What Is Collective Bargaining In Nursing

As interest in organizing their efforts grows, nurses must consider unionization and collective bargaining because medical facility structures and governance influence a nurse 's effectiveness with patients and their families. Nurses today tend to report a mixture of experiences in union vs. nonunion nursing situations. (8-ball, 2017). Several factors should be reviewed before deciding whether to work for or against collective bargaining in nursing. Some of those factors are discussed in this paper: the nature of collective bargaining, its advantages and disadvantages, the process of deciding on collective bargaining, integrating collective bargaining into clinical practice and the relevance of collective bargaining for the nursing profession today. I selected this topic because nurses impact every aspect of healthcare, nursing schools have long waiting lists, there is a growing nursing shortage causing heavy workloads and questions about the quality of patient care and collective bargaining has become a significant current issue that every nurse must resolve when deciding where and how to work in the nursing profession. Registered nurses are pursued by competing hospitals and aggressive recruiters and now unions also want their attention, money and loyalty (Montgomery-Woods, 2017).This essay applies only to collective bargaining for nurses in the United States. The merits of collective bargaining for nurses must be weighed carefully to determine its value in promoting