ADVISORY BOARD 2021-22

 Dr. Parackal is a seasoned Nursing Officer and House Supervisor offering over 25 years' experience and success in improving patient care and quality outcomes. Accomplished in streamlining nursing activities, improving resource utilization, and optimizing patient safety. 

A proven leader committed to nurse education and helping nurses achieve personal and professional goals. Dr. Parackal is Instrumental to evidence-Based Practice Committee, helping improve best practices by collecting literature, presenting findings during meetings, and adopting new methods to reduce costs and improve delivery and quality of care. Dr. Parackal spearheaded BLS and ACLS certification courses and attended professional development trainings and workshops, communicating knowledge to staff to improve education and maximize training. Dr. Parackal acts as an Incident Command Officer during emergency situations, serving as primary point of contact for evacuations, admissions, and transfers and facilitating communication with contact command center staff through email and leadership meetings.

Dr. Parackal was able to implement mock code annually based on her project work and data findings. Her publications include Facts and Fictions of Leprosy, Leprosy is Curable, Barrier Nursing in India. The article titled Floating of Staff was published in Nursing Advisor. 

Dr. Parackal - Master trainer for TeamSTEPPS. She has number of affiliations and has multiple national certifications. She is the imagemaker of SAINA 2019. She is proven influential and a charismatic leader. She has multiple award such as Daisy award and Excellence in Nursing during Nurses Week 2019. Dr. Parackal was selected as employee of the month, Shining Star, Worldwide Leader in Education. Her determination to meet the organization mission is well known and a role model in professional nursing.

   Jai aspires to promote the well-being and health of diverse populations, promote healing, and foster patient and staff education through evidenced based practice in an effort to make an impact in the lives of others. Jai is a professionally trained Registered Nurse with over 28 years of experience in a variety of clinical settings both in United States and Overseas and strive to ensure high standards of culturally competent care for a wide variety of patients with diverse needs. In the past 28 years, Jai have obtained clinical experience in the Adult Internal Medicine, Intermediate progressive Care unit, Observation Unit, Acute Stroke Unit, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Emergency Care Unit and Medical –Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Also Jai is proficient in ACLS/BLS Protocol, Telemetry, Continuous Medication Infusions/Drips (Insulin, Heparin, Nicardipine, etc., Care of the Acute Stroke Patient with Certification via AHA, CIWA Protocol, Sunrise Expert, Staff Education, Group and 1:1 Staff Education, New RN Preceptor, Charge Nurse, Service Recovery, and Delegation of Nursing Tasks to Unlicensed Staff and LVNs. Jai has been working in University Health System since 2006 as Staff Nurse III/Charge Nurse IPCU/5ACU- University Health System. Jai started at UHS as Staff Nurse II /Primary bedside Nurse in the IPCU and have been an RN for the past Twelve years. In 2007 Jai transitioned to the position as Staff Nurse III/Charge Nurse on IPCU/5ACU. Before coming to USA in 2005 Jai has worked for more than 12 years in UAE as Charge Nurse in Intensive Care Unit. Jai is educated from Mumbai in India from the renowned Leelabhai Thackeray college of Nursing and is pursing Master of Science in Nursing from Capella University. Jai has been honored as the BEST 25 Nurses of South-Central Texas 2018 for Outstanding achievement in fostering the image of Nursing through exemplary practice and excellence in the art and Science of Nursing. Jai received the Shining Star for three consecutive years for Excellence in Customer Service-2011, 2012, 2013. Jai has been voted as the Best Nurse Of the year [2007] IPCU. Numerous Letters of recommendation from Supervisors, Peers, Colleagues and Patient and family complementing on my expertise, Teamwork and excellent patient care. Jai also Implemented the concept of Mock Code drill in the unit, which enabled staff to practice the Mock code and familiarize with steps needed to attend the Code effectively.