{"id":389330,"date":"2026-04-20T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389330\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:16:14","slug":"jerseys-aspiring-nurses-asked-to-study-degrees-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389330\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey&#8217;s aspiring nurses asked to study degrees locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The degrees would be based at Jersey General Hospital and include a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, project leaders said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2013, 117 student nurses have begun their training with Health and Care Jersey, with 60 undergraduate learners currently studying, HCJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It had also supported 11 student midwives and 13 operating department practice students, with 10 currently qualified and working in clinical practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Studying here enables students to gain a high\u2011quality education while continuing to live at home, making a career in healthcare more accessible than ever,&#8221; said Hazel McWhinnie, dean of nursing, midwifery, at AHP Education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are proud to encourage islanders to consider a career in healthcare through our undergraduate nursing and midwifery programmes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that students who successfully completed their studies were &#8220;guaranteed a role with Health Care and Jersey&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The degrees would be based at Jersey General Hospital and include a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}