Nursing and Midwifery Portfolio
The Nursing and Midwifery Portfolio is ONLY available to all nurses and midwives in Scotland (including students) AND nurses in the Defence Medical Services.
The Nursing and Midwifery Portfolio has been developed to enable nurses and midwives across Scotland to generate, record, reflect upon and share evidence of their learning and continuing professional development. This evidence can then be used by nurses and midwives as part of appraisals, career development, programmes of learning and for regulatory purposes, including NMC revalidation.
Terms and Conditions
To access and use the Nursing and Midwifery Portfolio you must read and accept the terms and conditions under which Portfolio is provided to you by NHS Education for Scotland (NES).
- You must be a nurse or midwife in Scotland or a nurse in Defence Medical Services across the UK
- You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and in notifying NES if you believe that the security of your password has been compromised
- Access to the information/evidence contained within your user account is restricted to you and your own use, you will however be able to share your information/evidence with others of your choosing
- Administrators will have access to your profile only to assist with any support requests that you make
- Use of Portfolio in no way overrides or supercedes your responsibility for exercising your professional judgement. The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives (NMC 2015) and How to revalidate with the NMC (NMC 2016) continue to apply as appropriate to all aspects of your use of Portfolio, in particular confidentiality and use of non-identifiable information
- You must NOT use Portfolio to obtain feedback directly from patients, clients, service users or carers
- You are responsible for determining what information/evidence is retained within your Portfolio and for how long
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With regard to use of the Portfolio by nurses and midwives in Scotland (excluding those in the Defence Medical Services), NHS Education for Scotland
(http://nes.scot.nhs.uk/privacy-and-data-protection.aspx)
is data controller under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.Use of Portfolio by nurses in the Defence Medical Services
(https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence/about/personal-information-charter)
is under the authority of the Ministry of Defence