Michele Lewis Johnson, M.A., R.N.
Faculty
RN Program
Specialization: Behavioral
Health/Med Surg.
Office: GMC campus, 4th floor
Phone: 215-787-2323 Ext. 424
Email:
mjohnson@sjhson.org
Michele Lewis Johnson grew up and received her public education in the Philadelphia
school system. After graduation from West Philadelphia High School in 1964, she attended
Freedmen's Hospital School of Nursing, at Howard University, in Washington, DC. and graduated in1968.
After graduation she worked in various areas of nursing, from operating
room, general surgery, renal Dialysis, and occupational health for the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company. During these years she traveled and
worked in many different areas of the country and experienced different
cultures and approaches to health care. It was these experiences
that awakened her need to grow and continue her nursing education.
She returned to Philadelphia
in 1984 and became a staff nurse at Medical College of PA – EPPI,
working in Psychiatry, both Adult and Child-Adolescence, and Chemical
Dependency, which had become her expertise area of nursing. She went on
to pursue a Bachelors in Nursing and received her BSN from Temple
University
in 1990. She then decided to pursue an advanced degree and attended
Teachers College, Columbia
University
and graduated with a Master of Arts, Nurse in the Executive Role in
1994. She has held several management positions and delved into
education by taking an adjunct faculty position at Widener
University
in 1999. Her past experience in the area of chemical dependency helped
her greatly to develop a graduate education course at the request of the
department. This, she found to be very rewarding and since that time has
taken every opportunity to be an educator. She started working with
Urban Solutions in 2006 on a special project interacting with school age
children in the Philadelphia
public school system teaching Health education. Her plan had always been
to give something back to her profession, which she loves dearly. It was
not until March of this year 2008 that the opportunity came and she was
offered a position as faculty at St, Joseph’s Hospital School of
Nursing. She is presently a full time instructor, lecturing on her area of
specialty, behavioral health and medical surgical nursing.
