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

Michelle Gray; Terri Downer; Tanya Capper

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003

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

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

Michelle Gray, Terri Downer and Tanya Capper

Nurse Education in Practice, Vol.39, pp.37-44

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003

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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).

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Title: Australian midwifery student's perceptions of the benefits and challenges associated with completing a portfolio of evidence for initial registration: Paper based and electronic portfolios
Authors: Michelle Gray (Author) - Charles Darwin University
Terri Downer (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedicine
Tanya Capper (Author) - Central Queensland University
Publication details: Nurse Education in Practice, Vol.39, pp.37-44
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003
ISSN: 1471-5953
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy; School of Health - Midwifery
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451344002621
Output Type: Journal article

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