Ms Gwennap trained as a student nurse in Essex and went on to work as a healthcare assistant at West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance before working as a children’s nurse, where she met her husband in 1998.<\/p>\n
She said a friend filled out an application form for her to do the training.<\/p>\n
“My friend wanted to do her training and the first I knew about it was when I had a letter to say I had been accepted for an interview,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I think the most wonderful thing about it was working in an area where I actually knew a lot of the people I was looking after.<\/p>\n
“It seemed like a good thing to do because I was helping friends and people that I knew.<\/p>\n
“I loved every minute of it, it fitted me, and I enjoyed it so much.”<\/p>\n
Reflecting on her 50 years of service with the NHS, she said: “It’s just gone in the blink of an eye.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Gwennap trained as a student nurse in Essex and went on to work as a healthcare assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220272","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}