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Portfolios for Nursing, Midwifery and other Health Professions

  • 4th Edition - December 12, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lynette Cusack, Morgan Smith
  • Language: English

Portfolios for Nursing, Midwifery and other Health Professions is a practical guide providing detailed strategies for developing a quality portfolio that will assist you to review… Read more

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Portfolios for Nursing, Midwifery and other Health Professions is a practical guide providing detailed strategies for developing a quality portfolio that will assist you to review your professional practice, assess your learning and career planning, direct your continuing professional development and effectively communicate your professional achievements.

Written by Lynette Cusack and Morgan Smith, this fourth edition will help you understand the drivers and benefits of portfolios and how to design and evaluate a quality portfolio in order to meet the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) annual registration requirements.

Key features

  • Clearly outlines what a portfolio is, how it is used and why different types of portfolios
  • are required for different purposes
  • Supports understanding of the relationship between portfolios and the AHPRA regulatory requirements of self-declaration and practising in accordance with professional practice standards
  • Assists in understanding and applying reflection techniques in professional development, learning and portfolio use.

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Table of contents

1.Professional practice and portfolios: Why is a professional portfolio important?

2.Portfolio styles and models

3.Reflection and reflective practice

4.Evidence: What do I have and what do I need?

5.Compiling your portfolio

6.Portfolio evaluation and assessment

7.Examples of health practitioners' approaches to planning and evaluating CPD

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 10, 2020
  • Language: English

About the authors

LC

Lynette Cusack

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Adelaide Nursing School, University of Adelaide, South Australia

MS

Morgan Smith

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Adelaide Nursing School, University of Adelaide, South Australia