Caring education: between compromise and the effective use of professional portfolios. Case study of on-site mentors at the Institute of Nurse Education
Since the 2009 reforms in nurse education, the professional portfolio has been used to document the skills acquired by cooperative education students (Scallon, 2007; Tardif, 2006) and ethical care procedures in situation (Jonnaert, 2011). This exploratory study examined the compromises (Nachi, 2011) likely to arise between institutional expectations and usages of the portfolio by on-site mentors from a perspective of “caregiving as trained work.” In this study, the results suggest recommendations for mentor training, portfolio design and use.