Ohio Nurses Association

01/04/2026

🎉 Claim Your 2 FREE CE Courses from ONA! 🩺 We are offering 2 FREE Continuing Education (CE) courses on two of the most pressing challenges nurses face today: safe staffing and workplace violence.

These courses aren’t just about contact hours; they’re about equipping you with the knowledge and tools to protect yourself, support your patients, and strengthen the nursing profession.
Earn 1.0 contact hour per course.

✨ ONA’s 2025 White Paper on Safe Nurse Staffing
Explore national staffing solutions and get an inside look at ONA’s innovative new staffing framework for Ohio.

✨ONA’s 2024 Staffing Survey Results
Find out what thousands of nurses across Ohio are saying, and why your voice is essential in shaping the future of healthcare. 👉 Register now: https://ce.ohnurses.org/workplace-advocacy

The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)

The Cornelius Leadership Conference contains three online, self-paced courses totaling 3.1 Contact Hours. Each course focuses on advocacy strategies to combat moral injury in healthcare.

01/03/2026

🎓🌟 Ready to level up your nursing journey in this new year? The Ohio Nurses Foundation is here to cheer you on! 💙✨ Invest in you by applying for a 2026 ONF Scholarship. Your passion, hard work, and dedication deserve every opportunity to grow. 🌱💫

⏰ Deadline: January 15, 2026
🔗 Apply now: https://ow.ly/orcN50XmMSj
Winners will be honored at the Nurses Choice Awards this spring! 🏆💙

01/02/2026

💙 Record a 60-90 second voice memo highlighting the real experiences of moral injury and workplace violence in healthcare. 🩺🎙️ Share your story with Dr. Wendy Dean & Dr. Matt Ramsey of the 43cc Podcast; your experience can spark awareness and change.

ONA is partnering with Moral Injury of Healthcare to bring light to these horrific experiences of workplace violence and moral injury in healthcare.

Record a 60–90 second voice memo here:
👉 https://www.43ccpodcast.com/contact43cc
💬 Prompt ideas: How did it feel? Did you have support? How has it impacted your career?

WANT TO VENT, RANT,OR ASK A QUESTION? Did one of these episodes get you in the gut? Were you, like one listener, “horrified”, or like another who was “incandescent with rage”? Then, you’re our people, and we want to HEAR IT! Record right here, right now, and we’ll try to get you on the a...

01/01/2026

Happy 2026! Here's to a brand-new year full of new possibilities. Cheers! 🥂 Endless gratitude to the nurses and health professionals working today to care for others. Your dedication does not go unnoticed. 🫶 As we step into the new year, may we continue standing together to advocate for safer workplaces, better staffing, and the respect health professionals deserve. Stronger together, always. 💪🏥

12/31/2025

💪 Start the New Year off strong: Join ONA today! 🤝 https://ohnurses.org/membership/
We can change this narrative together. Speak up, share your story, support your coworkers, and help push hospitals to prioritize staff safety.

🚨 Workplace violence in healthcare is out of control and far too often leaves health professionals with serious, life-altering injuries.

What other employer would allow their staff to be choked, stabbed, targeted with weaponized bodily fluids, or thrown against walls… without consequences⁉ Too many nurses and health professionals suffer fractures, brain injuries, PTSD, and even death.

💬 Social share prompts: “I stand with healthcare workers. ” | “Safe staff = safe patients. Join the movement! ” | “Workplace violence is NOT part of the job. ”

12/30/2025

If your goal in 2026 is to give back more, we’ve got just the thing for you! 💖 Get an Ohio Nurses Foundation “Support Nursing” license plate 🚗 and help fund scholarships for the next generation of nurses. 📚🌟

👉 https://ow.ly/SgQk50QwRHB
Choose Organizational Plates ➡️ Ohio Nurses Association

💌 Questions? mdonovan@ohnurses.org

12/29/2025

🩺 ONA Members: Help Shape Nursing Policy in Ohio The Ohio Board of Nursing is currently accepting applications through January 5, 2026, for several advisory groups.

This is an important opportunity for ONA nurses and health professionals to bring frontline experience into decision-making spaces.

These advisory groups help guide policies and standards that directly affect practice, education, workforce development, and patient care. It is critical that these conversations are led by professionals who understand the realities of bedside care and community health. For more information about the advisory groups, click https://ow.ly/aSGF50XLCoJ

📣 OBN is soliciting applicants for the following Advisory Groups:
🔹 Certified Community Health Workers Advisory Group
🔹 Dialysis Advisory Group
🔹 Nursing Education Advisory Group

➡️ Apply using the General Advisory Group Application
🔹 Doula Advisory Group
➡️ Apply using the Doula Advisory Group Application

📅 Application deadline: January 5, 2026
⏳ Two-year terms begin January 1, 2026
💻 Many meetings are held virtually, increasing accessibility for working professionals
📝 Application must include a current resume with submission

ONA strongly encourages members, especially bedside nurses, educators, and community-based health professionals, to apply. When ONA members serve in advisory roles, policies are stronger, more practical, and more reflective of real-world care.

