ANF Student Membership

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Just wondering what other people's experience has been if they have joined the ANF as a student member via their $30 per year membership, and then not wanted to continue with the membership once they have graduated?

My experience at this stage is that I have been sent text messages telling me that they are upgrading my membership to a Div 1. After emailing them to tell them I dont wish to become a full (ie. not just student) member, they advise they are not willing to accept an email resignation, and are insisting on a written resignation, including reasons.

Anyone else had any experience with this? A simple $30 a year is turning into a bit of a nightmare and I am starting to wish I had never bothered with the student membership.

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Just send an old fashioned one line letter stating your name, anf number and date that you resign. Reason: you don't want to belong to the ANF!! I would consider this though, if you have completed a BN, it dosen't mean that you actually register with a state nursing board and practise nursing, so I would consider their threat that you must belong as a Div 1 because you were with them as a student, just that, a threat that cannot be held in a court of law, what if you have gone into cake decorating or street cleaning, no organisation can make you belong, even a union, thankyou Mr Rudd.

I have no trouble with the ANF, as I forget to pay them monthly and I sometimes get a letter saying I am no longer a member without any letter of resignation. I am in the vic branch. So do not pay them.

I would consider though, if you do work as an RN, think carefully, if you find yourself requiring help for some misdeamenor or employer not paying correct yearly rate or requiring you to do a job you were not employed to do, are you willing to pay out or confront the employer on your own!! Sometimes it is not a collectives problem, its just an individuals, so you may need the ANF one day.

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Specializes in CTICU.

ANF are useless when you need them anyhow - I did once and they were no help. Get your own professional indemnity insurance. Just mail a letter stating that you resign your membership as of xxx date.

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Specializes in Community, Renal, OR.

I'm afraid I agree, I paid out membership for 30 years and I found the ANF of no use when I really needed them.

Just write a letter and resign, save your money.

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Funny you should all agree on this, our ANF rep runs first sign of trouble, says he is too busy to come and he will contact our managment, but we hear nothing.....didn't know that you could buy own indeminity insurance though, too scared to let the membership go.

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Specializes in CTICU.

This is the one affiliated with the RCNA: http://www.guildgroup.com.au/nursesinsurance

Of course, you never know how good they are until you need em!

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thanks, will look into this..:)

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Specializes in Medical.

I admit I'm biased, being a rep, but I'm sorry to see that the ANF has been so unsupportive to my AN colleagues above; part of the reason I became a rep was because of the support colleagues got from the union during a Coronial investigation.

If you want to resign membership I agree with other members: send a letter stating you want to resign effective from that date, and/or notify your bank to stop firect deductions of credit card transfers. If you're not financial you won't be covered and are no longer officially a member.

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ANF are useless when you need them anyhow - I did once and they were no help. Get your own professional indemnity insurance. Just mail a letter stating that you resign your membership as of xxx date.

which indemnity insurer did you choose? I also needed the ANF when i went to a work cover conciliation and the rather fat ANF representative man just sat there i ended up doing all the talking..useless!

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Specializes in Medical.

Is his weight relevant to his usefulness?

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Is his weight relevant to his usefulness?

Obviously this time is was!

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I have joined HACSU instead of ANF, as they seem to be more relevant to my speciality, mental health nursing. The main reason I joined was for professional indemnity coverage, and, less importantly, for somewhere to go for advice/representation if needed.

Interestingly, I am sure I briefly saw a flyer from HACSU the other day saying that under national registration all nurses will require professional indemnity insurance. If this is the case, this would become big business for insurance companies and it would be interesting to get a quote from an insurance company and compare it to the cost of union fees. Anyone heard about this?

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