Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Purpose of Portfolio: To showcase the things I have learned. To show evidence of my skills
and knowledge in medical surgical nursing and organization and management
particularly in disaster preparedness.
Personal Statement:
a. It is, I think, I profess that my purpose in life is to plant trees under whose shade I
expect not to sit.
b. I believe that as I become more learned the more I must strive to become more
humble.
d. Knowledge and skill learned is knowledge and skill unlearned if it is not enhanced
and shared for the growth of self and your community.
1. LEARNING PLAN
Date What LEARNING activities What prompted you to identify this need and
to you need or want to how will it help your nursing practice?
undertake this
ROTATION? Competency/ professional standard(if related)
August 21,
22, 23
September
4,5,6
September
11, 12, 13
September I want to be able to I want to master this skill because, I have not
18, 19, 20 perform coordination skills had the chance to do this task because it is
with key persons in the our first community duty and it’s always with
community. the guidance of the Clinical Instructor to do
coordination to all key persons.
September
25, 26, 27
October 2, 3,
4
October 16, Triage I want to have a background knowledge and
17, 18 master this skills in prioritization of client’s cases,
recognizing their urgency, and properly
classifying them according to their needs.
December 4,
5, 6
2. RECORD OF THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: Practice Nursing in accordance with existing laws, legal, ethical and
moral principles
After completing this course, the student nurse should be able to:
Date Description of the Hours Reflection (in what way has this SOURCE
LEARNING Activity (involve activity maintained/enhanced
(eg. education d in the your nursing practice –
session, journal activity) knowledge, skills and attributes)
article, online or self-
directed learning
activity)
Aug 18 QUIZ – articles I-III of 45 I learned about the law states QUIZ
the R.A 9173 minutes do’s and don’ts and gives us (Annex II)
idea on violation that people
may do and suffer the
consequences afterwards.
Sept 8 QUIZ – article IV-IX or 1 hour In this quiz we need to apply our QUIZ
RA 9173; Legal knowledge about the articles we (Annex II)
Aspects of Nursing read and we had to prove and
justify our reasons behind nurse’s
liability with the given situations.
As a student nurse we must be
aware of the law that which will
guided as we become a
professional nurses someday in
order to deliver efficient and
effective quality of health care
without committing any violent
act against the patients.
PROGRAM OBJEVTIVE PS4: Practice beginning management and leadership skills in the
delivery of client care and in health program development using a system approach
Date Description of the Hours Reflection (in what way has this SOURCE
LEARNING Activity (eg. (involve activity maintained/enhanced your
education session, journal d in the nursing practice – knowledge, skills
article, online or self- activity) and attributes)
directed learning activity)
Aug Journal Sharing 1 hour I will be sharing the journal QUIZ (Annex II)
14 entitled Performance of head
nurses management functions
and it’s effect on nurses’
productivity. One of the skill is
time management because as
head nurse they should have a
time management to utilize the
team to improved their
performance as a nurse and also
improved their skills. Nurses should
be responsible for maintaining a
safe and caring environment
that promotes health teaching,
assessing patients and families,
response to nurses care as well as
evaluating the effectiveness and
quality of care. As a student
nurse we are teaching how to
become a head nurse and how
to manage the entire shift. Being
a leader as a head nurse, we
should be more responsible for
the patients care and needs.
Sept QUIZ on the theories of 30 Our understanding in different QUIZ (Annex II)
16 Management minutes
theories and how it apply in
context was evaluated through
this quiz because we were asked
to compare and contrast two
different theories.
Sept QUIZ on Nursing 1 hour Since I started my college year, I never QUIZ (Annex II)
23 Organization, Types of had the interest to join any organizations
Leaders & Planning offered by our school but when I was in
my junior year I started to join in any
organizations in nursing. I realized with
this quiz the different qualities and
attributes of leaders, different leadership
styles and how subordinates benefit
from each type.