Let’s make sure nurses and health professionals are not just impacted by policy but helping lead it.

2026 Advisory Group Member Applications

12/27/2025

🌟 Ready to take your nursing dreams to new heights in 2026? The Ohio Nurses Foundation is cheering you on!

This holiday season, invest in you by applying for a 2026 ONF Scholarship. Your passion, hard work, and dedication deserve every opportunity to grow. 🌱💫

⏰ Deadline: January 15, 2026
🔗 Apply now: https://ow.ly/orcN50XmMSj
Winners will be honored at the Nurses Choice Awards this spring! 🏆💙

12/26/2025

🩺 ONA Members: Help Shape Nursing Policy in Ohio 🩺

The Ohio Board of Nursing is currently accepting applications through January 5, 2026, for several advisory groups. This is an important opportunity for ONA nurses and health professionals to bring frontline experience into decision-making spaces.

These advisory groups help guide policies and standards that directly affect practice, education, workforce development, and patient care. It is critical that these conversations are led by professionals who understand the realities of bedside care and community health. For more information about the advisory groups, click https://ow.ly/aSGF50XLCoJ

📣 OBN is soliciting applicants for the following Advisory Groups:
🔹 Certified Community Health Workers Advisory Group
🔹 Dialysis Advisory Group
🔹 Nursing Education Advisory Group

➡️ Apply using the General Advisory Group Application
🔹 Doula Advisory Group
➡️ Apply using the Doula Advisory Group Application

📅 Application deadline: January 5, 2026
⏳ Two-year terms begin January 1, 2026
💻 Many meetings are held virtually, increasing accessibility for working professionals
📝 Application must include a current resume with submission

ONA strongly encourages members, especially bedside nurses, educators, and community-based health professionals, to apply. When ONA members serve in advisory roles, policies are stronger, more practical, and more reflective of real-world care.

Let’s make sure nurses and health professionals are not just impacted by policy but helping lead it.

12/25/2025

🎅❌ Naughty List, Locked In. ❌🎅

Hospital executives will forever stay on the naughty list until they choose what actually matters:
the safety of patients, nurses, and health professionals.

Safe staffing.
Safe workplaces.
Real accountability.

Until then — no excuses, no absolution.

12/25/2025

As the holiday season arrives, we want to speak directly to the nurses and health professionals spending these days away from their families and friends—being present for patients, responding to crises, and providing compassionate care every moment they are needed. We also want to acknowledge the friends and loved ones who sacrifice time together, offer support, and carry extra weight at home so this care can happen. Your dedication, skill, and professionalism do not go unnoticed, and we are deeply grateful.

This year, ONA members stood shoulder to shoulder to fight for safe staffing, confront workplace violence, and defend our hospitals as true sanctuary spaces—places where patients receive care with dignity and without regard to race, religion, immigration status, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other characteristic, and where nurses and health professionals are free from threats, harassment, and violence on the job. Everyone deserves care. Every healthcare worker deserves safety.

As we enter the new year, our commitment is absolute. ONA will stand strong as a union, advocate boldly for nurses and health professionals, and demand accountability from anyone who puts profits, politics, or complacency ahead of patient care and worker safety. We do this not only for nurses and health professionals but also for the patients, families, and communities who depend on safe, accessible, and compassionate care every day.

To all who are working through the holidays—and to those who support them—and to the patients and communities we are honored to serve: thank you. You are seen. You are valued. And you are never alone in this fight.

We will not accept the broken status quo. And to the hospital executives who put patients, nurses, and health professionals in harm’s way: may your stockings be full of coal—and your futures full of enforceable staffing regulations.

Wishing you a safe holiday season and a strong, determined new year.

Rick Lucas, BSN, RN, CCRN, President & Executive Director and Ohio Nurses Association Board of Directors

12/24/2025

💙 During this holiday season, which can be especially difficult for many, we want to pause and remind our health professionals that you are not alone.

In healthcare, you give so much of yourself: long hours, emotional moments, and the weight that isn’t always visible. Stress, exhaustion, and burnout are real, and the holidays can intensify those feelings. But you don’t have to face them alone.

🫂 A small act can make a big difference. A quick message, a genuine check-in, or a simple “I’m here for you” can lift someone’s day more than you know.

📱 Need someone to talk to?
Call or text 988 to reach the Su***de & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7, free, and confidential.

🔗 Looking for more support?
The AFT Trauma Counseling Programs & Services are here to help: aft.org/benefits

💖 Remember: your well-being matters. Caring for yourself is just as important as caring for others.