CLINICAL NURSING APPLICATIONS LABORATORY

Department: Internal Medicine-Nursing
Laboratory:  Clinical Nursing Applications Laboratory
Director: Professor Dr. Margarita Giannakopoulou
Secretariat: Emmanouil Chatiris 
Tel/Fax: +30 210 746 1443, +30210 746 1476
E-mail: mchatiris[at]uoa[dot]gr

Laboratory Contact Details

• Telephone: +30 210 746 1486, +30 210 746 1503 (Goudi), +30 210 350 1668 (Kifissia)
  Fax: +30 210 746 1476 (Goudi), +30 210 350 1668 (Kifissia)
  E-mail: ergastirionurse[at]gmail[dot]com

Room / Building

• Lab Teaching Room:
  3-04/05, Main  building of the Faculty of Nursing,
  123 Papadiamantopoulou St, Goudi, 11527 Athens, Greece
• Hospital:
  Office 15, Building of Oncology Unit, General Oncology.
  Kifissia Hospital “Agioi Anargiri”, 14 Timiou Stavrou & Noufaron  St, Kaliftaki 145 64 N. Kifissia,  Athens, Greece

General Description

The main purpose is the training of:

Under-graduate nursing students’ in nursing skills based on the following classes:

1. Fundamentals of Nursing, Surgical Nursing, Nursing Assessment, Neurological-Neurosurgical Nursing, Occupational Health, using various Models and instruments, as well as methods of demonstration

2. Graduate nursing students. Group work is done on research protocols and analysis of clinical cases

3. New hospital nurses training in specific skills, providing care to Hospital patients in G.O. Kifissia Hospital “Agioi Anargiri”.

Students develop theoretical and clinical skills necessary for the provision of holistic individualized care to individuals, families and groups in various health and illness situations, critical thinking and an understanding of the principles that support, interpret, and document nursing interventions.

In addition, groups of experts are organized for reviewing and adapting research instruments (questionnaires & scales).

The research work of the laboratory is reflected on the doctoral theses and the funded research programs, which are carried out in cooperation with other Universities of Greece and abroad.

Moreover, the Clinical Nursing Applications Lab is collaborated with the Clinical Guidelines Development Team of the Emergency and Intensive Care Nursing Department of the Hellenic Nurses Association. Also with the Greek Nursing Studies Association for the continuing nursing education and training mainly in advanced clinical skills, as well as with the Greek Medical Students' Association for the education of medical students in various clinical skills.

Laboratory Staff

Laboratory  Courses (undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum) - taught in the laboratory

Undergraduate Program 

• Fundamentals of Nursing
• Nursing Assessment
• Neurological & Neurosurgical Nursing
• Occupational Health
• Surgical Nursing I & II
• Pediatric Nursing
• Nursing of Kidney Disease

Postgraduate Program of Lectures

• Research Methodology
• Scientific Writing
• Special Issues in Nursing

Other Teaching Activities

• Professional Nurses’ teaching on Nursing Skills
• Continuing Nursing Education Program “Update of Fundamentals and Training in Advanced Nursing Competencies Required for Healthy and Unhealthy Individuals’ Care”

Infrastructure

The laboratory has equipment and mannequins (simple and simulation) for training in basic and advanced nursing interventions.

Laboratory Research Activities

• The effects of Guided Imagery and Progressive Muscle Relaxation Intervention in Cancer Patients, funded by the Euro-Mediterranean Research Center for Oncology and Palliative Care. Collaborators: Dr A. Charalambous (Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Nursing) - Prof. M. Giannakopoulou - (NKUA, Department of Nursing, Greece).
• Investigation of clinical nursing decision making process in Intensive Care Units. Funded by the scholarship “Herakleitos II”.  Scientific Responsible Prof. M. Giannakopoulou.
• Inter-relationships between genes and environment affecting teenage obesity. Collaborators: Prof. G. Dedoussis (Harokopio University), Prof. M. Giannakopoulou (NKUA Department of Nursing, Greece).  
• Autonomy, privacy & informed consent in nursing interventions (BIOMED2), funded by the EU- a comparative European research (Finland, Spain, Greece, Germany, UK) Prof C. Lemonidou.
• Individualised care from patient's point of view, A comparative international research (Finland, Sweden, UK, England, USA, Greece) Prof C. Lemonidou.
• Individualised care from the nurses' point of view - a comparative International research (Finland, Greece, Sweden, UK, England, Norway, Turkey, Portugal, Cyprus) Prof C. Lemonidou.
• Empowering Education of Patients with Osteoarthritis – Evaluation and International Comparison Prof C. Lemonidou.

Publications

1. Charalambous A, Giannakopoulou M, Bozas E, Paikousis L. “Parallel and serial mediation analysis between pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue and nausea, vomiting and retching within a randomised controlled trial in patients with breast and prostate cancer.” BMJ Open. 2019 Jan 24;9(1):e026809. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026809.
2. Kapritsou M, Kalafati M, Giannakopoulou M, Korkolis M, Siskou T, Konstantinou E.  “Cross correlation study among Visual Analogue Scale, Observational and Behavioral Pain Scales of Oncological Patients, Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery.” J PeriAnesthesia Nursing 2019  (In Press)
3. Nieri AS, Manousaki K, Kalafati M, Padilha KG, Stafseth SK, Katsoulas T, Matziou V, Giannakopoulou M. “Validation of the Nursing Workload Scoring Systems “Nursing Activities Score” (NAS), and “Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System for Critically Ill Children” (TISS-C) in a Greek Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.” Intensive & Critical Care Nursing 2018, 48:3-9.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2018.03.005
4. Kapritsou M, Korkolis PD, Giannakopoulou M, Kaklamanos I, Gontikakis Ε, Konstantinou M, Katsoulas T, Kiekkas P, Konstantinou EΑ. “Fast-track Recovery Program after Major Liver Resection: A Prospective Randomized Study.”  Gastroenterology Nursing 2018, 41(2):104-110.
5. Dionisakopoulou C, Giannakopoulou M, Palaiologos G, Bozas E, Zannikos K, Matziou V. “Validation of the Greek version of pain scales NIPS and PIPP in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.” Pain Management Nursing 2018, 19(3):313-319.