Vision & Mission: The Guide for Our Work
Vision
The Ohio Nurses Association is the recognized leader and advocate for professional nurses and nursing in Ohio.
Mission
To advance professional nursing in Ohio. This will be accomplished through:
Evolving Evidence-Based Practice
Influencing Legislators
Promoting Education
Improving Economic and General Welfare
Advocating for Quality Health Care in a Cost Effective and Economically Stimulating Manner
Core Values
Social Responsibility
ONA functions ethically and contributes to the welfare of the community.
- Diversity: ONA recognizes the distinct qualities of the community.
- Service: ONA maintains an active role in the community.
- Advocacy: ONA pleads the relevant causes of the community.
Collaboration
ONA works jointly with others.
- Teamwork: ONA works as a unit in close association with others.
- Inter-professional/Intra-professional: ONA values the collective intelligence of groups, whether it is within the nursing profession or outside of the nursing profession.
Integrity
ONA practices with integrity in all of its professional relationships.
- Accountability: ONA takes ownership for its judgment and action.
- Stewardship: ONA is actively engaged in the direction of the profession.
- Honesty: ONA is free of deception.
Professionalism
ONA embodies the conduct, aims, and qualities of the profession.
- Life-long learning: ONA is responsible for advancing the profession through knowledge development, dissemination, and application to practice.
- Reasoned discourse: ONA expresses itself with conversation based in logic.
- Diversity: ONA recognizes the distinct qualities of the individual.
- Advocacy: ONA operates on the belief that the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community.