State RNs Need a More Effective Voice
Patients in the state prison system, state hospitals, and in the youth authority need the uncompromised voice of registered nurses to assure they have access to safe, therapeutic and effective care at all times. State RNs deserve the strong support of a powerful RN organization — the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee — to more effectively advocate for your patients, protect your practice, and improve your conditions.
State RNs Need a More Effective Voice
Patients in the state prison system, state hospitals, and in the youth authority need the uncompromised voice of registered nurses to assure they have access to safe, therapeutic and effective care at all times. State RNs deserve the strong support of a powerful RN organization — the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee — to more effectively advocate for your patients, protect your practice, and improve your conditions.
Patient Advocacy for Correctional Nurses
The ability of correctional RNs to advocate for their inmate patients is severely compromised by conflicting priorities in the prison system, the fragmentation of delivery of care, and managers who can override the independent judgment of correctional RNs.
CNA/NNOC represents correctional RNs in California counties and Cook County, IL and has established a Statewide Correctional Nurses Advocacy Group which is promoting enhanced RN practice in correctional health services, legislative and regulatory reforms, correctional nursing curriculum, public education about the role of correctional RNs, and collective bargaining gains.
Public Health — A Fight We Dare Not Lose
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his legislative allies have put our public health facilities and programs at risk with annual proposals for draconian budget cuts that undermine access to care and the delivery of services to many of California’s most fragile patients and residents. Part of that attack is constant devaluation of the work you do, and erosion of the compensation you have earned and the benefits you and your family need. CNA/NNOC has gained international renown for our bold — and successful — challenges to Schwarzenegger when he tried to roll back California’s landmark law, establishing RN hospital staffing ratios, sponsored by CNA/NNOC, and pushed a flawed insurance-based health reform plan.
A May Field Institute poll documented that CNA had the highest favorable rating of all the groups, politicians, and institutions engaged in the healthcare debate. Our campaigns were twice a leading factor in Schwarzenegger’s decline in popularity. Don’t you belong on our team?
SEIU’s Attack on Public Health and You
SEIU has attacked CNA/NNOC for “developing policies” like a “government-run healthcare system.” If you work at a correctional facility; in a state hospital, correctional, psychiatric, or vocational institution; the youth authority; or a veterans’ home, don’t you provide “government” healthcare? Is that SEIU’s regard for the care you deliver? CNA/NNOC proudly sponsors and is a national leader in the campaign for guaranteed healthcare, best achieved through an improved and expanded Medicare-for-all. This single-payer reform is exemplified by HR 676 in Congress and SB 840 in California.
The CNA/NNOC Alternative
With our unparalleled track record, thousands of RNs are joining CNA/NNOC, now the nation’s largest and fastest-growing RN organization. Why?
- Ratios. Sponsored and fought to defend the nation’s first RN ratio law in California. The ratios are improving patient care in California — and helping bring nurses back to the bedside. Since the law was signed, 86,000 more licensed RNs have joined the state’s workforce.
- The Nation’s Best RN Contracts. Won the highest RN salaries, retiree healthcare coverage, expansion of guaranteed pension benefits, and protection of existing healthcare benefits at a time when many RNs face the loss or reduction of healthcare and retirement benefits.
- Clinical protections. Secured RN ratios enforced by contract law, lift teams to reduce RN back injuries and patient falls, restrictions on unsafe floating, and assurances that new technology won’t displace RNs or RN professional judgment.
