2026 ILC Conference Program

08:00–08:45
Registration
Lobby
08:45–09:00
Opening of Conference: Sir Jonathan Montgomery
Room
09:00–09:40
Meaningful Missions: Strengthening Strategic Partnerships in Future-Proofing Person-Centre Fundamental Care Professor Mette Groenkjaer, Denmark
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
09:40–09:50
Q&A
09:50–10:30
The Human Capital Value of Nursing in the Age of Big Tech Dr Olga Yakusheva, USA
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
10:30–10:40
Q&A
10:40–11:10
Morning Tea
Lobby
11:10–12:30 Concurrent Sessions
Rethinking Care and Person-centred fundamental care in a Changing World
11:10
Exploring the integration of care in relation to Emergency Department contextual factors and patient characteristics.
Mr Henrik Duhalde, Sweden
11:25
Future-Proofing Person-Centred Care through using the Fundamentals of Care Framework in settings where healthcare is provided: a scoping review
Dr Maiken holm Kaldal, Danmark
11:40
Building the Bridge: Connecting Magnet Excellence with ILC Fundamentals and LAMP Mentorship
Dr Rhonda Babine, United States
12:00
Embedding Personhood into Practice: Co-Designing Compassionate, Person-Centred Fundamental Care in a Complex Continuing Care Setting
Ms Rebecca Ramsden & Ms. Melissa Turner-Joseph, Canada
12:15
From ‘a box of chocolate’ to a Fundamentals of Care ‘hands on’ tool
Mrs Lise Thorsen, Denmark
Rethinking Care and Person-centred fundamental care in a Changing World
11:10
Embedding Fundamentals of Care: Redefining the Named Nurse Role in Mental Health Inpatient Services
Dr Rebecca Pulford, United Kingdom
11:25
Fundamentals of care - Translating and cultural adaptation into Norwegian application
Associate Professor Kirsten Røland Byermoen, Norge
11:40
Future-Proofing Person-Centered Fundamental Care: Developing a Complex Intervention to Reduce Missed Nursing Care in Orthopedic Care Settings
Mrs Sara Ellehave, Denmark
12:00
Enhancing Diabetes Knowledge Among Non-Endocrinology Nurses: Evidence-Based Strategies for Person Centred Fundamental Care in Danish Hospitals
Mrs Sandra Ileby Rokkedrejer, Danmark
12:15
A Nurse-Led Investigation of Chaplain Visits in Advanced Heart Failure Care: Exploring Spiritual and Physiological Health Dimensions
Mr William Fyler, United States
Rethinking Care and Person-centred fundamental care in a Changing World
11:10
Measuring the Science of Caring: A Patient-Centred Predictive Model for the Caring Interaction
Associate Professor Regina Allande-Cussó, Spain
11:25
Future-Proofing Person-Centred Fundamental Care: A Scoping Review of Consumer and Carer Experiences in an Era of Technological Transformation
Dr Colleen Marzilli, United States
11:40
Future-proofing person-centred postoperative nursing care: mapping symptom assessment tools to fundamental nursing care needs
Associate Professor Pia Kjær Kristensen, Danmark
12:00
Navigating AI in Nursing Care: Nurses’ Experiences with an AI-Based Monitoring System
Dr Amanda Agnes Østervig Buus, Denmark
12:15
Rethinking Cultural Competence in End-of-Life Care: A Meta-synthesis on delivering a culturally meaningful Good Death
Miss Lara Delbene, Italy
12:35
Poster Session
13:05–13:50
Lunch
Lobby
13:50–15:05 Concurrent Sessions
Fundamental Care Innovations and applying Evidence in Practice
13:50
Facilitating the Assessment of Fundamental Nursing Care in Denmark: Translation, Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the 41-Item FoC Intelligence Modelling Tool
Senior Researcher Maria Kjøller Pedersen, Denmark
14:05
Patients’ Assessment and Experience of Fundamental Care and Person-Centred Climate – A Study Within the InCHARGE Programme
Associate Professor Lena Nyholm, Sweden
14:20
Evaluating Nurse Manager Strategies for Effective Implementation of the Fundamentals of Care
Dr Domenico Lombardi Fortino, Italia
14:40
Using robots in nursing care, an explorative study into perspectives of nurses and the hospital management
Dr Harmieke van Os-Medendorp, Netherlands
14:55
The impact of Primary Nursing on the documentation of the Fundamental of Care: an observational study
Dr Chiara Maddalo, Italia
Fundamental Care Innovations and applying Evidence in Practice
13:50
Simulation-based training to integrate the Fundamentals of Care framework in interdisciplinary neurorehabilitation
Kortegaard, J.L. & Berth, L.S., Denmark
14:05
Facilitating fundamental perioperative care: Team-based implementation to keep patients warm during surgery.
