When health care professionals don't have a union and a union contract, a hospital administration can dictate all the conditions under which the employees work. 

Rules can be changed without notice, paid time taken away, and floating increased. This impacts on us as employees. However, this also has a profound - and negative - impact on patient care. 

When a nurse is floated into an unfamiliar unit with little or no orientation, when an exhausted nurse is forced to take care of far too many patients, when nurses are driven out of the profession because of declining conditions, the quality of patient care is affected.

HPAE is committed to the organization of all professional health care employees. In today’s health care environment HPAE believes that all employees must protect themselves and their patients. We believe that the only way to effectively do that is by organizing into a union that bargains for rights and protections in a legally binding contract.