The leading Global Professional Membership Association Advancing Standardized Nursing Language

What We Do

INKA: Advancing Nursing Knowledge from Research to Clinical Practice

Nursing Classification & Clinical Reasoning

Assessment-driven, diagnosis-centered clinical reasoning across the nursing process.

INKA develops and maintains the NANDA-I Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classification, the global foundation for standardized nursing diagnoses. Building on this work, NANDA 360 expands nursing classification and clinical reasoning across the full nursing process to support evidence-informed practice and clinical decision-making.

Education & Practice

Applying nursing knowledge in education and clinical practice.

INKA supports educators and clinicians through courses, webinars, NANDAcast, the NANDA 360 Institute, the Institute of Nursing Knowledge, and the Gordon Program, providing structured learning and practical resources that strengthen the use of nursing knowledge in practice.

Research & Scholarship

Advancing nursing knowledge through research, validation, and global dissemination.

INKA supports the development and refinement of nursing knowledge through research and scholarly collaboration. The INKA Foundation research grants fund studies that strengthen the evidence base for nursing diagnoses and classification, while the Research Registry and the International Journal of Nursing Knowledge (IJNK) provide platforms for sharing and advancing this work worldwide.

Global Collaboration & Engagement

Connecting members to advance nursing knowledge worldwide.

Through memberships, INKA Network Groups, and conferences, INKA brings together nurses, scholars, and educators from around the world to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and contribute to the ongoing development of nursing practice globally.

Our Impact: Advancing the Future of Nursing Practice

Building a Global Nursing Community

Expanding Professional Networking

INKA provides a powerful network that allows you to connect with other nursing professionals around the world. This networking plays a critical role in allowing you to participate in your profession to the best of your ability, and it also provides invaluable benefits for everyone involved in our discipline.

Many nurses are looking for ideas regarding how to implement NANDA both in practice and in an electronic health environment to decrease duplication in documentation and get the most out of the system. When you become a member of INKA, you’ll be able to see the work of other nurses and discover interesting innovations in the standardization of nursing language as it’s being applied globally. With our vast professional network, nurses around the world are able to learn from each other and understand new ways to approach the classification of terms.

As an INKA member, you can unlock these networking benefits in a variety of ways, including through our:

• Seminars
• Journal articles
• Newsletter
• Blogs and social media posts
• Conferences
• INKA Network Groups
• Educational materials
• Books and other publications

Academic & Scholarly Partnerships

We also partner with the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College in maintaining the global initiative, The Marjory Gordon Program for Clinical Reasoning and Knowledge Development, which provides an opportunity for post-doctoral scholarships that enable continuing collaboration and dialogue with other scholars in the nursing discipline. This program connects international post-doctoral scholars who are leaders in the discipline with one another as well as with international leaders, providing a powerful way to move the nursing field forward.

Supporting Research & Knowledge Exchange

Sharing Personal Research

INKA provides nurses with an opportunity to stay on the forefront of the discipline, be aware of what’s happening in the field, and to contribute their own work to the larger dialogue of the nursing community. We regularly feature the work of individual nurses in our INKA podcasts, journals, seminars and newsletters. You can also present your personal research at our INKA conferences.

By featuring the research of a diverse group of nursing professionals, we’re able to move the discipline forward in a variety of important ways:

• Encouraging international collaboration among nurses
• Connecting nurses in different parts of the world who are doing similar research, enabling them to contribute to each other’s success and knowledge
• Enabling nurses to learn about new research methodologies related to knowledge development and standardized language and how to translate results into practice
• Providing nurses with opportunities to publish and present their research to international audiences who otherwise may never benefit from this knowledge

Strengthening the Voice of Nursing in Healthcare

Giving Nurses a Voice in Patient Care

At INKA, we have an international focus that supports clinical nurses across all areas of the discipline. Our organization is doing work that is pushing the discipline of nursing forward, ensuring its place at the table as health care advances within a multidisciplinary manner.

Making Nursing Contributions Visible

Through our efforts, nurses in individual clinical practice are becoming increasingly present in patient records. In addition, the terms outlined in NANDA 360 enable healthcare professionals to identify the impact of clinical nurses on their patients’ outcomes, including a reduction in:

• Length of stay
• Returns to the hospital
• Morbidity and mortality rates

The standardized terms established by NANDA 360 also allow the work of nurses to be addressed in electronic records. This demonstrates the work they are doing as well as the need to address the growing demand for nurses in medical facilities around the world, and to facilitate the research which demonstrates their impact on patient outcomes.