Progress made throughout the nursing program

Progress made throughout the nursing program

Progress made throughout the nursing program

Purpose: To “showcase” credentials, work, and accomplishments while a student nurse, reflect on progress made throughout the nursing program, address professional goals, and present nursing philosophy. Contents of the portfolio will be helpful in promoting your best work during an employment interview.

Course Outcome: Develop a portfolio to articulate skills and competencies related to career and prepare a professional résumé and curriculum vitae.

Instructions: All required content will be uploaded via the Career Center in Canvas. The portfolio must contain all documents to be graded, be professionally done, and submitted on the due date per the syllabus.

Required Content:

Cover letter and thank you letter

Self-evaluation paper that addresses your growth as a nurse in relation to clinical experiences, education, maturity, and professionalism. How has PRICE model impacted you?

Professional goals, how will you achieve them? (1 short term/1 long term)

Letters of recommendations signed (2)

EXPLANATTION ABOUT PRICE MODEL: P is for Professionalism, R is for Respect, I is for Integrity, C is for Caring, E is for Engagement.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.