California Nurses Association

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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.

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Nurse Alert: Fraudulent data collection email

We have become aware that some members are receiving messages which falsely purport to be from CNA/NNOC/NNU. Please DO NOT RESPOND to this email solicitation. The contact info submitted in response is neither being requested by nor received by the union.

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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

Registered nurses from San Francisco hospitals will hold a rally and then provide testimony at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing to demand that UCSF Medical Center answer major questions about its plans for maintaining or cutting key services and access to care at two hospitals it has recently acquired.
UC registered nurses from across the state will hold a rally to highlight their ongoing patient safety concerns, including overcrowding in emergency departments, patient privacy violations, and the CDPH's failure to respond appropriately to these concerns with thorough and transparent investigations and reporting.
The bill, sponsored by CNA, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and a diverse coalition of organizations, would also prevent medical debt collectors from sharing medical debt information with credit reporting agencies.
Registered nurses at the Public Health Department in Fresno, Calif. voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new two-year contract today, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.

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

Advocacy in Action: NNU nurses educate, agitate, organize, and win

Hazel Hawkins’ nurses fight to keep hospital open

RNs presented the San Benito County Health Care District a community petition with more than 1,500 signatories supporting their ongoing fight to keep their hospital open.

Unconventional Times

CNA/NNOC celebrated 120 years of advocacy and laid groundwork for decades more.

U.S. Senate holds first-ever hearing on ratios

NNU and NYSNA n President Nancy Hagans, RN, testified in October at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in support of federal legislation supporting mandatory minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.

Campaigns

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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