Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. You were already on the board at this time? You were appointed $0 the
board in 1914?
A. I' can't tell you.
Q. That's when you were secretary of the State Board of Wse Examiners?
A. I established the office, you see, then. But the StaF Board of Nurse
ExmLners had been established. I got iqy certification I was--7lst
nurse regLstered. So,:-well I'm lost now.
Q. You were going to tell me &out the lawyer who was wilting the law.
b t s his nanr;?
A. Well, I don't remnber, but he cam flmm a little tw, Morris. Is
there a town m d Pbrris, Illinois, over by-well anyhow, I said, "Your
mm is wrong for this organization you're promoting. It $odd have the word
education in it because the boards are required not to acwpt candidates for
registratim unless they c m fMm an accredited school. @d we, the Board
of Nurse Examiners, we establish a list of accredited schcmls. We make our
standaylds and we go and visit them. I' I -inspected schoolS of nursing in
Illinois, that was one part of job, and then working ta form the examinations
and being one to correct som of the papers. Each rpf the five] mm
ber of the board was responsible for subjects that were wiped to them for
writing the questions and grading those questims for which they were msponsible.
Examhations lasted one *ole day. Then they lasteq two days. They
were held in Chicago and Springfield.
Q. The papers that you were correcting were the nurses emnation papers
is that correct?
A. Yes, that ' s ri&t, that ' s fiat.
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9. Md he get his legislation passed to combine registratiiion and education?
You were telling me about the lawyer that had come to you.
A. Well, he cam just while tk law was in the process of' being passed and
corrected, and that's when I had a chance to say it needed education in
there--in the title of the new departwnt of registration that they were establishing.
And he did give me credit publicly for that. I don't think
many people know that. &t wasn't it good that I got that, in there? (lawter)
Q. It certainly was. Good for you. i
A. Then we still had a two year course requiremnt, en I was school
nurse, you see-it was after I was school nurse that in this [board]
and I haven't . . .
Q. That's all right. WelPl ga back to your tire as a schpol nurse.
A. Letts see, what was I gohgto say? I1mnot so good today.
Q. I think you're peat. This was the second state bo of nurse3 exams?
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