The function of the Advocacy Committee is to disseminate and promote the professional image of home-based nursing, empower home-based nurses to strengthen their voices as advocates for excellent care, the Sustainable Development Goals, and healthy work environments. We are recruiting committee members that represent IHCNO's worldwide membership. Please, won't you join us?
Email chairperson; Patricia Grimes MSN, RN [email protected] if you are interested.

Bylaws Committee

Communication Committee

The Communications Committee is responsible for maintaining the IHCNO website in both context and content, utilizing social media platforms, providing newsletters and messages in digital format with a goal of encouraging home care nurses from around the world to utilize the IHCNO website for information and the exchange of ideas.
 

DAISY Award Committee

Education Committee

The Education Committee aims to foster growth in home care nursing knowledge, understanding, and practice through conference and webinar planning, providing information and resources for our website, and conducting other educational and collaborative activities for home care nurses and patients.

Finance Committee

Membership Outreach Committee

Help us support nurses in our network. Welcome new nurses and answer their questions. Or help grow our network through outreach efforts and making connections.

Nominations Committee

Program Planning Committee

Publications Committee

Research Committee

 Researchers and nurses interested in research can help by serving on our grants review committee, by helping design and facilitate research on the International Guidelines for Home Health Nursing, by helping nurse researchers find fellow researchers interested in international collaboration, or by mentoring nurses new to research.

History
March 2009 – Tina Marrelli, former editor of Home Healthcare Now, shared her hope for a “home care nurse-focused organization” in the journal. For more information, see Tina’s editorial: Marrelli, T. (2009). The interdisciplinary team, a free resource, and a survey to complete about the International Home Care Nurses Organization (IHCNO). Home Healthcare Now, 27(3) 138-139.

October 2009 – Tina Marrelli collaborated with Elizabeth Madigan, IHCNO leaders, reporting on the survey in which home health nurses communicated their hopes for IHCNO which was envisioned as a global “platform” for home health nurses to communicate and network. For more information, see: Marrelli, T., & Madigan, E. (2009). Update about the International Nurses Organization – A functional home care nurse-focused “meeting place.” Home Healthcare Now, 27(9), 513.
May 2011 – April 2012 – Planning committee development and global outreach.
June 2013 – Inaugural Global Conference – Co-hosted with Case-Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA