Nursing- PATCHWORK PORTFOLIO

Patch 1

Identification and rationale
Learning outcome 1
500 words

Patch 1 is kind of like an introduction (although you will do a very brief introduction to the whole portfolio- see general questions summary). It introduces your idea and gives a summary of main points, you will expand on parts of this in patches 3 and 4. Patches 1-4 are only 500 words remember so you’ll need to be concise (LO4 and level 6 rubric).
Identify your project idea – What you are changing/ tweaking/ innovating/ enhancing/ improving/ introducing/ bringing from one area to another?
What is the rationale for your idea? – Give a summary of main points, what are the key reasons? (You will explore the reasons in more depth in patch 3).
Questions to think about: Is it to enhance quality and/ or safety of care, improve outcomes or reduce risk? Is it for staff, patient, carer, family, organisational and/ or financial benefit? Is there a need for your idea? Is there evidence that your idea could work in practice?
You don’t have to use the project initiation document (PID), it’s an example. Not all parts will be appropriate to your idea so you don’t need to include them, if using this you should include references in it just like in an essay or PowerPoint. It’s good to show critique and use references where you can to show level 6 study.

Patch 2

SWOT analysis
Learning outcome 1
500 words

Patch 2 is to do a SWOT in a table or powerpoint etc.
There are two ways you can do it-
Do a brief bullet point SWOT and a discussion (text/ essay/ narrative) – the SWOT table wouldn’t count in your words the discussion would
Do a detailed SWOT with references in it – this would be the word count equivalent as you’d expand on the points (you wouldn’t do a discussion as well)

You think about the usefulness of a SWOT and add some critique in to show level 6.
You could do a SWOT and another similar model and compare them, strengths, weaknesses, differences etc. of each, say which you think is better, be mindful though that it’s only equivalent 500 words so it will be brief if you did do this. As you need to explore the points in your SWOT about your idea.
Alternatives to SWOT are written about in business more so than health so may not be specifically written about in health journal articles etc. SCOC is just one example, there are others, but you don’t have to use them, you can just do a SWOT.
It’s good to show critique and use references where you can. Remember that patch 2 (SWOT) is only 500 words so you may not be able to be very critical in this patch but you will particularly in patch 5 for example, and others for showing level 6 study. You’ll put in your own opinions in the SWOT, essentially the whole SWOT is your opinions, where you can support them with references.
Please see SWOT presentation in session 4.

Examples of other SWOT frameworks
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/alternatives-swot-analysis-64967.html

This paper has a number of swot analysis within it as examples
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845115/pdf/IJCBNM-6-111.pdf

This paper uses a swot analysis to gather evidence for research
https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.12968/jcyn.2007.1.2.23749