Transforming Nursing Practice: A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Professional Portfolio

By Suzanne Reed, an experienced General Manager with many years of working at strategic and operational levels in the NHS and Independent Sector.

This book is part of the Transforming Nursing Practice series, tailor-made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is designed to be affordable, mapped to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters, and packed with active learning features to help students apply theory to practice.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Professional Nursing Portfolio

This practical guide is a must-have for nursing students and qualified nurses looking to understand what a successful portfolio should look like. Dr. Gabrielle Thorpe, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, praises this “fantastic little book” for its ease of use and effectiveness in helping students create a professional portfolio.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requires students to keep an ongoing record of achievement to demonstrate their competence at each stage of their program. This book provides a step-by-step and practical explanation of how to compile a professional portfolio, making it an essential part of the assessment of practice to demonstrate nursing competence.

Key Features of This Book

• Excerpts from other students’ portfolios show what makes a good portfolio
• Step-by-step activities guide you through building your own portfolio
• Linked to the latest NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters for pre-registration nursing education

This book is a valuable resource that can be used throughout nursing programs and into your nursing career as a tool to help with interviews, appraisals, and the NMC revalidation process.

Publication Details:

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Edition: Second edition (30 May 2015)
• Language: English
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 132
• ISBN-10: 1473916313
• ISBN-13: 978-1473916319