University of San Francisco Orange County Campus

🚨VIP alert!🚨

A huge thank you to Provost Eileen Fung and Vice Provost Rebecca Hong, who spent the day at the OC Campus today! Our students, faculty, and staff truly appreciate the time you took to meet with everyone, and even getting your flu vaccine administered by our ME-MSN students! 🧑‍⚕️💉

We are so grateful for your presence and support of our campus. 💚💛 We can’t wait to have you back soon!

Today we held the White Coat Ceremony for OC18, the newest cohort of students in our ME-MSN program. This ceremony marks nursing students’ transition into clinical practice and emphasizes their commitment to patient care and the nursing profession.

We hope you remember your “why” as you continue your journey into nursing. And we are so proud to be a part of it!

Happy National Nurses Week! 🎉🎉

This week we celebrate the invaluable contributions of nurses worldwide. We honor all the incredible nurses who embody the spirit of compassion and care in every health care setting.

Thank you for all that you do! The world is a better place because of you! 💚💛

Happy Earth Day, Dons! 🌎🎉

Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future.

This year’s theme shines a light on a serious environmental issue—plastics. Plastic pollution is one of the most important environmental problems that we face today. It impacts the environment and our health and wellbeing.

There are three simple acts that make an endless impact:

✍🏽Sign the Global Plastics Treaty
👗Reject fast fashion
🤝Join the Great Gloval Cleanup

You can learn more by checking out earthday.org.

A huge thank you to Dr. Sabrina Kwist, USF Associate Vice Provost for Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) who visited our campus last week.

Dr. Kwist spoke to our students, faculty, staff, and partners on empowering ourselves to create and be the change that we want to see to bring health equity to our communities and beyond.

We can’t wait for your next visit!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our two Day of the Dons events last week! We hope everyone enjoyed the tacos, treats, games and giveaways.

On Tuesday, we held the White Coat Ceremony for Cohort 17 of our Master’s Entry MSN program at the USF Orange County Campus. Faculty, staff, family, and friends celebrated our newest group of nursing students as they start their clinical rotations.

The ceremony included the Donning of the White Coat, Blessing of the Hands, and the Nightingale Pledge—marking our students commitment to providing high-quality, compassionate, collaborative, and humanistic patient care.

Good luck on this next chapter of your journey into nursing!

🎉Congratulations OC12 and MPH2 Students!

Last Friday, the OC Campus honored our 12th nursing (ME-MSN) cohort and 2nd public health (MPH) cohort on the completion of their programs with an MSN pinning ceremony and MPH stole presentation.

The event brought together family, friends, guests, and USF faculty/staff as we celebrated their accomplishments.

We are honored to be a part of your lives the past two years and cannot wait to see what you accomplish. Go Dons!

Friday, August 4th is Health Professions Day where our Masters in Public Health students completed their final Capstone Presentations and were also recognized for their academic excellence.

Antonio and Honorine received both the Social Justice Award and the Spirit of Public Health Award. Antonio was additionally recognized in being part of the Delta OMega Honorary Society in Public Health.

Congratulations to both Antonio Rodriguez and Honorine Uwimana on your presentations and well-deserved awards!

Easter activities on campus 🐣

Last week, our campus held a week-long Easter egg hunt for our students, with prizes ranging from candy and magnets 🍬🍫to USF swag. 🟢🟡🧢☕️👚

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

👀Look out for our next campus event coming up in May! 🎨🧠🐶💆🏻

In honor of 🌎 World Health Day, we want to feature one of our many international students at the OC Campus—Honorine Uwimana, MPH ‘23.

Honorine hopes to utilize the many skills that she’s learning in our program to improve the global health equity condition. She says, “I represent many of the minorities of at-risk populations discussed
in most of my public health coursework and reports: women, immigrants, Black, from a region of the world classified as low-income. It would be a broken oath not to elevate my voice…to advocate for all.”

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We commend you, Honorine, in your commitment to health equity! Thank you for the research and work that you do in public health!