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Home care nursing is a nursing specialty in which nurses provide multidimensional home care services to patients of all ages. Home care nursing is a cost efficient way to deliver quality care in the convenience of the client's home. Home care nurses create care plans to achieve goals based on the client's diagnosis. These plans can include preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative actions. Home care nurses also supervise certified nursing assistants. The professional nursing organization for home health nurses is providing these services to the required people by arranging home care nurses. Home care nursing is intended for clients that are well enough to be discharged home, but still require skilled nursing personnel to assess, initiate and oversee nursing interventions. The main aim of this paper is to analyses the earlier literature on homecare nursing with reference to various articles, papers and books of different authors. In this regard, after analyzing 48 articles, it was found that nursing practice in Home care nursing is complex, employing a multitude of actions by using three technologies: soft; soft-hard especially; and hard. Challenges related to the home-care training process are reported in the literature. Nurses use knowledge from their experience and scientific recommendations in conjunction with their reflections on the practice. Home nursing practice is fundamental and widespread. Relational and educational actions stand out as necessary even in technical care, with a predominant need for home-care training.