Background on Workplace Advocacy Initiatives at the National Level

Alabama Nurse,  Sep-Nov 2003  

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* to conduct, evaluate and support research.

The Center for American Nurses will have three membership categories

1. Full members (two votes in Governing Council)

* Those state nurses associations with at least 90% of their members exclusively using workplace advocacy strategies.

* A separate structure within a state nurses association which provides workplace advocacy strategies to at least 50% of the total CMA membership who are not represented by nursing collective bargaining.

2. Affiliate members (one vote on issues in Governing Council)

* A separate structure within a state nurses association which provides workplace advocacy strategies to less than 50% of the total CMA membership who are not represented by collective bargaining.

* Specialty nursing organizations

* Health care associations

3. Associate member (voice, but no vote in Governing Council)

* An individual member of a state nurses association who is not represented by collective bargaining and is eligible for membership in CAN, but the CMA has not declared its membership.

* An individual member of a state nurses association who is not represented by collective bargaining, but whose state primary strategy is collective bargaining.

* An individual who is not a member of a state nurses assodation and is not represented by collective bargaining.

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