California Nurses Association
CE Class: What Registered Nurses Need to Know in California
This two-part, in-person CE class provides a nursing practice regulatory review to guide your practice and examines the effects of technology-driven patient care on professional RN practice and safe staffing standards.
San Pedro nurses ratify a new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and staff retention
In a resounding victory for patient care, nurses at Providence Little Company Mary Medical Center in San Pedro, Calif., have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year union contract with hospital management.
CNA/NNOC statement on the crisis in the Middle East
As nurses, our patients trust us to help and heal them when they sustain harm due to the conditions in their everyday lives. To honor that sacred trust, it is our duty to speak up for every human being’s right to a life free from violence and the traumas of war.
Press releases
Organize with the California Nurses Association to improve workplace standards through collective bargaining, reform national health care legislation, and make a difference for you and your patients.
Videos
2023 California Nurses Association lobby day
Hundreds of registered nurses rallied and marched in Sacramento, Calif. before meeting with legislators about nurses’ key issues and priority legislation.
National Nurse Magazine
By the Numbers: New York City nurses win unprecedented contract enforcement of safe staffing standards
Concord behavioral health RNs strike for first time
Registered nurses at John Muir Behavioral Health Center in Concord, Calif. are seeking a fair first contract.
RNs commemorate Nurses Week in Capitol Hill lobbying blitz
Hundreds of RNs from across the country paid online lobbying visits in Washington, D.C. urging their legislators to confront the staffing crisis in hospitals across the country.
The Heat is On
Temperatures are rising up across the country — and so are U.S. union nurses.
Campaigns
California Safe Staffing Ratios
A.B. 394, the CNA-sponsored safe staffing law, has multiple provisions designed to remedy unsafe staffing in acute-care facilities. California’s safe staffing standards are based on individual patient acuity, of which the RN ratios is the minimum.
CalCare
The California Nurses Association is proud to sponsor Assembly Bill 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), which would guarantee comprehensive, high-quality health care to all California residents as a human right.
Supported California Legislation
CNA is committed to building a broad movement for transformative social change and confronting the powerful interests that dominate our economic and political system. Learn more about our supported and sponsored California legislation.
About CNA
Founded in 1903, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/AFL-CIO is a premiere organization of registered nurses and one of the nation’s fastest growing labor and professional organizations in the U.S. with more than 100,000 members in hospitals, clinics, and home health agencies in all 50 states.
CHEU
The Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union is an independent union formed in 2001 by hospital employees to win strong union representation, better benefits, and improved conditions for employees and patients. It is an affiliate of CNA.
