Australian midwifery student's perceptions of the benefits and challenges associated with completing a portfolio of evidence for initial registration : Paper based and ePortfolios

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Gray, Michelle, Downer, Terri and Capper, Tanya. (2019). Australian midwifery student's perceptions of the benefits and challenges associated with completing a portfolio of evidence for initial registration : Paper based and ePortfolios. Nurse Education in Practice. 39, pp. 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003
AuthorsGray, Michelle, Downer, Terri and Capper, Tanya
Abstract

Portfolios are used in midwifery education to provide students with a central place to store their accumulative evidence of clinical experience for initial registration in Australia. Portfolio formats can be paper-based or electronic. Anecdotal discussion between midwifery students in Queensland debated the best format to document the requirements for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) standard 8.11. Midwifery students using paper-based portfolios envisioned that an ePortfolio would be streamline, simple, safe to use, and able to be used anywhere with WIFI, while some students using an ePortfolio expressed a desire to have a paper-based portfolio as a hard copy. This situation called for evidence of a comparison to resolve the debate.

The aim of this study was to investigate midwifery students’ experiences of the benefits and challenges between paper-based and ePortfolios when compiling evidence to meet the requirements for initial registration as a midwife in Australia (ANMAC, 2014).

Keywordsportfolios; ePortfolio; midwifery students; national standards
Year2019
JournalNurse Education in Practice
Journal citation39, pp. 37-44
PublisherElsevier Ltd
ISSN1471-5953
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003
PubMed ID31377679
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85070014302
Page range37-44
FunderUniversity of the Sunshine Coast
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Output statusPublished
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Online08 Jul 2019
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Accepted07 Jul 2019
Deposited10 Nov 2023
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