Where did Mother Teresa work as a nun?

Answer 1

Mother Teresa had no formal training as a nurse.

Mother Teresa's lack of basic training in health care is demonstrated by the haphazard and ineffective care provided to patients. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta and observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, were making decisions about patient care, Dr. Fox observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. He noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking." These were situations for which Dr. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible. She was not only unable to provide supervision and training in health care to the nuns, but was even unwilling to buy books to help with the medical work although, according to Collete Livermore, a former nun in the order, there was sufficient money donated for the purpose.

Answer 2

Mother Teresa was not a trained nurse but she spent a few months in Patna to receive a basic medical training in the Holy Family Hospital and then ventured out into the slums.

Mother Teresa made it clear over and over that she was not running a hospital but a hospice for the dying. Not being a doctor herself nor, at the time, having a doctor on her staff, she could not obtain most prescription medications and had to use only what was available over the counter. In India strong pain killers were strictly controlled. Even registered medical facilities found them nearly impossible to obtain so you can imagine the difficulties Mother Teresa experienced, having no medical training nor any doctors on her staff. About the only medications she had available were acetaminophen or aspirin which could be obtained without a prescription. It was not until 2012 that India began to realize the importance of pain management and loosened the regulations somewhat. Today Mother Teresa's order has been able to recruit medical staff as well as found clinics that are able to obtain and dispense medicines that Mother Teresa did not have access to.

Answer 3

She worked primarily in India. By the way, Mother Teresa was not a nun, she was a sister. Nuns live in monasteries and generally do not leave the confines of the monastery.

Answer 4

Initially she went to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English, the language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children in India.