Introduction and Goals

Around the world, home health nurses provide care for individuals, support families, and interact with communities. Research and evidence-based practice are important components of home health nursing and bring value to our profession and specialty.

The IHCNO is interested in fostering relationships with and between researchers or clinicians that investigate the quality of home health care and home health nursing within the international community. We are especially interested in research related to the International Guidelines for Home Health Nursing.

For more information about the Research Committee and its work, please email [email protected].

Goals

  1. Create a network of home health nurse researchers dedicated to research and scholarship within home health settings and academia.
  2. Foster collaboration among researchers within or across countries to conduct research related to the Guidelines and other areas of interest to home health nurses.
  3. Showcase current projects or research that promote the science of home health nursing and support knowledge development and dissemination of the Guidelines (Guideline #9: Evidence-Based Practice / Research).
  4. Advise home health nursing researchers on available grant funding opportunities and research conferences.