Infusion Nursing Time Study
Status: Completed
In home infusion, safety is supported by preparation, education, coordination, and relationships. The nurse brings clinical expertise into the home environment and adapts individualized care plans to the patient’s reality. That work requires judgment, flexibility, communication, and trust.
As home infusion continues to grow, the profession needs data that make this work visible. We need staffing models that account for coordination and documentation. We need productivity expectations that reflect travel and non-patient-facing care. We need reimbursement discussions that acknowledge the front-loaded nature of therapy initiation. And we need ongoing research that links nurse time and tasks to outcomes that matter. Patients find home infusion personal and reassuring. That is the goal. But behind that experience lies a complex system of professional work, much of it performed by nurses before, during, and after the home visit. It is essential to sustaining the model of care that patients increasingly prefer and the health care system increasingly relies on.
Home infusion succeeds when patients feel safe at home. Home infusion nurses are a major reason they do.
Nursing Workforce Study
Status: Completed
The National Home Infusion Foundation (NHIF) has initiated a study to fill a void in existing research describing the education, training, and experience of nurses in the home infusion workforce. This work will help educate infusion stakeholders on the specialized knowledge and skills of home infusion nurses as well as assess the current and future state of the infusion nursing workforce.
Pharmacist Professional Services Study Related to Specialty Drug Patient Care
Status: Completed
The National Home Infusion Foundation (NHIF) invited all specialty infusion providers to participate in a new research study involving pharmacists collecting time data on professional services related to specialty drug patient care.
The specialty drugs included in the proposed study are monoclonal antibodies, subcutaneous and intravenous immune globulin, and both self-injected and health care provider injected specialty medication. The results from this investigation will assist in quantifying the home infusion pharmacist’s time commitment to tasks involved with caring for the specialty drug home infusion patient.
NHIF Benchmarking Program (2019–2025)
Status: Completed
The National Home Infusion Foundation established the NHIF Benchmarking Program to collect standardized, industry-wide data that could serve as a national reference point for performance and clinical metrics in home and alternate site infusion.
The program rested on three design principles: standardized definitions, voluntary participation, and aggregate-only public reporting. Participating providers received individualized reports comparing their own submitted data against industry aggregates.
The measure definitions developed for the program remain available on the Standard Definitions page.
NHIF Home Infusion Pharmacist Professional Services Study
A Comparison of Home Infusion Patient Satisfaction Telehealth Visits Versus Home Visits Study
