Discussion: Digital Professional Portfolio
Discussion: Digital Professional Portfolio
Creating and maintaining a digital Professional Portfolio enables nursing professionals to quickly and easily provide documentation to employers and others.
In this course, you will develop your Professional Portfolio by drawing on your previous coursework in this Master of Science in Nursing program.
View the following documents from this week’s Learning Resources before you begin assembling and developing your Portfolio:
Student Guide to Creating a Final Professional Portfolio: This document outlines the elements that must be included in your Portfolio
and provides formatting instructions that are clear and professional.
Foundation Requirements for the Walden University Graduate Nursing Professional Portfolio: This document outlines all of the previous course assignments that must be included in your Portfolio.
Professional Portfolio Template: This document serves as the framework for putting together your Portfolio. It includes the Program Outcomes Evidence Chart, which allows you to summarize your achievements and show how you met each program outcome. Consider how the learning activities in your courses helped you meet the Walden University and School of Nursing goals for service, scholarship, and social change as you use this chart.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.