{"id":595881,"date":"2026-05-21T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595881\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:01:18","slug":"swapping-teaching-for-nursing-has-been-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595881\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Swapping teaching for nursing has been fantastic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Course leader Marjorie Dalton said the course encouraged &#8220;people who wouldn&#8217;t normally have an opportunity to do the traditional route to nursing, through the universities&#8221; to get into healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been helped by the use of the &#8220;high fidelity mannequins&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They can be programmed to &#8220;have breathing difficulties, heart conditions, cardiac arrests&#8221;, she said, which allows students to practise treating patients, or escalating the situation to a registered nurse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taibar described the mannequins, which cost up to \u00a335,000 each, as &#8220;a bit freaky&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They do talk to you&#8230; you can take bloods from them, they have a heartbeats, you can check their sats [blood saturation levels], their observations,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Course leader Marjorie Dalton said the course encouraged &#8220;people who wouldn&#8217;t normally have an opportunity to do the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595881","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=595881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}