The Nurse Alliance
Of, By and For Nurses
The Nurse Alliance of SEIU is made up of more than 84,000 registered nurses
in 23 states working together to raise standards for their profession and
patient care. Because the Nurse Alliance of SEIU is part of SEIU – the
nation’s largest health care union – nurses are working with more than 900,000
health care workers to truly change the face of health care.
Nurse Alliance of SEIU contracts are unique because nurses identify the
problems they face in providing quality care and tailor them to meet the needs
of nurses and their patients. Through the national organization, nurses have a
network for sharing information through committees to address the specific
issues we face at work, like the Workplace Quality Committee and the Health and
Safety Committee.
Of, by and for nurses, means that nurses are in charge, nurses make
the decisions, and nurses are working together across the country to reach
out and engage other nurses in their work to improve quality patient care.
SEIU nurses at each health care facility are part of our own local unions and make our own decisions. But we also benefit
from automatically becoming part of the national Nurse Alliance of SEIU, which
helps nurses speak with a strong, united voice in today's rapidly changing
health care industry.
SEIU
nurses all across America have discovered that by working together we can help
create a health care system that brings out the best in everyone.
That's
why we're asking all nurses to become part of SEIU– so our voice can grow
stronger and we can do even more to help people get well.
Together, we
can stand up for a system that gives us the time and encouragement to provide
the kind of professional, quality health care our patients deserve.
With all the changes taking place in health care, nurses need to join together to protect our
patients and our profession.
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"Health care is becoming more of a business every day. That's why we
need to stand together as nurses. We're winning improvements on issues like
staffing so we have more time to take care of each of our patients." --Jenae
Knapp, RN |
| "As members of SEIU, the nurses in our hospital are on a more equal
basis with the administration when it comes to making decisions that affect our
job and the quality of care." --Becky Pottorff-Leaven, RN |
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