Writing your nursing portfolio: a step-by-step guide

187 Pages·2011·6.358 MB·English

by  Duffy, Anita, Timmins, Fiona

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1 3 What should your portfolio look like? 50 u
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5 Making sense of your portfolio 97 ]. Co
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7 Using your portfolio in practice 149 1u
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Widening your experience 151 gm
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Helping others and asking for help 155 78ersity
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1 PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK u
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3 “I am delighted to endorse this practical and accessible guide to writing and , Ch
4 developing a portfolio for nurses. Unlike many ‘how-to-do’ approaches to port- iang
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