Posted: November 25th, 2015

Portfolio

Portfolio

Introduction:
A professional portfolio will showcase your knowledge and skills to prospective employers
and will increase your marketability as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. This portfolio helps
you, as a nurse, to hone in on the concepts, strengths, and critical thinking abilities that
define personal nursing practice. Throughout your time at WGU, you have developed skills
and knowledge that separate your practice as that of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. Items
that display your skills and knowledge will be showcased in this professional portfolio. You
should organize your portfolio around the following themes: Quality and Safety, Advanced
Evidence-Based Practice, Applied Leadership, and Community and Population Health.
Portfolio Requirements:
Use the Web Folio Builder in Task Stream to create your professional portfolio. (The Web
Folio Builder is located in the Folios & Web Pages link located in the static bar below the
Task Stream logo. Follow the on-screen instructions to create your portfolio. For more
information on how to create your portfolio using the Web Folio Builder in TaskStream, see
the “Building Your Portfolio” web link.) Your portfolio should include the following minimum
requirements, as well as any other documents you choose to include:
A. Table of Contents
1. Include a table of contents that provides a brief description of each portfolio
component.
B. Professional Summary
1. Include an updated professional resume.
2. Include an executive summary in which you do the following (suggested length of 3-
4 pages):
a. Explain how the artifacts in your portfolio represent you as a learner and a
healthcare professional.
b. Discuss how your portfolio represents your professional strengths.
c. Discuss any challenges you encountered during the progression of your program.
i. Explain how you overcame these challenges.
d. Explain how your coursework helped you meet each of the nine nursing program
outcomes.
e. Analyze how you fulfilled the following roles during your program:
i. scientist
ii. detective
iii. manager of the healing environment
f. Discuss how your skills and knowledge have evolved or progressed in terms of
personal growth and learning.
3. Provide a completed copy of the attached “Professional Reference Questionnaire.”
C. Quality and Safety
1. Discuss the importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate
for your future role as a professional nurse.
2. Include a copy of your IHI certificate of completion.
D. Evidence-Based Practice
1. Include a summary of your Evidence-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research
course (suggested length of 1 page) in which you do the following:
a. Discuss how you are able to evaluate current primary research and apply the
concepts to your nursing practice. Include the following in your discussion:
• relevancy and believability of data
• differences between quality improvement and research (places and uses of
each)
• differences between primary and secondary research and resources and the
implications of each in clinical practice
b. Reflect on how your experience in this course helped you achieve excellence in
evidence-based practice.
Note: “95% of employers rate WGU nursing graduates as very good or excellent in
‘evidence-based practice’” (Western Governors University, 2012).
E. Applied Leadership
1. Include an abstract of your Learning Leadership Experience task (suggested length of
one paragraph to one page) in which you do the following:
a. Discuss the importance of professional collaboration for effective nursing
leadership.
2. Include an abstract of your Professional Roles and Values course (suggested length
of one paragraph to one page) in which you do the following:
a. Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you
throughout your nursing career.
F. Community and Population Health
1. Include an abstract of your Community and Population Health task (suggested length
of 1 page) in which you do the following:
a. Summarize what you learned during your Community Health Nursing task.
b. Discuss how what you learned led to your community diagnosis.
c. Discuss how your initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with your
population.
2. Discuss the importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.
3. Include a copy of your AMNH certificate of completion.
G. Appendix
1. Include a sample of your prior work that illustrates your knowledge and
understanding of evidence-based practice concepts. Select one of the options below
for your sample.
• EvidenceBased Practice task 1
• EvidenceBased Practice task 2
• EvidenceBased Practice task 3
• Organizational Systems task 2
2. Include a sample of your prior work that illustrates your knowledge and
understanding of community health nursing practice concepts. Select one of the
options below for your sample.
• Community Health Nursing didactic task 1
• Community Health Nursing didactic task 2
• Community Health Nursing didactic task 3
• Community Health Nursing didactic task 4
• Community Health Nursing field experience task 1
You may also want to include the following optional materials in your appendix:
• the attached “Nursing Conceptual Model” and “Nursing Outcomes”
• a link to the current IHI Course Catalog
3. Include the sample of your prior work that illustrates your knowledge and
understanding of leadership nursing practice concepts. Select the option below for
your sample.
• Leadership Learning Experience task
H. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format

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