Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
Q. Would hospital adtnhistrators, for instance, come tojyou when they
were loo^ for a nurse? 1
A. Well, especially yes, if it was a service of a kind
executive ability in a nurse who was the director of nur
institution or organization, and she would co~, or not
come, write and say what the job was. Of course, what I
about some fields of work, I learned very quickly by ana
these different jobs called for. So the specialties now
psychiatric nursing, never had any psychiatric nursing k
good to get her experience on if she could be accepted f
of job in psychiatric work, she would learn. Maybe she
in their classroom work off and on. So if they were esg
for nurses. Well, we had to judge if they had the requi
In their professional training, but in their individual
so foY.th. Now, far be it f'mm me to judge a person's p~
pletely just by seeing her and talking with her, but whe
come in, well, you match them up and so you my have thl
your mind about her. But when they say, "She never did
there-always would be a '+Why?" I didn't ask it, l!But wh)
the director's fault. Of course, a director of a school
also a very good instructor cm do vocational advising t
Maybe that director has been to Colunibia UnZversity or b
University and had advanced work, university work that n
Again, if they want to do hospital admbistration, so IE
hospital acbrdnistration jobs but some nurses W e very g
of hospitals, not the nursing staff, to have a nursing c
school and for service.
,hat required
,ing in that
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hadnl t known
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might be
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r her first kind
rould have to be
cially hard up
,emnts, not only
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of nursing and
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END OF SIDE ONE
Q. Would the job opportunities that you had be limited
Illinois?
;o the statie of
A. No, no. Thatls a good question. It would likely belthat if they
have their state vocational. service going, that is the
charge, I man the one that was expected of the nurses
the state to be looking for if they havenlt, but they
codd get a local. Now, take private duty for example.
Q. Frlvate duty?
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A. No, I'm just going back t
f
that.' We don't handle the placement
services. But we hand1 oh, solmany things that som o w
-lane.
to
it. Well, fa& a nurse that an be d. stemess on the
Now
that my be just what she was, lookhg for but she hadnlb thought about
it, but you can mention it, We got many requests for nwsas for stewardesses
and offlce nmes, they are
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one, you how. They arenl; under a nwse7s
sup$rvlslon but, they work fo the doctor. Now ny niece Is one of them.
She9s not a nurse but she wo with two doctors now down in Florida. She's
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