Assignment - Community Practice Portfolio
This assessment has four parts:
1. Introduce your Professional Practice setting and describe the health services this practice setting provides (200 words). Include artefacts (i.e. photos of the venue entrance, scanned brochures, short videos, voice files etc.).
2. Discuss the roles and responsibilities of your preceptor nurse in the community practice setting you have attended and compare/contrast your observations to the roles and responsibilities described in the literature (1100 words).
3. Find out how the nurses in the community practice setting you have attended support LGBTI persons (seek guidance from your preceptor nurse). Compare/contrast your findings with the current recommendations from the literature (1100 words). Include artefacts (i.e. relevant policies, brochures, pictures of posters, short videos or voice files etc.)
4. Critical Reflection on your community practice (600 words). This part must be structured under the following subheadings:
- Context and details of the situation;
- My thoughts, feelings and concerns;
- Identified areas for professional development;
- Impact on my future career.
A critical reflection is a focused reflective activity, about professional situation/experience (negative or positive) that had meaning and learning potential. Your reflection should incorporate some of the learned in this course theories, for example, patient-centered care, therapeutic relationship or empowerment.
Assignment instructions: When creating artefacts, never take photos of staff, clients/patients (privacy), and avoid tasking photos of the inside of the health facility without permission. Collections of artefacts must be created in My ePortfolio, in VU Collaborate.
Reflection: Please read the example provided by Andre, K., & Heartfield, M. (2011). Nursing and midwifery portfolios: Evidence of continuing competence (2nd ed.). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier. (pages 64-67).
Hospital: North West health hopetoun campus victoria Australia.