Fundamental nursing care is multidimensional and complex and a prerequisite for safe patient care and treatment (Feo & Kitson, 2016).In a nursing education context, it is therefore imperative to integrate pedagogical initiatives in curricula that support the teaching of the complexities of fundamental care. However, existing studies have underlined that nursing students find it difficult to identify fundamental care needs, such as physical, psychosocial, and relational elements of care (Jangland et al., 2018), and there is lack of education on basic nursing care at the bachelor level (Huisman-de Waal et al., 2018). Thus, there is a need to explore curricular and educational initiatives that are aimed at developing nursing students' understanding of what fundamental nursing care is and requires.Clinical placements are an essential part of the pre-registration nursing program. In the European Union, clinical placements constitute a minimum of 50% of nursing programs and is therefore central