Success with Your Professional Portfolio for Nursing Students

This book is a simple, quick and easy to use guide to building a professional portfolio for nursing students. Students are required by the NMC to keep an ongoing record of achievement, to demonstrate their competence at each stage of their programme. The portfolio is an essential part of the assessment of practice to demonstrate nursing competence. This book gives a step-by-step and practical explanation of how to compile a professional portfolio to succeed in these assessments. It can be used throughout nursing programmes and in initial nursing roles, where portfolios are an essential tool for interviews and employee appraisals.

Suzanne Reed is an experienced General Manager with many years working at strategic and operational levels in the NHS and Independent Sector. Senior posts held include: Ward Manager in medicine and neurology, Director of Academic Affairs for development and assessment of pre- and post-registration nursing and midwifery programmes, and Head of Department and General Manager for clinical quality and multidisciplinary education. Suzanne is currently a reviewer for the approval of NMC nursing preparation programmes and a managing reviewer for monitoring NMC nursing, midwifery and health visiting programmes.