Unionizing Nursing: Structural Empowerment and Workforce Stability in Healthcare

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Across
  1. 2. Process of negotiating wages and working conditions
  2. 3. Amount of tasks and responsibilities assigned to nurses
  3. 4. Providing nurses with control and decision-making ability
  4. 6. Legal and ethical entitlements of workers
  5. 9. The act of forming or joining a labor group for protection
  6. 12. Independence in clinical decision-making
  7. 14. Ability to keep nurses employed long-term
  8. 15. Rate at which nurses leave a workplace
  9. 17. Guiding and influencing healthcare teams
  10. 18. Working together across healthcare disciplines
Down
  1. 1. Number of nurses assigned to patient care
  2. 2. Emotional and physical exhaustion from workplace stress
  3. 5. Having a voice through elected union officials
  4. 7. Organization that represents nurses in collective workplace matters
  5. 8. Formal agreement between nurses and employers
  6. 10. Protection of patients and healthcare workers from harm
  7. 11. Fair treatment and access to resources in the workplace
  8. 13. Work stoppage used to demand better conditions
  9. 16. Nurse-to-patient assignments that impact safety
  10. 19. Supporting and promoting nurses’ rights and patient care