Throughout these years, nurses have lacked a solid financial base for their visions, goals, and research projects. The next 100 years will be filled with needs. Nurses need that financial base in order to address these needs through innovative methods at the bedside, in administration, in home health, in nursing homes, in schools, and in education. MNA committed the financial resources to purchase 2.5 acres of land in Madison. Construction of this facility was completed in December 1997.
Meeting space is available for classroom instruction as well as computer adapted instruction.
The education center also houses a computer lab for online research and continuing education. Meeting space is available for all nursing organizations, committees, and other related groups. The historical exhibit commemorating 100 years of professional nursing in Mississippi, unveiled in September 1998 at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, is also housed at The Mississippi Center for Nursing. Another objective of the capital campaign is to establish an endowment for the purpose of financing health care projects of Mississippi's Registered Nurses. This nurse will coordinate community research projects by partnering RNs across the state with hospitals, universities, home health agencies, nursing homes and corporations to develop and conduct projects that will improve health care.