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Evaluation of the use of portfolios in paramedic practice: part 1

04 April 2011
Features
02 April 2011
Volume 3 · Issue 5

Abstract

2009 saw the first audit of paramedic portfolios by the Health Professions Council (HPC) and later this year, the second national audit will take place. In the first of a two-part evaluation of the use of portfolios in paramedic practice, the history of professional portfolios is chartered including their current position within the paramedic profession. A number of contemporary issues with portfolios are identified, including format and how they relate to a paramedic's continuing professional development. The impact of the Knowledge and Skills Framework on portfolio use is also discussed.

Portfolios have been used to showcase abilities in education, architecture, photography and the arts for many years but only began to be used in nursing schools in the early 1980s as a means to document educational attainment (Budnick and Beaver, 1984). Portfolio use in the paramedic profession, however, has a more recent history. Even as an emergency service, the ambulance service is pre-dated by the fire service and police by many years and only in 1974 did the ambulance service move from county council control into the NHS (Craggs and Blaber, 2008).

This does not diminish the need for an evaluation of the use of portfolios in paramedic practice but it does help to qualify why this particular evaluation paper places such a reliance on literature from the nursing profession. Capsey (2010) supports this position in identifying that paramedic practice has evolved from a near standing start and so there is a need for the allied health professions to guide and develop practice (Capsey, 2010). This idea is developed further by Campeau (2009) who stresses the importance of learning from other professions, but within a framework of paramedic practice that is quite unique from other health care professionals (Campeau, 2009).

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