Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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A D M I N I S T R A T I O N Throughout the hospital no other group has worked more energetically, nor forged ahead more progressively than the Administration itself. In the face of war-time shortages and complications, our Administration has combined its forces and concentrated its efforts to bring about literally the greatest good for the greatest number. One night supervisor, as well as a medical supervisor and an assistant in charge of volunteers have recently been added to the staff. The improvement of personnel practices has been paramount among the Administration ' s objectives. In November, 1944 the cafeteria was put on a new all-cash basis, thus offering graduates and students alike increased opportunities for choice in the cafeteria and graduates the choice of living in or living out. Of interest, too, is the new volunteer unit recently organized for the Central Supply Room. It is significant to note that despite the overwhelming shortages confronting it, the Administration strove con- sistently to uphold efficient standards. The past year saw the closing down for only one month of two more wards, one in the General Hospital, and one in the Baker. All in all, our Administration has maintained a broad view- point, and has handled with skill any number of time- consuming and thought-provoking problems. We brought to them our restless youth.” Page Eight

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Dedication To the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Nurses and Doctors of the 6th General Hospital, who so willingly answered the call of their country and whose steadfast devotion to their duties has carved an immemorable niche in our plans for victory and the future.

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Florence Nightingale once said that nursing is an art which requires an exclusive devotion. Such a devotion has been demonstrated by the Principal of our School of Nurs- ing, Miss Sally Johnson. Although a native of Connecticut, she has lived almost exclusively in Massachusetts since she entered our School of Nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1907. Previously she had taught in a grade school in Connecticut. Teaching positions with greater opportunities had no appeal for her, therefore she decided that school teaching was not her field. Fortunately for us a doctor cousin influenced her to enter the nursing profession. After graduation and a six months post-graduate course in psychiatric nursing at the McLean Hospital, she accepted a position at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford where she was Instructor in Practical Nursing. At the end of the school year she accepted a similar position at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and was later appointed Assistant Super- intendent of Nurses in that institution. In 1917, Miss Johnson became Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the School of Nursing at the Albany Hospital. War was soon declared and in 1918 she was given a leave of absence to become Director of the Unit of the Army School of Nursing at the Walter Reed Hospital. On October 1, 1920, Miss Johnson returned to the Massachusetts General Hospital in the position of Superin- tendent of Nurses and Principal of the School of Nursing. During these years Miss Johnson has been President of the Massachusetts League of Nursing Education, of the New England Division of the American Nurses Association, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Suffolk County Nurses Directory. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National League of Nursing Education, of the Board of Directors of the American Journal of Nurs- ing, and is now a member of the Board of Directors of the American Nurses Association. Miss Johnson has a great capacity for work and a sense of humor which often saves a trying situation. She also has a quality which is necessary for the successful admin- istration of a school of nursing, namely, an understanding of young women.