UTS Nursing E-Portfolio: Professional Identity and Standards

This e-portfolio is a comprehensive document created by a nursing student, designed to demonstrate professional development and commitment to the field. The portfolio includes a professional profile, resume, personal nursing philosophy, and an analysis of professional nursing standards. The student's philosophy emphasizes effective communication, collaboration, and person-centered care, aligning with the UTS Bachelor of Nursing Graduate Attributes. The analysis of professional nursing standards focuses on Standard 2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships, highlighting the importance of genuineness, empathy, and positive regard in establishing and maintaining these relationships. The student discusses how they will demonstrate the development of this standard in clinical practice, demonstrating the application of theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. The portfolio also includes references to support the student's understanding of key concepts and their application to nursing practice.

Running head: E-PORTFOLIO
E-Portfolio
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author’s name

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE PICTURE

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Name of the student
E-mail ID
Contact Number
OBJECTIVE
Patient healthcare assistant in the care of elderly persons in search of a better role, that will
ensure me to use my strong understanding of the practices, show my ability to establish positive
relationships and develop my clinical knowledge in partnership with professional team members.
EDUCATION
SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY PERCENTAGE SCORED PASS OUT YEAR
RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT
JOB ROLE JOB DESCRIPTION WORK DURATION
KEY SKILLS
To be filled by the student

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ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT
JOB ROLE JOB DESCRIPTION WORK DURATION
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
To be filled by the student
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
To be filled by the student
REFEREES
To be filled by the student

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1. Personal Nursing Philosophy
 Communication and Collaboration
Successful clinical exercise should concentrate on distinct nursing methods, and not just
the technological framework. Cooperation among doctors, nurses and other medical
practitioners will increase the understanding of each other's expertise and abilities among the
group participants and will result in continuous improvement in decision-making. Faith,
respect and cooperation describe efficient groups. Efficient communication between the
nursing staff members facilitates efficient teamwork and enables continuity and transparency
within the patient service group. Effective communication promotes collaboration, promotes
coordination and helps to avoid mistakes (Reeves et al. 2017). It is essential for health
organizations to evaluate probable scenarios for bad communication and to ensure that
programs and channels are offered in order to promote group cooperation. Healthcare
organizations are able to significantly improve their clinical results by solving this problem
(Foronda, Williams and McArthur 2016).
 Person centered care
The focus of Person-centered care is to treat people as individuals; to acknowledge their
right as individuals; to build shared confidence and comprehension and to develop
therapeutic interactions. Personal care is not just a simple series of methods, skills or
processes. It is a private approach for nurses and their relatives to come together, connect and
partner, building both social and human ethics and competent abilities. It needs a strong
interest in the private concepts, choices and objectives of others in relation to wellness and
the professional’s abilities and knowledge in systemic exposure and analysis of other

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people's hygiene and subjective feelings with the supreme objective of understanding and
integrating them into an ethical and effective peer exercise. (Edvardsson 2015).
2. Professional Nursing Standards
Standard 2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships
Standards are wide, principle-based, objective accounts articulating registered nurse (RNs)
behavior and achievement needed. Their main aim is to assess the number of results anticipated
by RNs in their exercise and further describe responsibility laid out in laws and regulation. The
therapeutic nurse-patient relation is characterized by common confidence and regard as a helpful
relation that nurtures faith and hope, is self-sensitive, and helps to satisfy the physical, social and
social requirements of your patient by your understanding and ability (Feo et al. 2017). The
therapeutic relationship between the physician and the patient varies both from its social and
intimate connection by enhancing its interaction abilities, human competency knowledge, and
private abilities to improve patients wellbeing. The therapeutic relationship is a main
constructive pillar on which nursing practices are based (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au 2016).
The focal point of the relationship is on the customer's thoughts, encounters, and sentiments.
Innate in a therapeutic (helping) relationship is the nurse’s emphasis on critical individual issues
presented by the patient during the clinical meeting (Feo et al. 2017). The medical attendant and
the patient distinguish regions that need investigation and intermittently assess the level of
progress in the patient. There are certain factors that help in promoting change and growth in
patients which are the vital components for establishing therapeutic and professional
relationships between patient and nurses which are genuineness, empathy, and positive regard
(Wiechula et al. 2016).

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Genuineness is a main characteristic for creating confidence is a self-awareness of one's
feelings as they arise in the relation and the ability to impart them when they fit. Genuinity is the
ability in a therapeutic relationship to approach individuals. Activities, for instance, do not hang
behind the work of nurses, hear or talk to other people without distorting their posts and are
transparent and strong in correspondence with patients. The ability to use therapy
communication instruments fittingly without restrictions is suggested by being genuine in a
therapy relation (Myers 2016).
Empathy is a complicated multidimensional idea that has moral, psychological, enthusiastic, and
conduct parts. Empathy implies that one comprehends the thoughts communicated, just as the
emotions that are available in the other individual. In the nursing practice empathy is an
important feature in a therapeutic relationship both for the better-working patients and for the
patient who capacities at a progressively crude level (Reynolds 2017).
The ability to see someone else as worth speaking of and as someone with characteristics and
achievement potential is a positive respect. Positive respect is regardless. Regard is normally
imparted in a roundabout way by activities as opposed to straightforwardly by words (Wiechula
et al. 2016).
The connection between the nurse and the client is well established and the nurse and
customer functions should be obviously identified. It must be known to the nurse that therapy
relationships differ from one intimate or personal relationship. In a therapeutic relationship
between an infant and a client, the focus is on the needs, thoughts, feelings and objectives of the
client. In other skilled, cultural or intimate areas, the nurse should fulfill private requirements
outside of the relations (Wiechula et al. 2016).

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REFERENCES
Edvardsson, D., 2015. Notes on person-centred care: What it is and what it is not.
Reeves, S., Pelone, F., Harrison, R., Goldman, J. and Zwarenstein, M., 2017.Interprofessional
collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes. Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews, (6).
Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au. (2016). Registered nurse standards for practice. [online]
Available at: https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Statements/
Professional-standards/registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx [Accessed 1 Aug. 2019].
Foronda, C., MacWilliams, B. and McArthur, E., 2016. Interprofessional communication in
healthcare: An integrative review. Nurse education in practice, 19, pp.36-40.
Feo, R., Rasmussen, P., Wiechula, R., Conroy, T. and Kitson, A., 2017. Developing effective
and caring nurse-patient relationships. Nursing Standard (2014+), 31(28), p.54.
Wiechula, R., Conroy, T., Kitson, A.L., Marshall, R.J., Whitaker, N. and Rasmussen, P., 2016.
Umbrella review of the evidence: what factors influence the caring relationship between a nurse
and patient?. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72(4), pp.723-734.
Myers, R.E., 2016. Mental health nursing services. In Handbook of recovery in inpatient
psychiatry (pp. 259-277). Springer, Cham.
Reynolds, W.J., 2017. The measurement and development of empathy in nursing. Routledge.