Leadership for fundamental care: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

This Special Issue celebrates leadership for Fundamental Care with a wide and diverse variety of topics being covered. Healthcare and nursing leaders cannot ignore the impact of the COVID pandemic. Several papers have described how this was undertaken (Amaral et al., 2022; Sugg et al., 2022; Schroberer et al., 2022) and how leadership interventions shaped patients' experiences of fundamental care during the pandemic. Contributions from around the globe have ranged from discursive pieces to descriptive and empirical work. While our work on improving the scientific basis has still some way to go, the effort and desire to create improvements and change in fundamental care delivery are real and palpable.