As a community nurse working for the NHS UK and a blogger I am acutely aware of the need to tread carefully the fine line... I've had some shall we say negative experiences that everyone may encounter in their professional career. Perhaps that is the key see the 'bad' times in context. I blogged about this last year after reading an item in the HSJ:

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2008/09/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-that-is-question.html

Thanks for the leads / observations here - a topic to revisit without doubt.

Peter Jones

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