AMR for the 2026 calendar year will open in the fall of 2025. Check this page for more information in the fall. 

The deadline to renew is Dec. 31, at 12:00 a.m. (midnight).

All nurses are required by provincial legislation to register with CNO and renew their registration annually. Paying your registration fees with CNO renews your ability to practice nursing in Ontario.

Our purpose is to protect the public by promoting safe nursing practice. CNO is a regulator, which means we promote nursing standards, registers nurses to practice, administers a Quality Assurance Program and ensures each person calling themselves a nurse in Ontario has the knowledge, skill, and judgment to practice safely.

And, as a regulator for the largest group of health care providers in Canada, CNO has a proud 60-year history of influencing the patient safety agenda in Ontario and beyond. We do this by working closely with several partners in safety, including employers, educators and government. Together we support safe nursing practice in Ontario. 

Your fees support the important work of protecting the public by promoting safe nursing practice because you are helping us to:

• support data capacity that informs workforce planning.
• maintain the registration of approximately 180,000 nurses who were actively practicing in 2023.
• provide the safest and highest quality care to patients by engaging in quality assurance activities that promote self-reflection and life-long learning throughout your careers.
• increase access to quality care across the province through updates to RN prescribing practice standards, which will allow registered nurses who meet requirements to prescribe certain medications and communicate a diagnosis.
• implement the voluntary Nurses’ Health Program for Ontario nurses designed to encourage them to seek treatment for substance use and/or mental health disorders that may affect their ability to practice nursing safely.

You deserve a regulator that is agile and responsive to the health care needs of our local communities, while embracing the global nature of the profession. By working together, we protect the public through safe nursing practice.

Your renewal fee funds CNO and our regulatory processes. So, paying your fees to be registered with CNO not only renews your ability to practice nursing in Ontario, but it also makes you a contributor in nursing regulation and public protection.

In Ontario, legislation identifies certain professions that are self-regulated to ensure public safety. Nursing is one of these self-regulated professions, along with 25 other health care professions in Ontario. Members of these professions pay a regulatory body to set and enforce standards and entry requirements.

Having one set of standards and entry requirements and providing oversight and accountability for all nurses helps ensure public confidence in the quality of nurses in the province.

By renewing your annual fees with CNO you are also renewing your professional commitment to standards and public safety.

In Ontario, nursing is self-regulated and it’s through your fees that the nursing profession is regulated in Ontario. Renewing your registration and paying a fee makes you a part of the regulation of your profession. As a member of CNO, you can actively participate in many of these regulatory processes. You can join CNO Council, committees and reference groups. Or provide feedback about changes to by-laws, regulations and standards of practices.

The 2026 renewal fee for all RNs, RPNs and NPs in the General, Extended classes is $415.84 (including HST).

The renewal fee for those in the Non-Practising class is $77.97 (including HST).

No. Your application with CNO is different than renewal. Renewal is for nurses who are already registered in the General Class. If you are an applicant, please continue to pursue your application. We will ask you to pay your registration fee at the time you enter the General Class.

Application fees are one time and do not need to be renewed.

If you want to remain registered in the General Class for the upcoming year, you need to renew. This includes paying the annual fee, confirming the Declaration of Practice and holding professional liability protection (PLP). Nurses in the General and Extended classes are required to hold PLP, regardless of whether they are currently practicing nursing.

If you don’t want to renew, you have the option of resigning your membership or moving to the Non-Practising class. If you move to the Non-Practising Class, your renewal fee will be lower, and you don’t need to hold PLP. However, if you want to return to practicing nursing after your leave, you will need to return to the General Class. This includes:

• applying for reinstatement
• paying the reinstatement fees
• meeting the requirements (which can include providing evidence of practice, language proficiency and possibly writing the Jurisprudence exam).

We cannot confirm how long it will take to review and process your reinstatement application so you can return to practice. You should contact CNO before you anticipate returning to practice to allow us time to process your reinstatement.

Yes. Your registration (or reinstatement) is valid for the current calendar year in which you completed it. 

In the fall of each year, we ask you to renew your registration for the upcoming year. 

For example, if you registered in October 2025, your registration is valid for 2025. Before the end of 2025 (the deadline is Dec. 31 at midnight) you’ll need to renew your registration so that it’s valid for 2026. 

Regulation costs the same for all nurses regardless of category. Our processes, such as registration renewal, online practice support or developing practice standards, require the same resources whether it’s for RNs, RPNs or NPs.

Since CNO’s role is to protect the public, it would be a conflict of interest to provide professional liability protection. For example, it would be a conflict if we have to administer a discipline penalty against a nurse and then cover the nurse’s liability claim.

