1. Nursing Education Portfolio Guidelines

2. Portfolio Notebook Great study tool
Organization of all class materials
Requirement of the Nursing Education Course
Great activity to work on if you finish assignments early.
There will be periodic grading at unannounced times.

3. What do you need? You need a large binder
Loose leaf college rule paper
Construction paper
A copy of your signed syllabus

4. Section 1 of the Notebook

5. Creating A Cover
You will use your notebook to take notes, draw pictures, complete assignments and express yourself on topics dealing with this course. But the cover is so boring!!
It ís up to you to spice it up! Your cover will be a reminder that you are serious about doing your best.

6. Content
Content: Your cover should have the following basic elements in writing somewhere on the cover and easily readable:
The name of your course: 2. The words: Nursing Education Portfolio 3. The class period that you have this course 4. The school year: The Teacher: Mrs. Clenney 6. Your name (at the front right bottom)

7. Visual Content: Information At least 4 images
Use a textbook or utilize the Internet to identify at least two (2) body systems in which you are interested.
Draw or use magazines, or print images from the Internet to illustrate the two systems or areas within the design of your cover. Labeling may help your design.
Incorporate illustrations of nursing concepts (caring, empathy, patience, etc.)

8. Personal Information
Identify at least two aspects of yourself as a person or as a student and place it on the cover. If you are a skateboarding expert, use the skateboard as a symbol for yourself. If you play the violin, use the violin as a symbol for yourself and include it in your cover design. The symbol can be your favorite thing, a hobby, or something special about you.

9. Cover Assignment
Use your creativity to develop a cover you can be proud of. It can be in mixed media, which means you can use photos, crayons, magazine cut-outs, and construction paper in combination to create a cover that reflects your interests. Or maybe you are a computer graphics artist and want to include your own hand drawings as well. Just be sure you have the required content.

10. Cover grading Good luck! Possible Points- 100 points
20pts visual appeal
20pts class information
20pts images/symbols (at least 4)
40 points- completed on time (10 pts. deducted each day the assignment is late)
Good luck!

11. Sample of Cover Sample #1
Using the information given, what grade should the two examples Receive (if turned in on time)?
Sample #2

12. Sample Covers from Last Year

13. Section 2 of the Portfolio

14. Future Goals Section This is your time to brag on yourself.
Let me know you Goals, accomplishments, obstacles you have/or will have to overcome.
Career plans, school plans, where you want to live etc.
Interesting facts about you, etc.
This needs to be 1 page in length, complete sentences, and proper grammar/punctuation.

15. 7 Word Autobiography
I want to know more about you. You will create a 7-Word Illustration of words that represent the field of nursing.
Think of traits/characteristics that a CNA should have

16. Also in this section: Include the following activities
Your Get to know you Facebook page activity
Learning Styles Inventory Activity

17. Section 3

18. Class Rules
The Class Rules are very important! To remind you of the rules, please place your SIGNED syllabus on the inside front cover

19. Table of Contents
Will help you keep portfolio organized and make it easier to locate content
We will work on this as we add content to the notebook

20. Section 4 Class Content

21. Class content sections Bell Work
The first section of the notebook is Bell Work
We will be using ACT Prep questions and medical terminology for our bellwork. You may put multiple bell works on one page but the date must be noted.

22. Notes
After the bellwork section, you will need a section for each set of notes that we take.
The notes need to be easily read
Include any extra material that you are given for study purposes into this section.

23. Skills Check off Sheets
For each skills lesson, their will be a corresponding skills check off list.
You will be checked off on each skill during practice time in class.
These need to be placed in their own section so they can be easily found when grading
If I can not find your skills check off list you will not be able to get a grade for that skill.
Once we start clinical rotations, Include:
date skill was performed during clinical,
paragraph explaining the steps taken
paragraph explaining how the procedure went/how you felt, and what your would do differently now)

24. Section 5
Class documentation

25. Weekly Journal Entry
At the end of each week in the nursing home, you will be responsible for writing an overview essay detailing what you learned, and skills you were able to perform or. Include any interested stories or things that happened to you during that week. This needs to have complete sentences and proper grammar. **Careful do not break HIPAA Law
Must be dated

26. Documentation of Hours
You will document both you clinical and classroom hours throughout this semester.
To do this you create a calendar template and mark each day as a clinical day or classroom day (if clinical day include the hours you were at clinical) If it is a classroom day, include the skill that was discussed

27. Documentation of Assignments
Include any assignments completed into this section.
i.e. projects, worksheets, brochures, teaching plans, written, oral, or digital presentations, etc.

28. Section 6
Job Preparation Section

29. Job documents
Research a local CNA job that interests you, Create and Complete a sample Application for that Job 
Create a resume that you would be able to use either for obtaining a CNA position or to get into a healthcare program of your choice. Write your resume as if you have already passed your exam and have your certification.
Create a Cover letter, and Thank you letter in the format.
Mock or actual job interviews (Write 10 potential interview questions that may be asked when applying for a CNA Job
Write a paragraph explaining why a good resume, cover letter, and thank you note is so important. Include what the correct attire would be for a CNA interview.