Lizelle Potgieter completed bachelor from the University of Pretoria in 1991, a Diploma in Medical Surgical Nursing Science from Netcare Education, vffiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand, in 2006 and completing her Diploma in Nursing Education from The University of Johannesburg in 2008. She taught post basic nursing students from 2008 Medical and Surgical Nursing Science and completed her MSc Nursing in 2016 from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing. She was awarded by the Golden Key International Honour Society for her study. She served on the Nursing Education Association Committee before leaving South Africa. She currently works in Morocco as the Academic Lead of Fatima College of Health Sciences in Rabat, teaching a Bridging programme to nurses who have a diploma in nursing that will culminate into bachelors in Nursing.

Clinical portfolios guide clinical learning experiences and assess the student’s attainment of programme outcomes. The researcher experienced that neither the student nor the educator utilised the clinical portfolio effectively in the development and transformation of the intensive care nursing student at the private nursing education institution. The purpose of the study was to improve the structure and enhance the use of clinical portfolios as a learning approach in intensive care nursing education.