Is there a nurses' organization that includes all nurses?

There is an affiliate the "Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union" (CHEU).

I've had lunch with some at a hospital where I worked registry a few years ago. An RN sheepishly told me the real leaders regarding the claning of units and rooms, meal and break relief, and other patient care issues are LVNs, care partners (CNA's), housekeepers, and respiratory therapists.

http://www.calnurses.org/cheu/

I don't think they will organize where the LVNs are already in a union.

A Supreme Court decision determined that registerd nurses can be a bargaining unit.

A nurses only unit of RNs and LVN/LPNs is not allowed.

Our lVNs are in a different union. We work well together. But our union is stronger on patient care. The other union does protect nurses who speak out. They use our forms to notify management of unsafe assignments. Gnerally all nurses and nursing employees sign it togther, secretaries, CNSs, LVNs and RNs including th charg nurse.

Many of us have been friends for decades. Since I was an LVN.

[color=#36322a]hospital employees[color=#36322a]. the labor board divides hospitals into 8 bargaining units:

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]staff medical doctors

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]registered nurses

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]other professionals - including: medical technologists (also called cls), pharmacists, social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and registered dieticians.

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]technical employees have some (usually 2 years) technical training and a license or certification - including respiratory therapists, licensed practical nurses (also called licensed vocational nurse), pharmacy techs, radiology techs, lab techs, emergency medical technicians, certified operating room techs, profusionists, or/surgery techs, licensed occupational and physical therapy assistants, dietary techs, and histology techs.

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]service and maintenance - a catch-all group with on-the-job training or maybe a certification requiring short training courses - including: nursing assistants, unit clerks (also called unit coordinators), unit or department secretaries, admitting clerks, housekeeping, kitchen/dietary workers, central supply clerks, stockers, transport, linen, lab assistants, and phlebotomists.

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]skilled maintenance - tradespeople who do general plant maintenance.

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]business office clericals - work away from patient care areas and have little contact with patients - including medical records clerks, transcriptionists, and billing clerks.

[color=#36322a]- [color=#36322a]guards

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