Campaigns

NYSNA nurses are involved in local, state and national campaigns to improve healthcare, our professional practice, the lives of our patients, and our communities. 

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Our campaigns are powered by frontline nurses. Here are tools for you to get informed and make a difference. When nurses speak, the public, press, and lawmakers listen. When we speak with one voice, we can make the changes that our patients need.

Northwell LIJ Valley Stream Nurses Rally for Safe Staffing

Safe Staffing

Safe, quality care depends on enough nurses and frontline caregivers to do the job. That’s why NYSNA fights for safe staffing on every unit in every healthcare facility in the state.
Nurses hold signs that say Quality Health Care For All New Yorkers

Healthcare for All

NYSNA's mission is to care for all New Yorkers. We believe that healthcare is a right — and that everyone should have access to care based on need, not the ability to pay for it.
nurses stand in front of building holding "Stop the Cuts" and "Save Burdett Birth Center" signs

Save Healthcare Services

Nurses are fighting to stop employers from cutting essential healthcare services in their communities.
H+H Bellevue Budget Speak-Out 2020-09-15

Defend Public Hospitals

New York state’s public hospitals care for all New Yorkers, and they are the frontline of our defense against infectious diseases, like COVID-19. It’s RNs mission to take care of all patients.
Pres Hagans at Budget Lobby Day 2023

Political Action

NYSNA advocates for laws that set safe staffing standards, protect nurses and our patients, and guarantee healthcare for all. The future of New York healthcare is at stake.

Strong RN Standards

In facilities across New York State, NYSNA members have come together and won contracts that set safe staffing ratios, quality care conditions, and professional pay and benefits.

Nurses Celebrate Community at the PR Parade in NYC

Health Equity and Social Justice

Nurses’ advocacy for our profession, patients, and communities are interconnected. NYNSA members advocate for social, racial and economic justice because these struggles are inseparable from our fight for quality care for all patients. When union nurses come together, we can use our skills, our voices and our power to address the root causes of the problems our communities face.
Nurses in Solidarity with WGA / SAG-Aftra at a Strike Picket in August 2023

Union Solidarity

NYSNA nurses recognize we are part of the wider labor movement and mobilize in solidarity with workers across industries fighting for their rights and dignity at work.

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Make Your Voice Heard Against the DOE Proposed Rule to Limit Loans for Grad Nurses

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In November, nurses around the country felt a gut-punch when the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) proposed new federal loan rules that would remove nursing from “professional degree” loan programs. Master of Science, nurse practitioner, certified registered nurse anesthetist, midwifery and other graduate degree programs would not be in the $200,000 cap “professional” category and would instead be capped at the generic graduate school level of $100,000. This change would put advanced degrees for nurses further out of financial reach.

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Nurses know that safe staffing saves lives! That's why we won't stop until we win safe staffing in every unit, in every hospital throughout the state.
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