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# Dean Jenny Lucy’s Nursing Journey of Service and Compassion

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Jenny Lucy, DNP, MSN-Ed, PMHNP-BC, APRN, CNE, Dean of Nursing at Arizona College
of Nursing’s Fort Lauderdale campus, has dedicated her life to nursing,
education, and service. Originally from London, she was inspired to become a
nurse in the 1990s through a government program designed to address a shortage
of healthcare professionals. 

This program, which paid for her education, allowed her to attend King’s College
London, where she received fantastic training.

![Nursing School Classes Near Me](https://arizonacollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Nursing-School-Classes-Near-Me.webp?w=1024)

“I’ve always loved being with people, and I love helping people, so it was a
natural thing for me to become a nurse,” she says.

After getting married, she left England and moved to the US, where she followed
her husband’s work, moving every 4 years. This constantly changing lifestyle led
her to gain a wide range of experience. “Then I found my passion, which was
mental health nursing,” she explains. 

Her dedication to mental health is so well known on campus that she even
received an award from a Semester 9 cohort: “Most likely to use breathing
techniques to save the world.” 

## 󠀁**A Natural Transition to Education **󠁿 󠀁** **󠁿 

For Dean Lucy, moving from the nursing world to one of education was natural.
She believes that nurses have a built-in ability to teach, and because of that,
her transition was smooth.  

She began her teaching career 15 years ago at a community college in Virginia,
where she took students to clinicals. This passion for teaching led her to other
roles, including developing and teaching a CNA program at a high school in
inner-city Chicago and a medical assistant program in Atlanta. 

She now serves as the Dean of the Fort Lauderdale campus, where she is a beloved
mentor and supportive leader. Even with her administrative duties, she still
finds time to teach, covering faculty when needed and always being available to
provide students with new perspectives on course concepts. 

“I think that my personal culture matches very well with the, with the culture
of the college,” she says. “I’m very student-centered, so everything is about
the students and making sure they get what they need.” 

## 󠀁**Enhancing the AZCN Student Journey**󠁿 

At our Fort Lauderdale campus, Dean Lucy is known for her hands-on approach and
her commitment to making the student experience as seamless as possible.  

“This campus is so awesome. Everybody wants to help everybody else and do better
for the students,” she shares. “That’s my big focus: What can I do to make the
journey better for the students?” 

She provides a great example of this dedication. Recognizing that many students 
were travelling long ways from their homes to get to their clinical placements,
she helped initiate a new system to assign placements based on students’ zip
codes. “Now we can do this,” she says. “We can at least get students [at a
clinical site] an hour from where they live.”

![Nursing Classes Near Me](https://arizonacollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Nursing-Classes-Near-Me.webp?w=1024)

In addition, she has also started several clubs at the College for students,
including the Student Nurses’ Association (SNA). Some of her clubs organize
volunteer activities at events like the Type 1 diabetes and Alzheimer’s walk, as
well as drives for a local homeless shelter. For Dean Lucy, community service is
not just an extracurricular activity, but a core component of being a nurse. 

“Nursing school has to have a big community component,” she explains. “You need
to give your time…you instill it in the students when they come to nursing
school and then they’ll do it for the rest of their careers.” 

## 󠀁**Dean Lucy’s Commitment to Nursing Students**󠁿 

Dean Lucy’s commitment to her students is perhaps best illustrated by a story
she shares about a group of students who were seriously struggling in a
particular semester. She took it among herself to take action, initiating extra
help sessions and bringing in professors with diverse teaching styles. 

“Something stuck,” she recalls. “And by the end of the semester, there was
nobody failing… everybody caught the ball. They have graduated.” 

This experience reinforced her belief that every student deserves a chance to
succeed. 

Dean Lucy’s journey from a student in London to a leader in Fort Lauderdale is a
powerful testament to the impact one compassionate person can have on the lives
of others. Her passion for nursing and her constant support for her students is 
at the heart of everything she does at Arizona College of Nursing.