Unions and professional associations, such as ONA, CNPS, RNAO, WeRPN or NPAO, are organizations that exist to represent nurses’ interest. This includes providing you with access to professional liability protection.

And, while our roles are different, we partner with these organizations to ensure everyone in Ontario benefits from safe, quality nursing care.

A Visa or Mastercard credit card and a Visa or Mastercard Debit card are different. A credit card does not draw any money from your account immediately and must be paid back in the future, subject to interest charges. This is why many banks have added the feature to their bank cards.

When used as a Visa Debit card, or Mastercard Debit card, the transaction to draw the money goes through the Visa or Mastercard network rather than the INTERAC network. INTERAC is generally limited to Canada, while Visa or Mastercard debit can be used globally.

Yes, it is safe. We don’t process or store your financial information within our own systems. When you pay your registration fee, the transaction is securely handled by a third-party vendor. We do not have access to, retain or share your credit card or banking information.

CNO’s fiscal year is aligned with the calendar year. We know the winter holidays can be an expensive time for some, but when you pay your renewal fees before December 31 you are supporting CNO’s financial sustainability for the next calendar year. This ensures we can continue to regulate nursing in Ontario in the public interest.

Yes, CNO shares renewal information in the following ways:

1. We are required under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 to collect information about our registrants, including basic demographic, geographic, education and employment information. The anonymous data helps the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care develop policies and programs that address nursing supply and distribution, education, recruitment and retention.
2. Like other Canadian nursing regulators, we share the anonymous data with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). This data is used to make improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada.
3. We also share the anonymous data with other stakeholders, including researchers, the media and the public.

Go to Maintain Your Membership and log in with your email address and password.

Unless you have changed it, your password is the same one you used last year.

For more information about how CNO uses your email address and why it is required, visit www.cno.org/emailfaq.

If you are using an older version of a web browser, you may have difficulty accessing Maintain Your Membership. Check here to make sure your browser will work properly.

As part of annual Quality Assurance requirements, you must develop and maintain a Learning Plan, and acknowledge that you have met the QA requirements or developed a learning plan as part of completing AMR. We do not require that you submit the Learning Plan to CNO.

Always use the Previous or Next buttons when using the AMR application. Do not click Back or Forward in your browser.

Please be patient, as many nurses are renewing at the same time. If you see a Please Wait message, do not refresh or reload your page.

During busy times, it may take longer for pages to load. Please be patient, and do not refresh or reload your page. All browsers except Safari should display a progress bar to show you how the information is processing.

Yes, you can pause the renewal application at any time provided that you complete renewal before Tuesday, Dec. 31. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Exit and Finish Later button. Also, remember to log out of Maintain Your Membership by clicking the logout button in the top right-hand corner of the page.

It may seem like we’re collecting a lot of information, but it’s required under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991. The renewal information also informs the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s policies and programs.

Most nurses only need about 12 minutes to complete renewal, but it can take up to 30 minutes. Before starting, we suggest you have your work experience information and other practice details handy, so you can move quickly and smoothly through the process.

Log in to Maintain Your Membership using your email and password. Then, click on Renew Your Membership Now, and simply choose “Français” (French) in the top right-hand corner.

Once you submit your payment, you will receive a confirmation that the transaction was successful. Please wait for this confirmation before closing your browser. At peak times, there may be a short delay before you see the confirmation while payment is processing.

After renewing and paying the fee, you’ll find the View/Print Receipt button at the bottom of the page.If you have already logged out of AMR, log back in to Maintain My Membership, click Now and choose View/Print Receipt.

There is a Logout button in the top right-hand corner of every AMR page. Click on it to make sure you’re logged out of Maintain Your Membership. This is especially important if you share a computer at home or work.

Once you have completed the renewal form and paid the fees, you can log in to Maintain Your Membership, click on renewal and check your Renewal Status.

If you do not want to renew, you can resign your registration. We recommend resigning your registration instead of allowing it to become suspended or expired. The suspension and expiry of your registration will be permanently noted on CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse. If you want to reinstate your registration, there are additional fees for reinstating an expired registration.

Alternatively, you may wish to enter the Non-Practising Class. For more information about the Non-Practising Class, visit our Non-Practising Class page or call or email us for more information.  

To resign your registration, complete one of these steps before Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025:   

• log in to Maintain Your Membership and click “Resign my Membership”  
• call CNO and tell us you would like to resign   
• email or mail CNO a signed letter that clearly states your name, registration number and wish to resign.