President's Message - 

Other colleagues and I have been busy representing IHCNO at international congresses:

World Hospital at Home in Vienna, Austria, in April,

International Council of Nurses in Helsinki, Finland, in June, and

Sigma International Nursing Research in Seattle, United States, in July.

Our presentations and discussions about home-based nursing care are enthusiastically received, developing new relationships and expanding the influence of IHCNO. We are passionate about bringing together like-minded nurses who provide many different types of home-based nursing within this specialty practice. Our travel is always fully self-financed and at no cost to IHCNO as part of our commitment to advancing quality home-based nursing practice.

We receive emails from individuals around the world asking how they can be involved in IHCNO. Our committees offer leadership and learning opportunities for you to make a difference in home-based nursing care. Projects include developing undergraduate curriculum and student experiences in home-based nursing, creating clinical orientation and mentoring programs, establishing preceptor competencies and evaluations, identifying best practices for clinical care, and creating a certification program to recognize individuals and validate their specialty expertise to employers and patients. As foundational information, read Kathy Duckett’s article in this newsletter about the task force conducting seminal work on the scope and standards of home-based nursing practice.

To further evidence-based practice, our request for applications for research funding is open and posted on our website. The Marilyn D. Harris Grant offers up to $5,000 to support nursing research or a quality management project. Find more information at https://ihcno.org/aws/IHCNO/pt/sp/grant-info.

To learn more about IHNCO opportunities, please join me for an informal conversation during the President’s Forum on August 12th, at 8 am Eastern Daylight Time. The Zoom link is here and on our website https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83111910742?pwd=A14jaBtMFWa0sTNclTXHzzIsvnqSVp.1. I look forward to seeing you there.

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

IHCNO President’s Forum (12 August 2025, 8am EDT) Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83111910742?pwd=A14jaBtMFWa0sTNclTXHzzIsvnqSVp.1

Meeting ID: 831 1191 0742
Passcode: 696820

Welcome to our newest members!

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

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

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