The RN Alternative Is NNOC/CNA - The National RN Union
NNOC/CNA was founded by the California Nurses Association to respond to the growing call of direct-care RNs throughout the U.S. for a stronger voice for patient advocacy that promotes the interest of nurses, patients, and the nursing profession. Today, NNOC/CNA, governed by a 35-member Board of Directors, all of them direct-care RNs elected by their colleagues, is the nation’s largest and fastest growing RN union and professional association. www.nnoc.net / info@nnoc.net / 800-540-3603
NNOC/CNA - A National Model of Success
RNs from California to Illinois to Maine have seen an organization that gets results, and they want to join. NNOC/CNA now has 80,000 RN members in all 50 states, including nurses at major hospitals in Pennsylvania and Nevada who have recently voted to affiliate. The reason for our growth — an unequaled record of success for RNs at the bedside, in the legislative and regulatory arena:
- The best RN compensation packages in the nation; five of the top six highest-paid regions for RNs in the U.S. are in areas dominated by NNOC/CNA contracts.
- Clinical protections at the bedside, including minimum RN staffing ratios, restrictions on unsafe floating, lift teams to reduce RN back injuries and patient falls, and assurances that new technology will not displace RNs or RN professional judgment.
- New post-retirement medical 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.
- Laws and regulations to protect RNs who expose unsafe conditions, RN patient advocacy rights, and RN scope of practice.
A Growing National RN Movement
From coast to coast, direct-care RNs are speaking out about unsafe patient care conditions, inadequate economic standards, and dismal retirement security.
We are working together to build a powerful movement for our patients, our professional practice, our colleagues, our communities, and ourselves.
Thousands of RNs have found a voice and a home with the National Nurses Organizing Committee, founded by the California Nurses Association in 2004.
We have a common purpose, a common vision, a common dream:
- Passing mandated, minimum RN-to-patient ratios in every state, based on the successful California law.
- Reversing demands by hospitals to reduce RN wages and benefits — and winning real gains to secure the compensation and healthcare coverage we have earned.
- Assuring that every RN can retire with dignity with a guaranteed pension and full healthcare coverage.
- Stopping the erosion of RN scope of practice by the healthcare industry and its allies.
- Guaranteed healthcare for all Americans.
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NNOC/CNA Membership Grows
by 400% in Past Decade
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NNOC/CNA Average RN Wage Increases
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RN Ratios — the Only Effective
Solution for Safe Staffing
Minimum guaranteed RN-to-patient ratios, sponsored and defended by NNOC/CNA, are the law in California. Ratios are improving conditions for patients and nurses, and dramatically helping to reduce the nursing shortage. Since the law was signed, 86,000 more licensed RNs have come into the RN workforce in California. NNOC/CNA has sponsored similar proposed bills in Arizona, Illinois, Maine, and Texas, and is working with the Massachusetts Nurses Association on a proposed ratio law in their state.
"Finally we have the time to do proper nursing care and fully evaluate each patient’s needs."
—Kathy Dennis, RN, Sacramento, California
"Minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care."
—Mary Tatum, RN, Cleveland, Ohio
"To have it mandated is just the safest way because then [the hospitals] have no choice."
—Lynn Rox, RN, Brownsville, Texas
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