Membership

Join ONA

Welcome to ONA. ONA is a powerful union of nurses and health professionals that has been making an impact in Ohio for more than 120 years. By joining ONA, you have a voice in strengthening your profession through our advocacy with the state of Ohio Legislature and the Ohio Governor’s office as well as working with other members to focus on challenges such as workplace violence, safe staffing, and other pressing issues threatening your well-being and the health and safety of your patients.

ONA is proud to provide four types of membership

Standard Membership

This membership is for members who are part of an ONA union hospital or facility.

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Associate Membership

This membership is for members who are nurses or health professionals not in a union hospital or facility.

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Retiree Membership

This membership is for retired union members.

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Student membership

This affordable membership is for students enrolled in college to become RNs.

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We are Stronger Together

Unions are about workers coming together to have more power on the job. When we join together, we gain a meaningful voice to be able to improve the lives of ourselves, our patients, and our families. Without the collective support and strength that being active in a union provides, we are left on our own to fend for ourselves at-the-will of the boss. Additionally, when we join together as a union, we gain certain legal protections and security on the job, including the right to bargain over anything having to do with our pay, hours, and working conditions.

Why the Ohio Nurses Association (ONA)?

By uniting with the thousands of nurses and healthcare professionals across Ohio, we not only impact our direct working conditions, but we’re able to advance healthcare standards across the state. As an organization created by and comprised of healthcare professionals, we continue to build on our history of consistently advocating for the advancement of our careers so that we can continue doing what we do best: caring for our patients.