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A national membership for those who care

Protecting healthcare workers from the abuse no one talks about.

Registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nurse aides are punched, bitten, groped, threatened, and lied about by the very patients, residents, and families they care for — while the facilities that employ them look the other way. We exist to enforce the laws in all 50 states that protect you, and to hold the people who fail you accountable.

Membership dues fund this platform, the resources, and the legal advocacy that enforces your rights.

The Crisis in Numbers

The people who keep us alive are being hurt — and then punished for it.

Across long-term care, hospitals, assisted living, and home health, healthcare workers are assaulted by patients, residents, and visiting family — and too often disciplined, suspended, or fired on the word of a complainant who is neither cognitively impaired nor confused.

5x

Healthcare workers are up to 5× more likely to suffer workplace violence than the average worker.

65%

of nurses report being verbally abused by patients or their families.

1 in 4

nurses meet the criteria for PTSD from repeated patient assaults and threats.

Days–weeks

of work lost to injuries, hearings, and suspensions that follow false patient complaints.

Post-traumatic stress

Repeated assaults leave nurses and aides with hypervigilance, panic, and sleep disruption — diagnosed PTSD that follows them out of the building and home to their families.

Time lost from work

Injury recovery, mandated meetings, and unpaid suspensions drain paychecks while the person who struck or lied about them stays in the bed.

Fired on a lie

Complaints from patients and residents who are not demented and have no altered mental status are still used to terminate caregivers — with no real investigation.

Figures reflect commonly reported findings from U.S. workplace-violence studies, nursing workforce surveys, and OSHA guidance on healthcare settings.

Our Mission

The law is on your side. We make sure it is enforced.

You were told to “just take it” — that being hit, threatened, or lied about is part of the job. It is not. Assault is a crime in every state, and the people who enable it can be held responsible. We are a membership that turns the protection already written into law into real action and real compensation.

Enforce the laws in all 50 states

Every state has statutes and case law that protect healthcare workers from assault, battery, and harassment. We help you find and use them — and the legal muscle to make them stick.

Compensation for what was done to you

Medical bills, lost wages, and the lasting harm of an attack by a patient, resident, or their family or friends. You were the victim of a crime — you deserve to be made whole.

Hold facilities accountable

Owners, administrators, and department heads who ignore abuse, suppress reports, or fire the whistleblower are liable. We document the pattern and name the people who let it happen.

A voice in every setting

Long-term care, hospitals, assisted living, rehabilitation, home health, and clinics — wherever you give care, we stand behind you.

Who This Is For

If you give care, this is your membership.

We unite the people on the floor and at the bedside — across every setting where care is given — so no one faces abuse or a false accusation alone.

Registered Nurse (RN)
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)
Hospitals
Long-term care
Assisted living
Home health
Rehabilitation
Public clinics

Membership

Join the membership that has your back.

Your dues keep this organization alive and the pressure on. There is a small fee because enforcing the law — against people who hurt you and the facilities that let them — costs real money. Every dollar is explained below.

Monthly Membership

$9.99/ month

Flexible support that renews every month. Cancel anytime.

  • A national voice enforcing the laws in all 50 states
  • Resources to document abuse and false complaints the right way
  • A confidential community of nurses and aides to vent, share, and support
  • Advocacy that holds facility owners and department heads accountable
  • Guidance toward the legal action and compensation you are owed
Best Value

Annual Membership

$99/ year

Best value — about two months free, and a stronger commitment to the cause.

  • A national voice enforcing the laws in all 50 states
  • Resources to document abuse and false complaints the right way
  • A confidential community of nurses and aides to vent, share, and support
  • Advocacy that holds facility owners and department heads accountable
  • Guidance toward the legal action and compensation you are owed

Secure checkout is handled by Base44 Payments. You can cancel your membership at any time.

Where Your Dues Go

A fee that exists for one reason: to protect you.

There is no profit motive here. The membership fee is the engine that keeps the website running, the resources current, and — most importantly — the legal enforcement and advocacy that the laws in all 50 states promise on paper but rarely deliver in practice. Without dues, none of it happens. With them, you are never standing alone.

Maintain this platform

Hosting, security, and the tools that connect members across every state and setting.

Build the resources

Document templates, reporting guides, and state-by-state law breakdowns members can actually use.

Fund legal enforcement

Back the legal action and compensation claims that hold abusers and enabling facilities responsible.

Sustain the advocacy

The campaigns and public pressure that keep facility owners and department heads accountable.

Accountability

We don't just protect you. We go after the people who failed you.

The person who hit or lied about you is only the start. The facility that let it happen — and the leadership that punished you instead of investigating — is responsible too. Membership exists to make that responsibility real.

Facility owners

The companies that set the staffing levels and policies that make abuse inevitable — and look away when it happens.

Department heads

Administrators and directors of nursing who bury incident reports, blame the caregiver, and protect the complainant.

The false-complaint pipeline

Terminations built on statements from patients and residents who are not demented and have no altered mental status — and the cover-ups that follow.

Healthcare Worker Advocate

A national membership enforcing the laws in all 50 states that protect registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and certified nurse aides from abuse — and holding the facilities that enable it accountable.

Membership

Healthcare Worker Advocate is an advocacy and resource organization. Information provided here is for education and support and is not legal advice. Laws vary by state; members are guided toward the legal action and compensation available where they live and work.

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