01/05/2026

Springer Nature book

Invitation for you to submit a manuscript for a book chapter.

Invitation for you to submit a manuscript for a book chapter.

IHCNO, in collaboration with Springer Nature Publishing, is developing a book about home-based nursing care. The title is An International Evidence-Based Framework for Professional Home-Based Nursing Care

Editors:

Susan M. Hinck PhD APRN GCNS-BC

Marilyn D. Harris MSN RN NEA-BC FAAN

The nine parts of the book are:

1. Home-based Nursing (HBN) is a Specialty Area of Practice. This part introduces a theoretical framework to explain key concepts relevant to care of any age group or approach to care in the home, similarities in nursing practice across cultures or geographic locations, and an explanation of cultural competence.
2. Scope and Standards of Home-Based Professional Nursing Practice. The IHCNO international research study conducted in 2024-2025 and findings will be presented.
3. Student Learning and Clinical Experiences. Undergraduate and graduate level curriculum and clinical experience for home-based nursing practice in various countries will be highlighted.
4. Promoting Clinical Excellence. This part explores the transition to home-based nursing practice, onboarding training and orientation essentials, precepting, residency programs, and mentoring.
5. Leadership in Home-Based Professional Nursing Practice. This part of the book will provide a critical understanding of leadership in legal and ethical issues in HBN, such as the responsibility of nurse autonomy, supporting patient authority to achieve patient goals, leading an inter-disciplinary team, delegation within the care team, nurse-patient boundary issues, and safety of clinicians. This part will also discuss economic literacy and demonstrating value in HBN practice.
6. Technology in Home Care. Content in this part will explore the use and promise of technology to provide efficient and effective care, electronic data collection, digital health literacy, and the use of artificial intelligence to support nursing care.
7. Measuring and Improving Quality of Care. Patient outcomes as measures of quality will be defined and the nurse’s role in data collection and documentation of nursing care will be highlighted.
8. Next Steps into the Future. This part will explore the health and healthcare among high- and low-resource counties, migration of nurses, and environmentally sustainable care in the home. Recommendations for further research and action will be presented.
9. International Perspectives and Nursing Roles. This final part of the book will present case studies about HBN in different countries identifying various populations, age groups, types of nursing practice, and resources. Chapter examples may be about case management, hospital-at-home, midwifery care in the home, mental health services, wound care, hospice care, or other types of nursing care. We will provide more detailed format instructions to potential authors.

Chapter Format

Each part of the book will have multiple chapters. The length of each chapter will vary with a range of approximately 4,500 to 8,000 words. The format of each chapter will be.

• 2 to 5 Learning Outcomes for the chapter
• Introduction to the chapter topic
• Body of the text
• Conclusion
• 2 or 3 Reflection questions

We have received interest from many prospective authors and will provide more detailed instructions to you this month.  If you have not contacted us and are interested in sharing your expertise as a chapter author or co-author, or if you have ideas for content we did not include, please let us know. Our emails are below.

Susan M. Hinck, SusanHinck@aol.com

Marilyn D. Harris, mharris555@verizon.net