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Portrait of PREEJA SAM

Honor Society® member

PREEJA SAM

registered nurse at Advent Health Orlando

  • family nurse practitioner
  • Class of 2022
  • Winter Garden, FL

Member since January 2022

About

I was born and bought up in India, completed my schooling, and BSc Nursing in India with a GPA of 3.8 from Christian College of Nursing of Dr. M.G.R Medical University, Chennai in the year 2000. Currently, I am in Masters in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner program at Advent Health University at Orlando, Florida. I also work at Advent Health Hospital Orlando Main campus as an RN at Surgical Services, pre, and phase 2 post-op, doing perianeasthesia nursing services. I am fortunate to do all my education in Christian faith-based schools, which helped me to grow in compassion for others and became a service-minded person and a compassionate Registered Nurse. I was also fortunate to work as an RN in four different countries, India, Kuwait, Canada, and the USA. In India I worked as a nursing tutor, in Kuwait I worked as an RN at the Kuwait Ministry of health, in Canada, I worked as an RN at the largest trauma center Sunnybrook Health sciences, and at Markham Stouffville Hospital, Toronto., and also functioned as a facilitator for workshops at CARE center for Internationally Educated Nurses, Toronto. Currently I a full-time RN, full-time MSN FNP student, full-time mother of three teenagers, and a full-time housewife. God enabled me to manage everything together and be a role model to my kids and co-workers.

Education

  • Dr MGR Medical University

    bachelor of science in nursing

    1996 – 2000

Honors and awards

  • Expert Nurse Award from CARE for Internationally educated nurses

    CARE center at TORONTO awarded expert nurse award for volunteering to do observational job shadowing for new internationally educated RN's coming to get Licensed in Canada as an RN

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist.

    Kuwait Ministry of Health honored with clinical nurse specialist title for maintaining three consecutive years excellent performance evaluation at work.

  • Poster Presenter for Canadian Association of Ambulatory Care Conference. 9 CAACC).

    Presented a poster at CAACC

Goals and interests

Career goal

Family Nurse Practitioner

Graduate school interests

Primary care, women's health, Adult surgical care.

Outside the classroom

Reading, cooking, traveling, gardening.

Experience

  • registered nurse

    Advent Health Orlando

    Mar 2019 – Dec 2021

  • registered nurse

    Markham Stouffville Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

    Mar 2015 – Feb 2019

  • registered nurse

    Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada

    Jan 2015 – Feb 2019

  • registered nurse

    Kuwait Ministry of Health, Kuwait.

    Mar 2004 – Aug 2013

  • registered nurse

    Vijaya hospital and school of nursing, Kottarakara, Kerala , India.

    Jun 2001 – Sep 2003

Volunteering

  • Mentor and job shadow guide for Internationally educated Nurses Observational Job shadowing by CARE Center for IEN at Sunnybrook

    CARE Center for IEN

    Aug 2016 – Mar 2019

Languages

  • Malayalam Advanced
  • English (US) Fluent
  • Arabic Beginner
  • Tamil Beginner
  • Hindi Beginner

Additional information