Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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step right away from when you first graduate from a scho 1 of nursing
to be a supervisor. So we tell them in each case what t $ ey would have
to be experienced In, this or that, you see, and then itidoesn't need
to be that they have to have a11 Ends of experience, no4 I was very
strong on pre non nurse work.
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A. Pre non nurse work where a candidate had been a teaclper. She could
quickly prepare-and then became a nurse-she might qua1 f'y for, if she
had had experience in nws* of any kind. For instance if she worked
as a general duty nurse in the hospital here, there or s replace else,
she might be ready for head nursing work or mybe in a s 1 institution,
she could be a supervisor, mybe a night supervisor even (chuckle) I
was thinking about the cat. Well, anyhow, to have her cqlne back when
organization.
I had a codttee mde up of wonen who were down to
time, had good experience, good preparation, had
these higher fields of service and then, well,
Well, one thing we could liken it to, we made
and the cloth doesn't wear out very fast
Well, that is by and large what we did.
Then there is a question of advertising that we had to t a List ready
for the American Journal of Nursing and we could use list if we
wanted to, but of open jobs, mybe som that were very wd to fill and
it would be a little while before, but in general there qould be a nwnber
of jobs that it would be hard to find just the person
qualifications that were in it and they mi&t like it,
one thing and they would tm it down, you see. So, it
interesting. I stayed and wo~ked ni&ts because rq~ daysiwere taken up
in dictating. I dictated evexy personal interview on
the blue sheet. The blue sheet
their stand up record and that desi-ted it as
It would give the attitude of the pergon, the
and well, mything that she
Now we didnlt require a
Them never was any
was say- that
Dictating required a lot. Nm we did! go out, and I was
was the vocational person in office, that is our
I placed her fn her job when in Nurse Placement
director of the whole state association, I an
Nuraesf Association. It was then so I'm really
We went to
the natlona
Placement Service,
the five st