Standards for Clinical Nursing Education: Portfolio Development

Entry 1: Standard 2.2

Portfolio focusing on two of the Standards for Clinical Nursing (Singapore Nursing Board, 2017). You will develop two entries, each of 800 words and each focussing on a different standard relevant to your area of practice. You should also include an introduction (200 words) and a conclusion (200 words). For each entry, you will analyse literature related to your chosen standard and you must apply both the standard and the literature to your own experience and area of practice. You will be expected to draw upon the relevant learning, teaching and evaluation theories, learnt throughout the module, that are relevant to your chosen standards.

Introduction

Nursing education has its foundation from Florence Nightingale back in the nineteenth century when she transited nursing into a profession through formal education, and made education her philosophy for professional nursing development (Selanders and Crane, 2012). Singapore Nursing Board (SNB) has included nursing education in the Code for Nurses and Midwives (SNB, 2018).

Nursing is a lifelong learning profession, given its wide range of specialities and different patient age groups, thus justifying the need for continuous education, which requires careful planning, implementation and evaluation (Callery, 2000; Eslamian, Moeini, & Soleimani, 2015). SNB (2017) has set up Standards for Clinical Nursing Education (SCNE) with fathomable criteria to maintain nursing competency. Likewise, new staff who transit to a different clinical setting should have sufficient guidance from clinical preceptor together with constructive institutional support to facilitate achievement of clinical competence and a smooth transition (Schmitt and Schiffman,2019). This is consistent with Standards Two and Four from SCNE of SNB; which focus on the learning environment and the role of a clinical preceptor being indispensable in comprehensive clinical nursing education (SNB, 2017). This portfolio intends to show how standard Two and Four influence role transition in new staff under training who have no prior ophthalmic nursing experience.

Introduction: (100 words)

• length of holidays

10 years experienced medical surgical ward

• continent to visit (where you might be working and in what role)

2 years experienced as a Clinical instructor for new nurse

• countries covered (you might identify your standards or criteria here)

standard 2 (learning environment) and standard 4 (role of clinical instructor and clinical preceptors)

Entry 1 (150 words)

• visiting China (Standard) but will select 1 city as a single criterion; (for example under standard 3 clinical learning, if that is the standard you choose, you will select one of the criteria such as 3.2)

Standard 2.2 (refer file 1 page 6 ) I will attached some sample in file 2, pls refer sample

• focus on Nanjing as the city • why visit Nanjing and what have I learnt
• Sun Yat Sen important in Nanjing: will use literature from him to apply to my learning

For each portfolio entry we are looking for you to use relevant literature

Entry 2 (you must choose a different standard: you cannot choose a different criterion from the same standard). (150 words)

• Visiting Antarctic (standard)

Standard 4.6 (refer file 1 page 9) pls refer sample in file 2

• Concerns over global warming (criterion)
• why visit global warming and what have I learnt
• What literature says about global warming, Antarctic and tourist visits

For each portfolio entry we are looking for you to use relevant literature

Conclusion (100words)

• How my holidays have contributed to my learning about world travel
• What were the differences / similarities between my 2 visits (is there similar learning between your 2 standards?
• Where to travel next (future learning, future experience)