Oct QUIZ on Planning and 1 hour QUIZ (Annex II)
24 Budgeting
It was quite difficult since we had to dig
the depths of our understanding to come
up with answers that are congruent to
the actual meaning of all the concepts
we were defining.
Pallia CN 111
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE PK1: Apply knowledge of physical, social, natural and health sciences and
humanities in the practice of Nursing
Date Description of the Hours Reflection (in what way has this SOURCE
LEARNING Activity (eg. (involve activity maintained/enhanced your
education session, journal d in the nursing practice – knowledge, skills
article, online or self- activity) and attributes)
directed learning activity)
Aug HOMEWORK - 1 day The care of patients suffering from
18 Introduction to Palliative cancer and especially those facing the
Nursing Care death trajectory appears to be complex
and demanding not only for us, student
nurses but for professional nurses as
well. With this homework, I began to
appreciate the role of the nurse in
providing quality palliative care for
patients across the lifespan and ill-
preparation for us student nurses to care
for cancer patients and deal with death
and dying.
Oct QUIZ - Illness 30 With this quiz, I realized that if carers
6 Trajectories minutes and patients gain a better understanding
by considering illness trajectories this
may help them feel in greater control of
their situation and empower them to
cope with its demands.
Oct QUIZ - Triggers for 15 As a student nurse being aware of the
13 considering the initiation minutes triggers for considering the initiation of
of palliative care palliative care, it may help in planning
of care to meet the patient's
multidimensional needs better, and help
patients and carers cope with their
situation.
Oct QUIZ - Problem with Pain 15 Pain is whatever the patient says it is.
19 minutes Pain is inevitable to patient with life
limiting disease. We, student nurses
play a critical role in managing and
alleviating acute or chronic pain among
critically ill patients with collaboration
to other health care providers. I learned
that multidisciplinary approach is used
to achieve adequate pain control in
critically ill patients and requires nurses
to make informed decisions, collaborate
with the health care team and advocate
for patients.
Nov Midterm Examination 1 hour Cancer is a leading cause of death
10 worldwide and being ill creates a
disruption in normal life. Palliative
Nursing stresses that the nurses’ role is
important when dealing with terminally
ill patients in reducing suffering and
improving the quality of life for patients
and their families in the management of
physical, social, psychological, spiritual
and cultural needs. Nurses play an
important role in developing a caring
and supportive environment that
acknowledges death in order to help
family members to accept and deal with
loss and grief.
PROGRAM OBJEVTIVE PS1: Perform safe, appropriate, humane and holistic care to individuals,
families, population groups and community utilizing process
Date Description of the Hours Reflection (in what way has this SOURCE
LEARNING Activity (eg. (involve activity maintained/enhanced your
education session, journal d in the nursing practice – knowledge, skills
article, online or self- activity) and attributes)
directed learning activity)
Sept NCP - Type 2 DM, 2 hours It was a challenge because we had to
4 Hypertensive read on journals that would relate these
Cardiovascular Dse, separate entities together, since their
Cardiac Dysrhythmia, relation are yet to be fully, and
Essential completely established. Planning of care
Mineralocorticoid of this client was also a challenge, since
Deficiency and Prostate the disease entities heighten each other.
Cancer This is a classic case wherein multiple
discipline participation is needed
because the management is no one
which is typical, and can be grabbed
directly from books.
Nov FNCP - DM and HPN as 3 hours We, student nurses are given the chance
14 Health Deficit to be exposed to different communities
in order to have an experience on the
whole clinical immersion program. With
this activity, It was a challenge since we
need to prioritize a main problem during
interview with family members
involved. And we made sure that
through this we were be able to solve
the issues that was not recognized by the
family.
Dec ERCP - Acute Pain 2 hours As a student nurse, assessment of a
6 patient’s experience of pain is a crucial
component in providing effective pain
management, and I learned that many
factors can influence the patient’s
overall experience and expression of
pain.
3. REFLECTIVE WRITING