Associate Priofessor Judy Munday, Australia
14:20
Design and Validation of the FoC-PP Rubric: Strengthening Evidence-based Education for Person-centred Fundamental Care
Ms Talita Sallai, Italy
14:35
The person-centred team round guided by the Fundamentals of Care framework – a complex implementation supported by the ILC Leadership & Mentoring Program
Dr Therese Avallin, Sverige
14:50
Future-Ready Fundamental Care: Advancing the PSP Role to Strengthen Compassionate, Person-Centred Practice
Mrs Tracey DasGupta, Canada
Leadership and System Transformation for the Future Care Economy
13:50
Transforming Health Systems Through Nursing Leadership: Cultural Mediation in Implementing the Fundamentals of Care
Dr Alessio Rizzo, Italia
14:05
Future proofing person-centered nursing care for hospitalized older patients with frailty to reduce Missed Nursing Care by nurse-led interventions
Mis Mette Marx Christensen, Denmark
14:20
Transforming Together at Scale: Whole-System, Person-Centred Approaches to Hospital Quality and Safety
Professor Clint Douglas, Australia
14:35
“Reimagining Care: Leading System Transformation Through the Fundamentals of Care Framework”
Mrs Leanne Hughes, Canada
14:50
Making Fundamentals of Care a Real Practice: Insights from ILC’s Leadership and Mentorship Program
Dr Lianne Jeffs, Canada
15:15–15:45
Networking Session
15:45–16:15
Afternoon Tea
Lobby
16:15–16:55
Keynote Presentation Professor Jane Ball, UK
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
16:50–17:00
Q&A
17:00–17:15
Summary of Day One
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
08:00–08:45
ILC Annual General Meeting - ILC Member Only (Live & Virtual)
08:30–09:00
Breakfast
Lobby
09:00–09:10
Opening of Day Two
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
09:10–09:50
Keynote Presentation Dr Helen Walthall, UK
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
09:50–10:00
Q&A
10:00–10:30
Plenary Presentation Amanda Williams, UK
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
10:30–10:40
Q&A
10:40–11:10
Morning Tea
11:10–12:30 Concurrent Sessions
Workforce Wellbeing and Compassionate Care in organisations
11:10
Fundamental Care Innovations and applying evidence in practice through an A to F Mobilisation approach
Mr Michael Bartley, United Kingdom
11:25
Supporting aged care workers to provide person centred fundamental care and self-care
Professor Tiffany Conroy, Australia
11:40
The Butterfly Effect of Fundamental Care
Dr Devin Carr, United States
12:00
Virtual Nursing in Acute Care Hospitals: Applications, Facilitators, and Barriers for Future-Proof Person-Centred Care
Mrs Charlotte Brandt Kruhøffer, Germany
12:15
Embedding Fundamentals of Care into a Postpartum Hemorrhage Bundle in a Tertiary Hospital’s Labour and Delivery Unit
Miss Jessica Pacheco, Canada
Lived Experiences and Relationships in Care from the consumer and carer’s perspective
11:10
The Lived Experience of the Trusting Nurse–Patient Relationship Among Patients Admitted to Internal Medicine Wards
Mrs Silvia Loua Henriksen, Danmark
11:25
From Evidence to Engagement: Co-Designing a Digital Resource to Strengthen Therapeutic Relationships
Dr Rebecca Feo, Australia
11:40
The patient’s voice in nutritional and mobility care: does it change after implementing comfort rounding? A qualitative interview study
Mrs Femke Becking, Nederland
12:00
Integrating Fundamentals of Care Through Interprofessional Bedside Rounding to Reduce Patient Harm
Mrs Geraldine Webster, USA
12:15
Making the invisible visible: Existential needs as an element of person-centered fundamental care in the emergency room
Dr Veronica Pavedahl, Sweden
Concurrent Session 3- Ethics, Philosophy and the Future of Caring from an education and practice perspective
11:10
Transitioning to Practice through the Fundamentals of Care: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Newly Graduated Nurses
Dr Daniela Cattani, Italia
11:25
Co-defining culturally sensitive and relational whānau/family-inclusive inpatient care in adult inpatient services.
Dr Kim Ward, New Zealand
11:40
Future proofing person-centered fundamental care in home care nursing
Dr Mette Geil Kollerup, Danmark
12:00
Digital Health as a Barrier or Enabler of Person-centred Fundamental Care: A Qualitative Study of Patients’ Experiences
Dr Belle Mia Ingerslev Loft, Danmark
12:15
Fundamentals First: Embedding Social Determinants of Health, Relational Care, and Interprofessional Collaboration in Critical Care Nurse Onboarding
Mr Michael DeFrancisco, United States
12:35–13:05
Poster Session
13:05–13:50
Lunch
Lobby
14:00–15:30 Parallel Workshops
Fundamentals of Care in Practice Workshop
Fundamentals of Care in Research Workshop
Fundamentals of Care in Education Workshop
15:30–16:00
AFTERNOON TEA
16:00–16:05
Poster Presentation Competition Winner Annouced
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
16:05–16:50
Endnote: Professor Alison Kitson - Future Proofing Person Centred Fundamental Care
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
16:45–17:00
Conference Wrap Up - 2027 Conference Annoucement - Alison Kitson
Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre