Anyone reading this newsletter knows that the IHCNO, in conjunction with the American Nurses Association is conducting a project to develop the International Scope and Standards for Home-Based Nursing Practice. This project has reached a new phase. After using various methods to connect and contact home-based nurses around the world we have collected data from nurses from about 40 countries, which includes all the 6 WHO geographic regions of the world. Our participants also came from many different types of home-based nursing (HBN) models, which address the needs of different populations of patients throughout their life cycles.
We used 4 surveys to collect data about the status and scope of HBN in the participants’ countries and their opinions and vision of what the standards and competencies should be for high-quality HBN into the future. All the surveys have been completed, and the researchers are now in the process of analyzing the data, which will be used by a Task Force to actually develop the standards. The IHCNO is actually enhancing the quality of HBN around the world with this project!