Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
prepared especially with her certificate of . . . Oh, shf;'s an administrative
doctor's helper, doctor's assistant, and she muzs t e whole office.
That s what she does.
Q. If someone was looking for a very specialized type or person, Wuld . . .
A. And they wanted that kind of job , we Idq know.
Q. Well, would he have to wrfte to forty-eiat states tP f'ind, I wan
would he have to write forty-ei&t different letters? ;
A. No, there's a person at the headquarters of the hr can Nurses'
Association that's funcbioning for the different states, who have them,
and those that don't have them, they are inspired to try hard to get them.
It's often a question of mey, see.
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Q. Well, could he write just to the national organizati and then they
would put him in touch with you if . . .
A. For a job in Illinois, yes. However, they wouldn,,t -see they are
more of a khd of a clewing house. They do if there is . Now if there
isn't anybody there, now, the nurse would how where he ord is, where
is her confidential record, now that's another thing we
compile their pmfessional record if they were a me&
even though they don't want a job. They want their
they do.
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Q. I was trying to get at if there was a very highly sp cialized, maybe
there were only five of these wornen in the country, this man then coUd
just write to the headquarters in New York and they woul know whether or
not you had a nurse of this pwticulaT training? Or how would they get the
information out without writing forty-eight different le ters?
A. Well, the question is often locality where the nurselPs that wants
the job. She my be just the person that fits that job ;8nd yet, the
employer my know more about her than we do, ha* comptled her pmfessional
history. He might know more about her personality and t
necessuLtly core out. But if they make .pod In all thei
don't have any worries about whether she's going to fit
But now when that person interviewed re for that
mentioned--if an employer, we 1, the alrplmes
and they mtedoneblond and bmtte, and
men-@, and so a graduate regi wse is all they
t
This registration passes too. Is thq person eliglble
evewy state because the requi by not be the
registered nwse Fn New I don't keep
eveh keep up the Illinois one, There ' s no point.
dropped it, that's what the nurses do, unless
they might want to work. It a requirement to
for many things. It is now registration has
in their state, where they t
registration in