The use of reflective practice on critical incidents, in a neonatal setting, to enhance nursing practice

Portfolio development and the use of reflection as a tool to promote the development of critical thinking have become essential requirements in current nursing education. In this article the writer has reflected on two critical incidents which occurred in a neonatal unit. The writer demonstrates how reflection has enabled her to access, understand and learn, through a lived experience, and how this helped to enhance the writer's area of practice.