The Missouri Nurses Association is a membership organization that engages in legislative advocacy
The Missouri Nurses Association strives to be one strong voice for Missouri nurses.
02/27/2026
As this article highlights, violence against nurses is a serious issue facing healthcare settings across the state. MONA continues to push for safer workplaces and meaningful policy change so nurses can care without fear. https://ow.ly/bITF50Yn5i1
Missouri’s ability to sustain its nursing workforce depends on whether violence in health care is treated as inevitable — or preventable.
02/26/2026
Across the U.S., nurse practitioners face regulations that limit care and access. A new legal challenge in Missouri could help change that.
Join this webinar to hear from Missouri NP Marcy Markes about her lawsuit challenging restrictive collaborative practice laws—and what it could mean for scope-of-practice reform nationwide.
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Pacific Legal Foundation, the Association of Missouri Nurse Practitioners, and the Missouri Nurses Association invite you to an evening webinar examining how legal action and policy change can achieve meaningful scope-of-practice reform.
02/25/2026
Proud to have the Black Nurses Association of Greater St. Louis represented at Nurse Advocacy Day!
02/25/2026
Nurse Advocacy Day at the Missouri State Capitol - student nurses from University of Missouri-Columbia
02/25/2026
VP of Communications, Heidi Fields announcing MONA’s new Student Nurse Advocacy Scholarship
02/25/2026
02/25/2026
MONA Nurse Advocacy Day is underway!
We’re gathered this morning at Capitol Bluffs Event Center, preparing, learning, and getting ready to head to the Capitol. Missouri nurses are building their advocacy knowledge now — and will soon be meeting with legislators to ensure the nursing voice is heard.
This is The Power of Nurses in action.
02/24/2026
Action Alert! Make Your Voice Heard—We want Nursing to be recognized as a Professional Degree.
The Department of Education is proposing new limits on federal graduate student loans as part of H.R. 1 implementation. These changes could impact nurses pursuing advanced education.
Now is the time to speak up. Public comments become part of the official record and help shape the final rule.
Your voice matters! Use it to protect access to advanced nursing education.
Tell the Department of Education nursing IS a professional degree!
02/24/2026
Ketamine as a Therapeutic Option, AI and Nurse Staffing, Naloxone Training, and Other March Issue Highlights http://ow.ly/Qzf2106uZw8
02/22/2026
Upcoming ANA Webinar February 24: Your Nursing Future, Debt-Free
ANA is partnering with the Health Resources & Services Administration and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association to host a free webinar on February 24 at 12:30 p.m. Central for nurses and nursing students on federal scholarship and loan repayment programs.
This session will provide an overview of the National Health Service Corps and Nurse Corps programs, including eligibility, service commitments, and application preparation tips.
The Missouri Nurse Honor Guard Conference tickets are now available. All nurses are welcome.
We have a group rate hotel room available for those from out of town. Use the link to book the room or call the hotel listed in the link with code MO Honor Guard.
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The following excerpt from an executive summary in the September/October 1996 issue of The Missouri Nurse refects on the early history of MONA:
It was like stepping back in time reading the minutes of the committee planning the first annual meeting of the Missouri Nurses Association. It was to be held in St. Louis in 1906 in the “auditorium of the St. Louis Medical Society…(if it) could be secured…” A two day agenda was planned that included an “automobile ride for visiting delegates complements of Jewish Hospital.”
Our long rich history as advocates for patients and quality nursing care was firmly established in the early beginnings of the Association.
Documentation of meetings in 1908 evidenced the members’ concern about the “conditions and managements of the almshouses in Missouri.” A call for volunteers to investigate the almshouses was made by the Association, thus taking our first official actions in improving the quality of nursing care.
By 1911, “the representative almshouse officials were visited and the reports for the great need for better nursing care was opened for
discussion.” The Executive Board appointed an inspector of the almshouses who would make recommendations to the Governor. They also met with the legislators and began working with the state charities for the improvement of the quality of nursing care.
The following excerpts were from The Missouri Nurse and its predecessor, The Bulletin of the Missouri State Nurses’ Association. Many of these statements are still true today.
“The needs for a larger, stronger organization have never been greater. There are many vexing problems facing us today and they will have to be met by a unified profession and much wisdom. And that means a greater and more interested membership.”
–The Bulletin, March 1945.
“Nurses must be prepared to control their own conditions of work and life. When nurses defend their own interests, patients also gain. Conditions for nurses are closely linked to nursing practice. The practice of nursing is influenced by the climate in which nurses work, their status, and how the public and other health professionals view them.”
–The Bulletin, April-May 1978.
“The first Annual Nurse Advocacy Day was March 19, 1986 with ninety-three nurses from around the state attending.”
–The Missouri Nurse, May-June 1986. (More than 650 attended in 2006)