Our Members - NANDA

A Global Community Advancing Nursing Knowledge

INKA (formerly NANDA® International) is an international nursing knowledge association committed to defining, advancing, and uniting the discipline of nursing through standardized terminology and clinical reasoning.

Our members represent a diverse global community of nurses, educators, researchers, informaticians, nursing leaders and nursing students who share a commitment to strengthening nursing’s knowledge base and ensuring that nursing clinical judgment is visible, evidence-based, and consistently represented across healthcare systems.

Membership in INKA reflects a shared professional purpose: supporting the development and use of standardized nursing language to improve communication, research, education, and patient care worldwide, and to inform health care policy.

A Truly International Association

Nursing is a global profession, and nursing knowledge must be applicable across languages, cultures, and care environments. INKA’s work is strengthened by the international perspectives and expertise of its members.

Global membership ensures that nursing diagnoses and related classification frameworks remain:

Clinically relevant across diverse healthcare settings
Informed by international practice and scholarship
Responsive to cultural and population-specific health needs
Supported by broad research and educational leadership
Consistent for use in digital health systems and informatics standards

INKA members contribute to the continued refinement and dissemination of nursing knowledge through practice, scholarship, classification development, teaching, publication, informatics, and clinical implementation leadership.

Member Representation Around the World

INKA members live and work in countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas. This international presence reflects the Association’s long-standing commitment to global nursing knowledge development and collaboration.

Countries Where INKA Members Reside

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA

Regional Membership Snapshot

Latin America & the Caribbean – 39.04%
Europe – 32.88%
Northern Americas – 20.55%
Asia – 2.74%
Africa – 1.14%
Middle East – 0.91%
Oceania – 0.23%

Membership distribution data is updated periodically to reflect INKA’s evolving international community.

More Than Membership, A Professional Network

INKA membership represents more than geographic distribution. It is an active professional network shaping the future of nursing knowledge through:

Diagnosis and classification development
Education and curriculum integration
Nursing informatics and electronic health record (EHR) implementation
Research and publication
Policy and professional standards engagement

Members contribute to INKA’s mission through committees, task forces, global network groups, conferences, and collaborative initiatives.

Join the INKA Community

Whether you are a practicing nurse, educator, researcher, informatics leader, policy maker, or student, INKA membership connects you to a global community committed to advancing nursing knowledge through standardized nursing classifications and assessment-driven, diagnosis-centered clinical reasoning.

Join INKA