Workforce Census coming in February
CNO is launching its first-ever Workforce Census to better understand your experience working in Ontario’s health care system. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, all nurses will receive an email inviting you to share your voice and take part in the survey.
We hope you will make time to participate. A high rate of participation in the census will provide CNO with meaningful data and allow us to fully understand the experiences of nurses in Ontario – so we can help make meaningful change in the sector.
The results from the census will inform CNO’s work and help to identify and address the issues and challenges you face while working in Ontario’s health system.
To develop the census, we collaborated with community leaders, as well as experts in diversity, equity and inclusion who specialize in collecting data in health systems. These valuable partners include the Black Nurses Task Force, Canadian Black Nurses Alliance, Pan-Canadian Association of Nurses of African Descent (Ontario Black Nurses Network & Canadian Black Nurses Network), and the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council.
"The census is an opportunity for registered Ontario nurses to share their experience within the health care system,” said Brent Knowles, CNO’s Director of Analytics and Planning. “It will also provide us with a baseline to track progress toward advancing more equitable, diverse and inclusive policies.”
The census will provide you with an opportunity to self-identify in a wide variety of ways, share feedback on your practice environment and workplace experiences as well as your experience with CNO.
The census will not ask for your name or registration number and your responses cannot be linked to you. The data collected will not be linked to other resources and will only be released in aggregate form to system partners, such as the government, health profession regulators, nursing unions and associations, educational institutions with nursing programs and select organizations with a demonstrated ability to impart system-level change.
For more information about the upcoming Workforce Census and how you can participate, visit: www.cno.org/census.
