High frequency ventilation: A reflective case study

Reflection is widely used in nurse education for both the learner to demonstrate learning from one's nursing actions and for the educator to assess how such learning has been applied to clinical practice. There is much to be learnt from any clinical situation but perhaps the most effective way to extract issues from practice is to reflect on case examples. This paper outlines a reflective care study of a specific baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) illustrating how focusing on only one case within a short time frame can capture issues for discussion and analysis. The focus of this paper is on the learning points relating to a baby receiving HFOV specifically, during one nursing shift.