This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Profiles and Portfolios provides a complete guide to designing and maintaining a profile or portfolio. The text uses a practical step-by-step approach, has been expanded to cover a wide range of topics related to keeping a personal portfolio in a health as well as a social care context, and teaches the skills necessary for reflective practice.

Introduction
Profiles and Portfolios in Healthcare
Profiles and Portfolios in Social Care
Getting to Grips with the Terminology
Some Common Themes and Questions Shared
Getting Started: Creating Your Personal Profile
Profiles and Reflective Practice
Making Your Learning Count
Helping Others to Develop a Profile: The Skills of Facilitation
Further Resources and Reading List

CATHY HULL co-authored the first edition. For seven years she was Lecturer in Experiential Learning at Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Macmillan Open Learning [now Emap Healthcare], she commissioned and published The Profile Pack which continues to be widely used by nurses and midwives. She currently works part-time at the University of Kent.

LIZ REDFERN co-authored the first edition. She has a background in nursing and nursing education and worked at the English National Board when they introduced the concept of profiling. She is currently Director of Nursing for Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust.

ANN SHUTTLEWORTH has been Editor of Professional Nurse and Managing Editor of a stable of journals serving a range of healthcare professionals. She has worked on a range of professional and consumer publications, and edited reports of national bodies including the English National board for nursing and Midwifery, and the Department of Health, before becoming Editor of Emap Healthcare Open Learning.