Mission, Vision & Values
The mission of the School of Nursing and Health Professions is to improve the health of all populations through equitable and compassionate service, value-driven research, and innovative nursing and health professions education, preparing learners to use their hearts, minds, and souls to change the health of the world.
Eileen K. Fry-Bowers
Dean, School of Nursing and Health Professions
We envision a healthcare landscape that exemplifies courage and community, in which diversity is not just acknowledged but celebrated, and every person is treated with dignity and has access to care that allows them to lead flourishing lives.”
Eileen K. Fry-Bowers
Dean, School of Nursing and Health Professions
Live the USF Mission
Our students and faculty use their hearts, minds, and souls to improve the health of all populations. In their practice, in their research, and in their leadership they develop health and heal individuals, families, communities, and systems from the inside — worldwide.
Lean into Your Values
Kaylok Poon '26
Kaylok reflects on how the Jesuit value of cura personalis has shaped his nursing journey.
Create New Solutions
Thomas McMahon '24
Thomas developed a feature for his unit in Epic called Unit Map, a physical layout of the perioperative unit. Staff can quickly see a patient's room, operation status, and care team.
Serve Your Community
Professor Wyatt Lim Tepper
Professor Wyatt Lim-Tepper launched a nonprofit organization, A Curiae, to improve the criminal justice system by working at the intersection of the courts, public health, and community resources.
Be an Agent for Change
Shauna Olsen '19
USF inspired and equipped Shauna to join the Public Health Institute Prevention Policy Group to address chronic disease prevention and policy change.
Our Students Living the Mission
Students learn in San Francisco by serving individuals and communities during their clinical or field work rotations, engaging with local communities, and practicing compassionate care grounded in Jesuit values and equity.
Our Vision
The School of Nursing and Health Professions will eliminate health inequity and promote health justice locally and globally while preserving human dignity.
Our Values
In harmony with the core values of the University of San Francisco, the School of Nursing and Health Professions embraces:
- Courage to challenge existing paradigms to advance health equity and achieve health justice.
- Community that fosters collaborative action for positive change.
- Diversity, in all its forms, to ensure inclusivity and belonging.
- Excellence that instills responsibility, accountability, professionalism and a desire for personal growth and lifelong learning.
- Ethical practice that reflects humanistic ideals, and upholds the inherent dignity and worth of each individual.
- Scholarly inquiry that seeks the best evidence and promotes the highest levels of scientific integrity.
School of Nursing & Health Professions
San Francisco, CA 94117