Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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mnths say, maybe six mnths, but rarely ever that because that ls a big
hole in the three years. And then obstetrics was the sq. Now I remmber
much about a nurse who wanted to have affiliations. She was in one of the
schools, good schools, in Chicago, but she wanted an affiliated course in
psychiatric nursing. Well, now that wasn't required. Yoq see, there was
no psychiatric nursing required of any institution.
hospitals, they were stuck because they had schools
they didn't have eno& clinical material of other
a rental patient who would haw well, B15ght Is
sort.
Q. The girl who wanted psychiatric training, could she . I i. .
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to have a little training in her own shcool." She wanted o go . . .
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Q. Everywhere else?
A. Well, then she'd have that and then she'd want somth g else. And they
told her--the director of nwsing said,'"Well, I just told er that she o@t
A. Yes, that wasn't on the propam that they had. Of come, they weren't
a psychiatric hospital. They had enough obstetrics and pematrics, but she
could always thlnk of somthlng else, tuberculosis, for mtance.
Q. She could've gone through that school and then gone on to duties in
other specialties. Is that what you man?
A. Yes. She could've taken a post graduate if she wantea to go off there
and take a job there. I man they'd hire her just as a grpduate registered
nurse. She wouldn't have to be then; nw they have to be 8 registered nurse
to get so many registered nwms either. I man there am not a lot of graduates
&ng loose without an RN. Even the aides, the pr$wtical nmes,
have a license, you know. (tape turned off) I want to ch k on what was
going on, on that revfsion of the nurse practice>act. 7
Q. Which year is this now? ! I
A. Ws was in 1919, just a little while before I was le-g the city to
go to Siberia. A group cam d m f'mm Chicago who were for srraller requfremnts
for entering a school of nursing. The nurses were trying to get--the
nurses, State Nurses Associatim, we're not allowed to cal$ it the State
Nurses Association now, it's just the Illinois Nursing As ciation.
can1 t get the word %taterr into any of the titles. It I s Ft the tef%ow
that youlre covering.
Q. This pup *om Chicago w-ed to reduce the requirem
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A. Yes, they wanted to reduce the requfpemnts. It was t be a new act.
We put it at the least that we could think we ' d get, and. t at was one year
of hl@ .school education. They wanted it the ei@th grade I know that I
was called off of the school nwsing WQ& previously. An I was asked to
say why I took postgraduate training. I did say it was be use basic
nursing course was two years. I entered it partly because it was here, but
partly because I could then go and get a yearls postgradu
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e training on
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