Discussion: Professional ePortfolio
Discussion: Professional ePortfolio
Question Description
Create a professional online portfolio and resume. This is your final course evaluation. You will create a professional ePortfolio and resume for this assessment to showcase your achievements and competence in various areas for job search or advancement conversations. PROFICIENCY DEMONSTRATION
You will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria by successfully completing this assessment:
Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve the outcomes of patients, systems, and populations.
Explain how at least two chosen artifacts demonstrate personal development and accomplishments in leading people and processes to improve patient, system, and population outcomes.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, increase patient safety, and lower healthcare costs.
Explain how at least two selected artifacts demonstrate personal growth and achievements in transforming processes to improve quality, increase patient safety, and lower healthcare costs.
Competency 6: Work collaboratively across disciplines to improve patient and population outcomes.
Describe how at least two selected artifacts demonstrate personal growth and accomplishments in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Integrate professional standards and values into practice (competency 8).
Explain how at least two artifacts and a professional resume were chosen to demonstrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Use correct grammar, spelling, and APA style to present a well-organized ePortfolio in a clear and professional manner.
You should finish this assessment last.
A portfolio is an excellent way for nurses to “record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, development, and
learning, not only for themselves, but also for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers, and peers” (Green, Wyllie, & Jackson, 2014, p. 8). You begin to track, reflect on, and evaluate your own learning and growth over time as you collect the artifacts that best showcase your strengths. PREPARATION
You will be creating a professional ePortfolio and resume for this assessment, which you will take with you after completing your program. Review the following resources as needed to help you complete this assessment: ePortfolio.
How to Begin with Pathbrite ePortfolio [PDF].
Building an Effective Resume – Capella University Career Center
INSTRUCTIONS
Your ePortfolio will be focused on showcasing your growth and accomplishments in the context of the following course competencies for this assessment:
Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve the outcomes of patients, systems, and populations.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, increase patient safety, and lower healthcare costs.
Competency 6: Work collaboratively across disciplines to improve patient and population outcomes.
Integrate professional standards and values into practice (competency 8).
Complete the following in your ePortfolio for each competency:
Create a competency area in your ePortfolio and label it with the course competency number or the competency language.
Place the two artifacts (assessments) that you believe best demonstrate your accomplishments or growth in relation to the competency in the corresponding ePortfolio area.
Write 2-3 paragraphs for each competency detailing how the artifacts demonstrate your accomplishments or growth in the competency so that reviewers can easily understand your achievements and strengths. Place this in the appropriate ePortfolio area alongside your chosen artifacts.
Include a professional resume that highlights your professional standards and values in the Competency 8 section of your ePortfolio. Consult the Capella University Career Center’s resources, such as the Capella Career Center: Resume Rubric. Please carefully read the scoring guide to ensure you understand what is required for a distinguished score: Explain how at least two chosen artifacts demonstrate personal growth and accomplishments in leading people and processes to improve patient, system, and population outcomes.
Explain how at least two selected artifacts demonstrate personal growth and accomplishments in the area of transforming processes to improve quality, increase patient safety, and lower healthcare costs.
Describe how at least two selected artifacts demonstrate personal growth and accomplishments in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Explain how two selected artifacts and a professional resume, at the end, demonstrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Use proper grammar and spelling to communicate ePortfolio in a clear and well-organized manner.
REQUIREMENTS ADDITIONAL
Formatting in APA style: Check that the in-text citations and reference list adhere to current APA style. As needed, consult the APA Module.
Reference
J. Green, A. Wyllie, and D. Jackson (2014). A review of the literature on electronic portfolios in nursing education. 4-8 in Nurse Education in Practice, 14(1).
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.