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IHCNO 2025 DAISY Awards Online Presentation

Please join the IHCNO Board of Directors to meet and celebrate the 2025 IHCNO DAISY Home Care Nurse Honorees!

Join us on 24 September 2025 at 10 AM ET

Please check the world clock for the time where you live.

The Zoom meeting link for the awards presentations is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86858810789?pwd=Q5f7vtehuhoDz36v8BH3PU6cY34P5M.1.


 

President's Message - 

Susan Hinck

The need for home-based care is greater now than ever before and will continue to grow. There are two main reasons for the rise in home care.  One reason is the expansion of healthcare programs into the home. Hospitals and surgical centers are safely sending patients home from surgical recovery units without overnight hospital stays. Patients may receive daily in-person or telehealth visits from their surgeons to provide medical care and support the highly skilled home-based nurses. In addition, public health programs are expanding maternal-infant, mental health, and wellness programs in the home to prevent illness and hospitalization.

A second reason home-based care is expanding is that populations who have historically benefited from nursing care in the home are increasing. Terms used in some countries, such as super-aging, indicate that populations over age 65 are growing. While for many populations, healthy aging has extended middle age through the 60s, the number of octogenarians through centenarians who live at home is rapidly increasing. Home-based nurses help older adults remain independent, stay healthier longer, and have a better quality of life.

IHCNO is dedicated to helping nurses thrive in home-based care. We bring together seasoned and novice nurses to learn from each other and to develop and share resources to guide quality care. Examples in this newsletter of opportunities to be your best professional self are the update on the in-person conference in London in 2026 and the call for submissions for the Marilyn D. Harris $5,000 research award.

A new project I am sharing with you is the request by Springer Nature Publishing for a book about home-based nursing care. The way this came about was when Marilyn Harris and I pitched the idea of a book written by home care nurses for home care nurses to a Springer representative at the International Council of Nurses congress in Vienna in April. The book content will be beneficial to clinicians, preceptors, educators, researchers, and legal authorities who regulate nursing practice. The publishers were interested, and we submitted a proposal outlining the unique knowledge and skills of this nursing specialty, recommendations for education and clinical experience of prelicensure students and practicing nurses, examples of technology in home care, and types of home care nursing worldwide. Going forward, we will need expert nurses to author chapters and serve as peer reviewers. Please consider how you might contribute. We will share more about this project in the coming months.

Susan Hinck, PhD, APRN, GCNS-BC
President, IHCNO

 


 

Welcome to our newest members!

These members have joined our international nursing community since January 1, 2025:

Lea Agaton

Mary Ahlers

Susan Antol

Marie Blessington

Kathy Bowles

Noah Brophy

Karen Curry

Maryanne D'Arpino

Jennifer Dumouchelle

Trinity Elkins

Alex Erejo

Eleni Georgiou-Ionnaou

Lina Guertler

Sheila Guither

Ipyana Kajembula

Youngmin Kim

Kristin Knudson

Feng Ping Lee

Kallie Ludinich

Kathleen Marsala-Cervasio

Rose Mogere

Milagros Nuez

Crystal Oldman

Matt Sevier

Melanie Shook

Mary St. Plerre

Lisa Turner

Carol Wanyo

Ion Hong Wong

Jasmine Wu

Sandra Zwakhalen

 

 

 

 


Thank you to our 2025 donors - we appreciate your support of IHCNO:

IHCNO Giving Tree


Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2025 Webinar Series

Into The Future: Advancing Home-Based Nursing Practice Webinar Series

This series is an opportunity for nurses to obtain updated home health care information and tools that foster effective patient-centered communication, care planning, and innovative service modalities - all of which are essential for improved patient health outcomes, safety, quality of life, and alignment between the care provided and the needs and wishes for care of the patients.

Registration is still available for On-Demand recordings and CE credits.

Click here for registration information

 


 

 

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IHCNO 2025 DAISY Awards Online Presentation

Wed
24
2025
September 24, 2025
10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

Join us to meet and celebrate the 2025 IHCNO DAISY Home Care Nurse Honorees!

Zoom

Wednesday, September 24, 2025
10 AM Eastern time in the USA. Please check the world clock for the time where you live.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86858810789

President's Forum

Tue
11
2025
November 11, 2025
8:00AM - 9:00AM EST

Zoom

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International Guidelines

The International Guidelines for Home Health Nursing Practice (Guidelines) are guiding principles for nurses who aspire to provide excellent care to patients in their homes. The Guidelines were developed by international home care nurses from diverse countries to provide guidance to nurses around the globe who seek to develop their professional home healthcare practice and performance.

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