{"id":279022,"date":"2025-11-23T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:08:07","slug":"calm-space-opens-for-truro-nursing-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279022\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm space opens for Truro nursing students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new sensory study room has opened to give healthcare students a quiet, supportive space while they train for their careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The room, based in the library at the Knowledge Spa, at the Truro School of Nursing, is equipped with items designed to help students focus and feel calm, including a weighted blanket, coloured lights, fidget toys and books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The idea came from Sinead Blowers, subject librarian at Cornwall Health Library, and Ally James, lecturer in adult nursing, who wanted to create a bookable space for students as well as anyone looking for a peaceful spot to study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms James said she wanted to ensure students were &#8220;fully supported throughout their journey with us&#8221; and it was&#8221;great to see the space finally in use&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new sensory study room has opened to give healthcare students a quiet, supportive space while they train&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279022","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\/279022","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=279022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}