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President's Message -

Please join me on Tuesday, August 11 at 8 am Eastern Standard Time for the quarterly President’s Forum. This is a casual discussion about what is important to you, IHCNO projects and committees, and how you can be more involved in our activities. A Zoom link will be emailed to all IHCNO members before the meeting.

The IHCNO-endorsed book, An International Evidence-Based Framework for Professional Home-Based Nursing Care, is in the final stages of pre-production, with authors submitting final chapters. The book has 48 chapters with 64 authors representing 28 countries. Susan Hinck and Marilyn Harris are the co-editors. Springer Nature Publishing will offer the book in 2027 with free open-access downloads from the IHCNO website and hardbound copies available for purchase.

In addition, the International Scope and Standards for Home Healthcare Nursing is planned for publication early next year, and free open access will be available on the IHCNO website. The scope and standards are the culmination of a 3-year research project. The research started with two questions: Are there universalities in Home Healthcare Nursing around the world? Could these universalities, if they exist, be the foundation for international standards for home healthcare practice?

To answer these questions, we conducted four international surveys with about 300 home healthcare nurse participants from about 40 countries (with representation from WHO’s six geographic regions). We then recruited a task force of 25 nurses from 15 countries (representing all six WHO regions). They reviewed the research findings, and we employed a Delphi-like approach to develop a visionary scope and standards document. The task force agreed that these should be the goals for home healthcare nursing in their countries, while respecting the current realities and cultural and economic diversity of nursing there. We are grateful to the nurses who participated in the surveys and served on the task force.

I hope you enjoy reading about additional IHCNO activities in this August newsletter and celebrate with us as we highlight the people and accomplishments of our community of nurses.

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

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The IHCNO is now affiliated with the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The ICN is a federation of more than 140 national nurses’ associations representing the 30 million nurses worldwide. ICN grants affiliate status to international specialist nursing organizations whose mission, mandate, constitution, and objectives are consistent with those of ICN and who have nurses as the majority of their members. ICN works within policy advocacy, global health partnerships, leadership development, expanding networks, and more.