New report: High and rising rates of workplace violence and employer failure to implement effective prevention strategies is contributing to the staffing crisis
NNU's survey results reveal majority of nurses have experienced workplace violence, with nearly half seeing a rise in rates in the past year.
Urge the CDC to listen to frontline health care workers and patients!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tasked its advisory committee to update infection control guidance for health care settings. Take action now to help ensure CDC and HICPAC protect health care workers and patients from infectious diseases.
Measles: What nurses need to know
Globally, measles cases rose 30-fold in 2023 compared to 2022. Despite its elimination in the United States in 2000, there remains a serious risk of outbreaks. Learn about protections nurses and other health care workers need to care for a patient with suspected or confirmed measles.
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Organize with National Nurses United to improve workplace standards through collective bargaining, reform national health care legislation, and make a difference for you and your patients.
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Join our fight for safe staffing
Safe staffing ratios protect our patients from complications that arise from missed care such as medical errors, health care disparities, infections, and so much more.
We can organize and win — anywhere
Hear from nurses in Maine, North Carolina, and North Dakota on how and why they organized their hospitals.
National Nurse Magazine
Advocacy in Action: NNU nurses educate, agitate, organize, and win
New Orleans nurses make history by unionizing
University Medical Center RNs join NNOC
U.S. Senate holds first-ever hearing on ratios
NNU and NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN testifies
Illinois nurses fight for state safe staffing law
Nurses speak out for enforceable RN-to-patient ratios
CE classes
As an NNU member, you have access to our diverse calendar of online and in-person continuing education classes. Check out our full course calendar.
Join the Nurse Advocacy Network
Join our activist network of nurses, other health care workers, patients, and community supporters who mobilize for patient care protections and health care justice.
Join the Retiree Division
Join the Retiree Division and our campaign to: advocate for national legislation for RN staffing ratios and health care and safety reforms; block hospital industry efforts to undermine RN professional practice; organize new members at non-union hospitals; and inspire the next generation of RN activists.
Scholarships
CNA/NNOC offers scholarship awards to members who are enrolled in formal education programs or attending educational conferences, as well as for students enrolled in an Associate Degree Nursing program (or equivalent). Applications open April 1, 2024.