{"id":34192,"date":"2026-05-11T10:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34192"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:11:52","slug":"nursing-in-sa-safe-despite-ai-growth","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nursing-in-sa-safe-despite-ai-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nursing\u00a0\u00a0in SA\u00a0safe despite AI growth&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chief Executive Officer at South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Life Healthcare, Peter Wartoon-Hood, says nursing jobs will survive Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">He was speaking at a panel discussion ahead of International Nurses Day, which is marked on May 12 annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Life Healthcare is one of the largest hospital groups in SA, hosted a media panel discussion under the theme: &#8220;The Power Behind Care, focused on the evolving role of nurses and the sustainability of healthcare delivery in SA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Like most African states, the Southern African nation is facing not only a nursing shortage, but a growing gap between the care that is delivered and how that care is understood by patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The role of nurses can never be overstated as they sit at the centre of this divide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They are not only responsible for delivering care, but for translating, interpreting and humanising it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">With the advent of technology some jobs might fade as they are replaced by a robot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wartoon-Hood says a robot won&#8217;t be able to perform a human&#8217;s job and therefore the profession is safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20591,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-34192","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"International Nurses Day","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34193,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34192\/revisions\/34193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}