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Nalini Sirala Jagadeesh

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I am Dr. S.J. Nalini, M.Sc.(N), PhD, working as Professor & Principal, Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Nursing, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU), also heads the Unit of Nursing Research. She completed her UG and PG degree in Nursing from College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai in 1992 and 2002 respectively. I received my PhD in 2011 from Sri Ramachandra University for her work on evaluating effectiveness of educative supportive nursing interventions on clinical indicators and behavioral adherence among women with cervical abnormalities. I have served in various positions in both clinical and teaching institutions starting from a clinical nurse to Professor and Principal in a nursing college, with 28 years of experience in the field of nursing. Have organized about 50 events, national and international conferences, workshops, seminars, and extracurricular programs for the nurses and nursing students. Presented 183 papers as resource person / invited speaker in national and international forums.
I and my team completed an international collaborative project on Cross national understanding of terminal suffering among hospitalized South Asians with GATE grant funding. Three papers submitted from this work won bursary travel grant awards from Palliative care congress, UK. I received best research paper awards for the papers in 10th International nurses conference at Sri Ramachandra University, National conference at SRM college of Nursing organized by Nursing PhD Society in November 2016 and 1st best research paper award at 23rd and 27th National Nursing Research Society of India Conference at MGM Institute of Health Sciences, Navi Mumbai in 2019 and National Institute of Nursing Education, PGIMER, Chandigarh in 2023 respectively. I have published 62 papers in journals and has worked as adaptation editor for two first south Asian Edition books namely (1) Polit and Beck, “Essentials of Nursing Research: Appraising Evidence for Nursing practice” by Wolters Kluwer and (2) Ross and Wilson, Applied Anatomy and Applied Physiology in Health and Illness by Elsevier Publications to her credit. I serve as a member of Board of Studies /Academic Council of 7 Universities in India. I also serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of nursing journals. I have six research scholars pursuing PhD under her guidance. She visited University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA as part of Faculty exchange program between SRIHER and University of Wisconsin. I am a member of the Editorial board of Journal of Advanced Nursing and Journal of Clinical Nursing. She serves as an executive committee member of St. Johns Ambulance Association, Tamil Nadu State center. Currently she is working on an ICMR funded research project titled, Effect of Probiotics on glycaemic control and pregnancy outcomes among women with Gestational diabetes and a Department of Health and Research Grant on Effectiveness of Family Integrated Lactation Management on breastmilk feeding outcomes among preterm babies
The Nursing Education team under my leadership received the University Best Teaching Team Excellence Award, 2021. I have functioned as the Core-Coordinator of the Workshop on B.Sc.(Nursing) Revised Syllabus: Curriculum Implementation organized by Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council in August 2022 for 382 administrators in the rank of Principal and Vice Principal and 900 faculty members of various nursing colleges in Tamil Nadu.

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