Joy Engracia
2010 Graduate Scholarship Recipient
Loma Linda University | School of Nursing
Joy Tuesday R. Engracia was born in Ormoc City, Philippines on October 20, 1964. She holds several educational degrees in the Philippines. These include: Bachelor’s degree in Medical Technology from Velez College in 1984; Doctorate of Medicine from Cebu Institute of Medicine in 1990 and Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Adventist University of the Philippines in 2003.
Together with her husband and three kids, she immigrated to this country in 2004 with the aspiration of providing a better future for the family. She and her family reside in Redlands. For almost six years now, she has been working at a Medical Unit in Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), as a staff RN for the first two years, as a relief Team Leader for the next two years and as a full time Charge RN for almost two years now. She has been involved in a major undertaking of LLUMC by being a member of the hospital’s Innovating Excellence Team. In the coming months she will join other selected Charge RN’s in a hospital-wide project called Team STEPPS, developed by the Department of Defense in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It is an evidence-based teamwork system to improve communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals to optimize patient outcomes.
Believing that she will be able to make a difference in the lives of patients in the primary care setting, she decided to advance her nursing career. Currently she is a senior student of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Loma Linda University. She has recently been inducted as a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
