This powerpoint summarizes the advantages, disadvantages, and purposes of e-portfolios in nursing. E-portfolios allow nurses to digitally store and display evidence of their achievements, skills, learning experiences, and professional/personal development over time. Benefits include demonstrating competencies to employers and facilitating personal and professional growth. However, some students struggle with the technological aspects of e-portfolios and do not see them as actively engaging or reflective of their learning. Institutions must ensure students understand the value and provide support to address these challenges.

1. E Portfolios
Created By Eimear Madigan,
3rdyear student nurse.

2. This power point will summarise..
T h e a d v a n t a g e / d i s a d v a n t a g e s a n d p u r p o s e
a n d d r i v e r s a s s o c i a t e d w i t h E P o r t f o l i o s .

3. Allows nurses to display and record the evidence of..
 Achievements,
 Skills,
 Learning,
 Experiences,
 Professional and Personal development.
(Green, Jackson and Wyllie 2013)

4. Beneficial aspects seen from various
submissions
Achievements
A Curriculum Vitae showcases personal achievements for example winning
soccer player of the year.
Achievements are also show cased in reflective assignments as they reveal
achievements a person has made during their clinical placements.
Skills
Skills are displayed from the learning objective achieved in the
action plan and various skills in the Curriculum Vitae.

5. Benefits..
Learning
Reflection reveals learning and allows nurses to keep track of their learning
Experiences
Are discovered through reflection and enables future experiences and situations to be improved on.

6. Use and Purpose of E portfolios in Nursing
Use
Displays learning and demonstrates to an employer
an individuals potential and competencies.
(Malita, 2009 cited in Andrews 2014, p.568)
Purpose Allows nursing students to display their
personal, social and professional development in
relation to nursing.

7. Technical issues associated with E portfolios for example..
Difficulty
 UUU Uploading Information,
 Linking and Navigating Sites,
 Sharing the E Portfolio,
Birks, et al. (2016)

8. Students perceptions on the challenges
associated with E Portfolios.
 Do not think E portfolios reveal their learning from different perspectives.
 Are not aware of the educational experiences associated with e portfolios.
 Do not views E portfolios as a way of creating ownership over their work from
actively engaging in their learning but rather then just an academic piece they
receive feedback on.
Tosh, et al, (n.d.)

9. How to overcome these challenges?
 Institutions must ensure they clearly explain why it is necessary for students
to actively engage in their e portfolios.
 This will ensure students know why they are doing this project and how it will
benefit them in the future.
Tosh, et al, (n.d.)
 It is suggested that E portfolios need to be slowly introduced through out the
course to ensure students are not overwhelmed with the technological
aspect.
Andrews and Cole (2014)

10. References
 Andrews, T., and Cole, C. 2014. Two steps forward, one step back: The intricacies of engaging
with e portfolios in nursing undergraduate education. Nurse Education Today, 35(4), pp.568-
572.
 Birks, M., Hartin, P., Woods, C., Emmanuel, E. and Hitchens, M . 2016. Students perception of
using e portfolios in nursing and midwifery education. Nurse Education in Practice, 18.pp.46-
51.
 Garrett, B.M., MacPhee, M. and Jackson, C., 2013. Evaluation of an eportfolio for the
assessment of clinical competence in a baccalaureate nursing program. Nursing Education
today, 33(10).pp.1207-1213.
 Tosh, D., Light, T.P., Fleming, K. and Hollywood, J. Engagement with Electronic Portfolios:
Challenges from the Student Perspective [pdf]. Edinburgh. Available at:
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jhaywood/papers/Engagement%20with%20Electronic%20Portfolio
s.pdf [Accessed 3rd December 2016].