[CintiRN]

Originally Posted by RN Power Ohio

The mission of NNOC in Ohio and every state is as follows:

The National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) is a new national union and professional organization for Registered Nurses, Advance Practice Nurses, and RN organizations throughout the country who want to pursue a more powerful agenda of patient advocacy that promotes the interests of patients, direct care nurses, and RN professional practice. NNOC was founded by the California Nurses Association in the spring of 2004 with the support of a growing number of nurse organizations that are seeking more effective representation and wish to join the movement being led by CNA. Through the NNOC, RN organizations and non-organized RNs around the country are able to work together to achieve dramatic progress for direct care nurses and patients in their facilities, their communities, their states and at the national level.

Also- please see my earlier posts with facts about HB 346- it is the same law that has failed in Tx, Ca, MA and is having trouble being implemented in Oregon. Read the all telling fiscal analysis- link above.

Thank you for sharing the vision/mission statement. This does not include the personal motive or agenda of NNOC. If you truely wish to better patient outcomes and support the bed side nurse, all nurses, why would you spring off another orgainization to facilitate seperatism? Why would you not seek to join the exsisting orgainizions to support and further nursings voice as one? I have a vested interest in Ohio because I live and work here. I am a bedside nurse in a collective bargaining unit and belong to other professional organizations. THese orgainizations speak for nursing as one voice. Doctors work together and accomplish much. We seem to continue to struggle amoung ourselves and get nowhere.

[RN Power Ohio]

Originally Posted by CintiRN

Thank you for sharing the vision/mission statement. This does not include the personal motive or agenda of NNOC. If you truely wish to better patient outcomes and support the bed side nurse, all nurses, why would you spring off another orgainization to facilitate seperatism? Why would you not seek to join the exsisting orgainizions to support and further nursings voice as one? I have a vested interest in Ohio because I live and work here. I am a bedside nurse in a collective bargaining unit and belong to other professional organizations. THese orgainizations speak for nursing as one voice. Doctors work together and accomplish much. We seem to continue to struggle amoung ourselves and get nowhere.

I live and work in Ohio too. NNOC leaders and members in Ohio -live and work in Ohio. I have a vested interest as well. I have been a member of the "existing organization" and did not feel they represented my concerns as a direct care nurse nor did I feel they were effective patient advocates. In addition, I find the tactics of that organization to be more in favor of the hospital than either nurses or patients. Are you aware that there are MANY organizations that represent nurses in Ohio? Is anyone critical of SEIU nurses, AFSCME nurses UAW nurses? They do not believe that the Ohio organization is right for them either. In fact, it is safe to say that the majority of Ohio and US nurses do not agree with "the state and national nursing organizations". NNOC members here are not the only ones who feel the way I do about "the Ohio Organization". Frankly, I feel there was not a fitting organization for me in Ohio until NNOC.

If you read the comments from an ONA nurse earlier in this forum you can see that our opinions on advocacy and action vary greatly. Altec RN states she is not opposed to ratio legislation and is fighting for HB 346 because it is a "baby step". I do not believe we as nurses should be clouding the issues with the public and legislators by suggesting half-measures be implemented -if one can even call HB 346 a half measure- as it merely attempts to codify the status-quo. It is an injustice to our patients to provide them with yet another false reassurance (like Magnet).

Somehow all the voices I hear from organizations echo in favor of the hospital and nursing executives with the exception of NNOC Ohio.

[Nurseslight]

"Why would you not seek to join the exsisting orgainizions to support and further nursings voice as one"?

We are direct care nurses in Ohio who are joining together because we are tired of the far too moderate approach to this crisis. We have decided to join forces with more like minded nurses who are working on a more aggressive approach, the NNOC.
Unsafe staffing is the number one reason nurses are leaving the profession. We need a limit to the number of patients a nurse can be assigned. Our patients need it too. The other organizations just don't seem to get it!

[Julia RN]

Originally Posted by CintiRN

Thank you for sharing the vision/mission statement. This does not include the personal motive or agenda of NNOC. If you truely wish to better patient outcomes and support the bed side nurse, all nurses, why would you spring off another orgainization to facilitate seperatism? Why would you not seek to join the exsisting orgainizions to support and further nursings voice as one? I have a vested interest in Ohio because I live and work here. I am a bedside nurse in a collective bargaining unit and belong to other professional organizations. THese orgainizations speak for nursing as one voice. Doctors work together and accomplish much. We seem to continue to struggle amoung ourselves and get nowhere.

CintiRN-
I'm a little confused by your comments concerning "seperatism" and the importance of speaking with one voice.

ONA recently disaffiliated from its national union, the UAN, along with three other states. This has created more division among nurses nationally.

NOCC joined the AFL-CIO in 2007. The UAN, as well as other unions which represent nurses in Ohio, are members of the AFL-CIO. They coordinate many actions, including lobbying for federal staffing legislation (H.R. 2123), through "RNs Working Together", a structure of the AFL. The UAN has also partnered with the SEIU in this campaign for H.R. 2123 which would establish national minimum staffing ratios that are adjustable for acuity and other factors.

Hundreds of thousands of nurses are united nationally through these organizations to speak with one voice on issues affecting nursing and healthcare. This was an unprecedented opportunity to experience the power of collective action on a national level. If the states that left the UAN felt changes were needed, they would have the opportunity to do this in March at the national assembly. They had the numbers to make it happen. Instead, we are further fragmented.