason behind my failure so that I seek help from my RN
concerning the formula of Insulin. I also could not understand why I was unable to solve
all the problems and decode the formulae of the given drug. After listening to me
carefully, she explained details of every questions. Explanations were significant for me
to analyse and to understand the problems.
Analysis
After I explained everything to my tutor, she explained me every details associated
with problems. She explained me clearly, why I could not understand the problems and
failed to interpret the right formula. She showed me an appropriate formula and
described the way I should administer Insulin to a patient’s body in future. In addition,
she handed me a booklet that contain proper information regarding Insulin administration.
She explained me every details associated with the importance of drug calculation and
proper administration of drugs. Medication calculation is significant for drug
administration and monitoring, health status observation, route of drug administrations;
serving the patients with proper medication during the absence of doctors, better patient
assessment (Broyles et al., 2019).
Conclusion
If I could practise more and interpret the right formula during drug test without
getting confused, I would score better marks.
Action plan

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I will practise more and will try to evaluate every step of my preparation. I will work
harder to understand how to implement the right drug for every tests. The practise and
evaluations will help me to gain more knowledge about drugs. After my tutor’s
explanation, I understood that drug calculation methods need more accuracy during test
so in future I will take time in understanding the concepts and in preparation. The better
understanding and appropriate implementation of drugs can help to become a better nurse
in future.
References
Broyles, B., McKenzie, G., Pleunik, S., Page, R., Reiss, B., & Evans, M.
(2019). Pharmacology in Nursing. Cengage AU.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2018.05.001
Gibbs, G. (1988). Learning and doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. Oxford,
England: Further Education Unit, Oxford Brookes University
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2016). Registered nurse standards for practice.
Retrieved from http://www.nursingandmidwiferyboard.gov.au