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Soumen Biswas

Toronto

Summary

Dedicated registered nurse with over 2 years of diverse clinical experience across acute care, primary care, medical-surgical, and mental health settings. Demonstrated strength in primary care, health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of diseases across all age groups as a physician in multiple countries over 20 years.
Committed to advancing clinical expertise as a Nurse Practitioner and working autonomously to provide essential healthcare services within professional, ethical, clinical, and legal standards.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit

Scarborough Health Network
Scarborough
01.2024 - Current
  • Provided direct care for terminally ill individuals across all age groups in different acute emergencies.
  • Interprofessional collaboration as a care team member
  • Empowered patients with autonomy, advocacy and health education.
  • Participated in quality improvement initiatives in the intensive care unit.

Registered Nurse

Ina Grafton Gage Home
Scarborough
12.2023 - Current
  • Resident assessment and monitoring
  • Care planning, documentation, medication administration
  • Staff supervision
  • Family-resident communication

Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit

Scarborough Health Network
Scarborough
10.2023 - 12.2023
  • Patient assessments and monitoring.
  • Comprehensive pre-and post-operative care for major surgical patients.
  • Care planning, patient education, and chronic disease nursing management.
  • Interprofessional collaboration and communication.

Orthopedic Surgeon

Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia
Unaizah
09.2003 - 06.2016
  • Made accurate surgical decisions based on in-depth reviews of medical histories, current assessments, physical conditions, and contraindications.
  • Read laboratory tests and diagnostic images accurately to interpret findings.
  • Diagnosed and treated musculoskeletal disorders in adult and pediatric patients.
  • Treated orthopedic conditions operatively and non-operatively, based on diagnoses and patient presentations.

General Practitioner

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation
Khulna
05.2000 - 08.2003
  • Health monitoring of two large jute mill workers, comprising about a thousand workers, and their families.
  • Health Screening, health education, multidisciplinary collaboration.
  • Provide emergency care, and prescribe medications.
  • Immunization

Project Coordinator

Save The Children (UK)
Khulna
01.1999 - 05.2000
  • Formed a school health brigade and disseminated health messages among the students and villagers for health promotion and disease prevention.
  • Developed a school health curriculum for project schools, consisting of seven schools with over 2,000 students.

Education

Master of Nursing (MN) - Nursing

Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto, ON
07-2025

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) - Nursing

Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto, ON
05-2023

Bachelor of Medicine And Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) - Medicine And Surgery

Chittagong Medical College And Hospital
Chittagong, Bangladesh
01-1996

Skills

  • Patient assessment
  • Medication administration
  • Care planning
  • Health education
  • Emergency response
  • Direct nursing care
  • Treatment planning
  • Wound care
  • IV management
  • Critical thinking
  • Advanced cardiovascular life support

Certification

Nursing Licensure

  • College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) License # 23728548 (Active, Good Standing)

Medical Licensure

  • Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCHS), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC), Bangladesh

Certifications

  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Heart & Stroke Foundation, valid through 2026
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Heart & Stroke Foundation, valid through 2027
  • CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention)
  • GPA (Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA) in Dementia Care: Supporting Persons with Responsive Behaviors)
  • Critical Care Nursing Advanced (Level 3 ICU)

Languages

English
Full Professional
Bengali
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Native/ Bilingual
Arabic
Professional
Urdu
Professional

Affiliations

Professional Development

  • "Rooted in Care, growing Through Community” Abstract presenter, Master of Nursing symposium, TMU 2025
  • "Taylor Massey Neighborhood Care Working Sessions”, Part 1 and Part 2, 2025

Timeline

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit

Scarborough Health Network
01.2024 - Current

Registered Nurse

Ina Grafton Gage Home
12.2023 - Current

Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit

Scarborough Health Network
10.2023 - 12.2023

Orthopedic Surgeon

Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia
09.2003 - 06.2016

General Practitioner

Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation
05.2000 - 08.2003

Project Coordinator

Save The Children (UK)
01.1999 - 05.2000

Master of Nursing (MN) - Nursing

Toronto Metropolitan University

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) - Nursing

Toronto Metropolitan University

Bachelor of Medicine And Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) - Medicine And Surgery

Chittagong Medical College And Hospital
Soumen Biswas