The Global Federations for Primary & Community Health Nursing connects organisations with a global community of primary and community health nurses leading change from the ground up. Grounded in frontline practice and embedded in communities, the federation brings together nurses and partners who are delivering care, solving problems, and strengthening health systems every day.
Through shared learning, collaboration, and collective action, members contribute to advancing nurse-led, community-based solutions that improve access, quality, and continuity of care worldwide.
CCDR is a nurse-led iNGO, which means our programs are grounded in the core principles of nursing practice and designed to ensure autonomy, holism, and patient-centeredness. In practice, this means our services and programs:
- Support autonomous nursing practice within professional standards, enabling nurses to apply clinical judgment based on their skills, education, and expertise.
- Provide direct access without requiring referrals, allowing patients and participant the choice to engage
- Leverage the nursing vantage point across disciplines and care settings, bringing a unique understanding of people and their lived contexts.
- Focus on holistic, continuous patient care throughout a person’s life.
- Prioritise meaningful patient interaction, maximizing direct time with those we serve.
- Enable nurses to work at their full scope of practice, including ongoing assessment, monitoring, interventions, and patient education.
- Address the physical, emotional, and social needs of individuals and communities.
- Uphold patient advocacy, ensuring that needs and preferences are heard, respected, and elevated.
- Cultivate collegial generosity, fostering open, respectful communication and collaboration across healthcare professions.
- Maintain space for ethical reflection, ensuring that all services are grounded in an ethical framework and delivered with integrity.
Sponsor a Pathways nurse
Individual
Enrich our growing community.
- Supports virtual clinic platform access
- Helps cover connectivity costs so the nurse can reach patients reliably.
- Provides access to digital health resources, such as symptom and assessment tools
Family
Support essential development.
- Covers maintenance of patient record systems for safe, accurate data handling.
- Funds ongoing professional development for nurses to manage complex conditions remotely and endure time for follow-up
Patron
Take support to the next level.
- Supports the employment cost of a qualified nurse delivering care virtually.
- Funds cybersecurity protections to ensure data remain secure.
- Supports follow-up care systems
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