Should prospective employees present a professional nursing portfolio at their first interview?
A. Absolutely. It increases the marketability of the interviewee; helps to showcase the knowledge of the prospective employee; allows you to keep all of the CEU’s, contact hours, and seminars in one neat place; and, if you do not interview well, it may be your saving grace. Q. Why should I have a nursing portfolio if I already have the job? A. It will keep your CEU’s and other educational certificates organized and easily accessible if you were to be audited by your board of nursing. It may also show you where your interests lie: If you tend to attend classes about new trends in nursing, you may be a great research nurse. Q. Of all the portfolios you have seen, what characteristics are you most impressed by? A. One employee wrote a paragraph on why she attended the classes she did and what she learned from each of them. Another new grad, one with limited clinical experience, wrote about a difficult patient she received in clinical. She wrote about what interventions she chose and why s
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