Authors

  1. Ackerman, Carolyn EdD, RN, CHPN
  2. Chappell, Lisa DNP, RN, CRRN

Article Content

Offering nursing students a way to showcase their academic and clinical success throughout their nursing program is vital. This can be accomplished through the use of an audiovisual narrative reflective portfolio. Using PowerPoint or another presentation software, students create slides and narrate a screen-share presentation using a program to save it as an MP4. The use of this process helps refine their presentation skills rather than simply having a physical or digital document of their work. Students are not limited to 1 particular software but have the choice of digitally or manually saving their documents in their own files or on their own computer or thumb drive throughout their nursing program, eliminating barriers to the traditional ePortfolio of access and learning how to use new software. The audiovisual portfolio method offers students a polished presentation that they can share via a link, which can be viewed and listened to by prospective employers. In the portfolio, students reflect on how they are meeting the nursing program outcomes and other program competencies and include a rationale. Students begin their portfolio in the introduction to nursing course, and it is completed in the leadership course, one of the last courses in the nursing program, as a final polished presentation. In the narration, students report their experience connecting the outcomes with what they learned earlier in the nursing program. They actively engage in saving documents throughout the program for their final presentation.