TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian midwifery student's perceptions of the benefits and challenges associated with completing a portfolio of evidence for initial registration
T2 - Paper based and ePortfolios
AU - Gray, Michelle
AU - Downer, Terri
AU - Capper, Tanya
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - ePortfolio
KW - Midwifery students
KW - National standards
KW - Portfolios
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.nepr.2019.07.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 31377679
AN - SCOPUS:85070014302
VL - 39
SP - 37
EP - 44
JO - Nurse Education in Practice
JF - Nurse Education in Practice
SN - 1471-5953
IS - August
ER -