Nurse Advocacy Network
The Nurse Advocacy Network is a network of nurses, other health care workers, patients, and community supporters who mobilize for patient care protections and health care justice. We work to hold our elected officials, health care employers, and other decision-makers accountable for the health and safety of our communities. We know that our ability to come together and take action gives us the power we need to win!
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Join our growing community of activists! No experience necessary – we will provide you with the training, tools, and resources to help you be successful.
Frequently asked questions
Interested in volunteering but want to know more? Read our answers for some of the most frequently asked questions about the Nurse Advocacy Network.
Tell Congress: Support safe staffing for RNs!
Proposed legislation would set specific safety limits on the numbers of patients each registered nurse can care for at any one time. It's important that we generate as much support as we can from our lawmakers now.
Tell Congress: Prevent workplace violence against health care workers!
We need your help to pass legislation that would strengthen protections for health care workers in their workplaces. Take action by sending a letter to your members of Congress today.
Tell OSHA: We need strong, science-based national infectious diseases standards!
Sign the petition to advocate for strong, science-based national infectious diseases standards for health care workers and patients!
Safe Staffing Ratios
Registered nurses across the United States understand the need to set a minimum number of nurses to safely care for a given number of patients, with adjustments to increase nurse staffing based on patient acuity.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Violence against nurses and other health care workers in hospitals and other health care facilities is a growing epidemic across the United States. Learn more about NNU's national campaign to prevent workplace violence.
Health and Safety
NNU advocates for nurses’ right to a safe workplace. Nurses can face many causes of injuries and illnesses in the workplace when their employers neglect their health and safety, which puts their patients at risk, too. When nurses are safe, patients are safe.
Medicare for All
Medicare for All would expand the cost-effective and efficient Medicare program to finance comprehensive, high-quality health care for everybody in the United States. Most importantly, it would provide health care based on patient need, not on profit.
Artificial Intelligence in Nursing
A.I. is rapidly expanding in all workplaces, and hospitals are no exception. Without our collective action, A.I.’s expansion will accelerate the hospital industry’s race to the bottom and drastically limit nurses’ ability to provide quality care.
Gig Nursing
Health care investors and employers want to eliminate nurses’ rights and benefits by pushing nurses toward gig work and misclassifying us as independent contractors.
Home All Alone
The hospital industry peddling programs to treat acute-care patients in their homes. As care is taken out of the hospitals, industry players will close hospitals to increase profits and leave more and more communities without full-service acute care hospitals.
Social Justice and Equity
National Nurses United’s Social Justice and Equity division works to build and deploy nurses’ collective power toward the transformation of systems, institutions, policies, and practices that perpetuate social, health, and workplace inequity and injustice.