Making Sense of Nursing Portfolios: A Guide for Students

This text is much needed. Clearly written and engaging, this has the potential to become a gold standard portfolio text.
Roger Watson, Editor of Journal of Clinical Nursing and Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield

Having read this book, I feel that it is not only useful for nursing students, but could be useful for qualified nurses who are working on their continuing professional development folder... As students progress through their course, how they manage their time, their attitude to learning and the goals they set for themselves may change. It is fitting therefore that the first chapter looks at learning in the context of portfolios and includes a time management, desire for learning and self control questionnaire - which although gives no definition to how the student manages their time, could prove to be an interesting activity particularly if completed at the start of a year and then at the completion of the year.
Joanne Starkes, Nursing Student

This accessible book provides a guide to the context of portfolio development and its importance not just to assessment but to the patient experience. All students undertaking pre-registration nursing qualifications are required to complete a portfolio as part of their formal assessment, in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice and to provide evidence of achievements in practice.

Fiona Timmins offers a handy guide to approaching, putting together and developing an effective portfolio, helping you answer questions like:: What should be in my portfolio? How should I present it? How will my portfolio be assessed? Reflection points and portfolio examples make the book easy to use.

Key topics covered include::

• Learning in the context of the portfolio
• The purpose of portfolios
• Reflection and reflective practice
• Competence in nursing
• Portfolio content
• Portfolio structure
• The portfolio in operation