Christos Andreou is a Senior Nursing Officer and currently works as nurse educator in the Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences at Cyprus University of Technology. He received his PhD on the exploration of individual learning styles and critical thinking among undergraduate nursing students as well as the relationships between those variables. His qualifications also include Master of Atrium on Health Services Management, Bachelor of Science (Hons) on Nursing Science, Diploma on Nursing Administration and Certified on Erasmus Intensive Programme Empowering learning environments in Nursing Εducation.
He was the Chief Editor of the national scientific journal Cyprus Nursing Chronicles
[...]since 2000 until 2015. He served as General Secretary and member of Cyprus Nurses and Midwives Association Board of Directors for the period 2000-2015 and as a member of the National Bioethics Committee for the period 2011-2015. He currently serves as a member of the National Review Bioethics Committee for Biomedical Research on Human Being and their biological substances and the clinical trials on Medicinal Products of Human Use.
He served as a clinical nurse for 8 years in Surgical, Urological and Intensive Care Unit. Since 2003 is working as nurse educator in baccalaureate nursing. His principal goal is to teach in line within the principles of adult learning, evidence-based practice and individualized approach of students towards potential achievements of learning outcomes. Subjects regards his classroom teaching experience refer to Fundamentals in Nursing, Nursing Administration, Surgical Nursing and Urological Nursing. Since 2010 is mainly a laboratory instructor on Nursing Fundamentals and Supervisor nurse instructor for the clinical education of students.
His main research areas concern the theory-practice gap in Nursing and topics related on teaching, learning and critical thinking development within undergraduate nursing education. He has published articles at national and international level related with the concept of critical thinking in Nursing, the individual learning styles, the critical thinking and its relationship in baccalaureate nursing education as well as a methodological study on the adaptation and the validation of the Learning Style Inventory Version III in Greek language. He currently researched focused on the potential optimization of the learning achievements and the critical thinking development among undergraduate nursing students. He is a reviewer in several peer-reviewed international journals and a speaker in national and international conferences.