Get Involved
As a member of CNA/NNU, there are many exciting opportunities for involvement at the facility level as a member of your nurse negotiating team, in the legislative process as a local spokesperson, in your community as an educator and public speaker, and throughout the nation with our disaster relief efforts and campaign for universal healthcare reform based on a single standard of care for all.
Organize Your Facility
Organizing your facility is the cornerstone of RN power. A good step is to form a patient advocacy committee.
Learn more about how to organize your facility here.
Stay Informed
Sign up for Email Alerts
Stay informed of the latest developments affecting RN practice and patient care and how and when to respond. Our e-alerts were critical in mobilizing thousands of RNs to save California’s safe staffing ratios when Governor Schwarzenegger and the hospital industry attempted to roll back the historic law. Nurses marched and rallied throughout the state in protest and, after a year of demonstrations often at a moment’s notice, the governor dropped his fight.
Sign up for email alerts here.
CE Courses
Attend one of CNA/NNU’s innovative CE class series taught by our nursing practice and education and research departments, offered in cities throughout the country.
Course topics have included:
- Strategies to Secure Safe Staffing Standards and RN Patient Advocacy Rights
- The Impacts of New Technologies in the RN Workplace on Nursing Practice
- Computerized Charting Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues
- Forces of Magnetism: Their Impact on RN Autonomy, Independent Judgment, and Advocacy
For more information on CE Classes, click here.
Volunteer, Donate to CNA/NNU’s RN Relief Network (RNRN)
After Hurricane Katrina, CNA/NNU was among the first organizations to take action to cut through the inertia and red tape of government and private relief agencies to send over 300 RNs to staff 25 facilities in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi disaster zones.
CNA/NNU established the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) in response to the massive showing of RNs wanting to volunteer their help. RNRN now has a national roster of over 14,000 RNs ready to volunteer when disaster strikes again.
Influence Public Opinion in Your Community
Write a Letter to the Editor
For the ninth consecutive year, nurses head the Gallup annual poll as the most honest and ethical profession. The latest poll results found that 84 percent of Americans viewed nurses’ ethics as “very high” or “high.” In contrast to the poll’s high ranking of nurses is the dismal showing for HMO managers, whose overall ranking was third from the bottom, above only car salesmen and members of congress.
Letters to the editor are among the best-read sections of any newspaper. Letters are a short, effective way for you to directly reach the public. The voices of nurses are especially important and we provide you with all the tools you need.
Click here for more help on writing a letter to the editor.
