Alison L. Kitson, BSc(Hons), PhD, RN, FRCN, FAAN, FAHMS, is Vice President and Executive Dean, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Accepted for publication September 12, 2017.
This paper was accepted under the Editorship of Susan J. Henly.
The author would like to acknowledge colleagues (Rebecca Feo, Post Doctoral Research Fellow; Tiff Conroy and Jan Alderman, Lecturers in Nursing; Rick Wiechula and Philippa Rasmussen, Senior Lecturers; and all members of the Adelaide Nursing School Fundamentals of Care Research Program) who have worked tirelessly with me on developing and refining the concepts that have shaped the fundamentals of care framework. The author would also like to acknowledge members of the International Learning Collaborative who have contributed significantly to the ideas around fundamental care, in particular to Yvonne Wengstrom, Professor of Nursing at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Jack Needleman, Fred W. & Pamela Wasserman Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, California; Asa Muntlin Athlin, Head of Research, Department of Emergency Care and Internal Medicine, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden; Eva Jangland, Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden; and Erik Sorensen, Professor in Clinical Nursing, Alborg University, Denmark.
The author has no conflicts of interest to report.
Corresponding author: Alison L. Kitson, BSc(Hons), PhD, RN, FRCN, FAAN, FAHMS, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 (e-mail: [email protected]).
