Developing Your Professional Portfolio - PDQ Care : Professional Development for Quality Care

The obligation is now firmly on all nurses and midwives based in hospitals and in the community to prepare and maintain a personal professional portfolio (basically a formal and well presented expanded curriculum vitae).

The practitioner purchases their portfolio - a ringbinder /document holder with empty pages and guiding section titles - and it is up to them to fill it with appropriate, coherent evidence of all education and practical experience which has a bearing on their professional practice.

Maintenance of a detailed and impressive professional portfolio should enhance their career progression.

Part of Churchill Livingstone's "Professional Development for Quality Care" (PDQ) series of open learning materials for professional nurses, "Managing your Professional Portfolio" is among the first publications to aid nurses to produce and store evidence of learning in a professional and effective manner.

The open learning approach is particularly effective in this area because its interactive style encourages self awareness and reflection - essential personal skills to enable the practitioner to prepare evidence of learning for inclusion in the portfolio. In practical terms it comprises a workbook and background reader, both contained in an attractive ring binder (as previous packs in this series).