Assessment 2: Establishment of a professional portfolio
Weighting: 30%
Word count: 800 words
Due Date: Week 12, 7th October 2015, at 5 pm
Submission details: Refer to Submission Requirements (p. 1616) and see also the “Special
instructions for submission of the portfolio” below.
Marking Criteria and Standards: See pages 13–14 Aim of assessment
Professionals require a portfolio to demonstrate their experience, their ongoing professional
development and their reflection on those experiences and activities. Portfolios have a variety of
uses, including: applying for employment or promotion; supporting performance review requirements;
career planning; and applying for credit or enrolment in postgraduate education. One important
reason for nurses to commence a portfolio is to demonstrate compliance with the continuing
professional development (CPD) requirements of their registering body (NMBA). This assessment
aims to enhance students’ understanding of the professional obligation of nurses to keep a portfolio.
It provides students with an opportunity to commence a portfolio that they can revisit and develop,
both during their nursing degree and throughout their professional career. Details
Students will develop an electronic portfolio through an appropriate organisation or Internet-based
site, such as Google Sites. A minimum of 4 sections/web-pages is required at this stage, but students
may add more if they desire. The 4 required sections/web-pages are:
1. Profile (“snapshot” of the student: personal attributes; academic and employment
achievements; brief career; strategies to achieve compliance with NMBA guidelines).
2. Curriculum vitae (personal details; academic and employment history; referees; interests).
3. Continuing professional development (CPD) (past and planned short courses, workshops,
seminars, conferences, working groups or other relevant professional development activities).
4. Based on the Gibbs Cycle (or other reflection framework), critical reflection on a specific
recent event in either a work or education context (not the critical reflection from Assessment
1).
Students will commence inserting information into each section/web-page (200 words for each of the
4 mandated sections/web-pages), noting that information is about the individual student. Students
will submit the URL of their portfolio, ensuring that the marker has access to the site.
As this assessment is a professional portfolio, presentation and academic writing style are important.
Sections 1 and 4 must be written narratively (no dot points or bullets). Sections 2 and 3 may
incorporate dot points or bullets.
There is a word limit of 800 words. Use your computer to total the number of words used in your
assignment. However, do not include the reference list at the end of your assignment in the word
count. In-text citations will be included in the additional 10% word count. If you exceed the word limit
by more than 10% the marker will stop marking at 800 words plus 10%.
For students who may be repeating this Unit, please note that it is not
appropriate to resubmit
work previously submitted for marking. Previously submitted work will require
amendment.
Special instructions for submission of the portfolio.
For Turnitin checking purposes, students are to cut and paste the text from their final portfolio into a
document (.doc, .docx, .rtf), together with the URL for their e-portfolio, for submission
through
Turnitin via the vUWS site. The e-portfolio itself will be marked, not the pasted text, so the formatting
within the text document is not important. Resources Examples may be available on the vUWS site. There are a number of textbooks and resources available through the UWS Library that may
assist you. Please refer to the unit’s vUWS site for specific unit resources

Attachments:

• 1507625827-sylvia portfolio.docx