Situation: The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created crisis level shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other essential supplies. Across the country many healthcare institutions are disciplining nurses for speaking …
Category: Issues

State reps send support for Youngstown nurses
Ohio Representatives Boccieri, Lapore-Hagan and Holmes sent letters in support of members of the Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association (YGDNA) to the leaders of Northside Regional Medical Center and Steward …

Trap Doors: Entrances to Secret Places
by: Michelle McHugh Slater DNP, RN, CNOR In 2012, then Ohio Governor John R. Kasich formed the Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force to coordinate state efforts to combat …

Action Needed: Tell Legislators We Must Protect Our Title of “Nurse”
House Bill 501 aims to change Vet Tech to Vet Nurse. Tell legislators this is unacceptable – we must protect our title. ONA provided comment and gave opponent testimony yesterday …

ONA Stands with Nurse Wubbels
The Ohio Nurses Association Stands with Nurse Wubbels The voice of Ohio’s nurses calls arrest, abuse unacceptable COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Nurses Association is horrified to learn that Utah …
ONA Sends Letter to Governor Asking for Medicaid Freeze Veto
June 28, 2017 The Honorable John Kasich Riffe Center, 30th Floor 77 South High Street Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117 RE: HB 49, Medicaid Expansion Freeze Dear Governor Kasich: …

The role of the Nurse in preventing opioid abuse
Guest Post By David Griffiths, Nurses Service Organization – a benefit partner of the Ohio Nurses Association Overdose deaths related to prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers …