06/04/2025
Hi, I'm Jan Vigil, RN, MN
Associate Professor of Community Health Nursing
Interim Advisor, Admissions Officer, Portland Campus Clinical Placement Coordinator, Co-sponsor Nursing Honor Society
I’ve been part of the Walla Walla University School of Nursing on and off since 1991. After a six-year sojourn, I returned in Fall 2023 to finish out the last chapter of my nursing education career and it has been such a joy to be back.
I am glad to be working with students and fellow faculty again. I am most grateful to still have the energy to be the lead instructor of a senior level nursing course! I have a wonderful husband that enables me to do that!
It has been a special pleasure to again work in close proximity to my sister, Carol Healy, our office manager. We 'do' lunch a lot! It has been a great privilege to work with my esteemed colleagues in this School for the last 2 years. We work well together and have a real appreciation for each other.
Some favorite memories from over the years:
- Dressing up as Florence Nightingale for dedication ceremonies
- Teaching Fundamentals every summer for over 15 years
- Conducting mock interviews for the Issues & Trends course (which I taught a time or two)
- Supervising senior practicums every quarter all across Portland
- Teaching Acute Nursing of the Adult for 1.5 years (while the permanent instructor at the time was completing her master’s)
- Organizing the skills lab before Leasha did.
- Seeing the Assembly hall become a reality; knowing what a lot of work that was!
- Working with 3 different librarians, 3 deans, 3 dorm deans, several University Presidents as well as multiple faculty over the years.
- Watching the cherry blossoms come and go.
It will be hard to turn in my key on June 30, but in my heart, I know it is time to move to the next stage of life: grandmotherhood. Change is always part of living and there is always more to learn about life no matter what your age!
