• log in to Maintain Your Membership and click “Renew my Membership” 
• fill out the renewal form, which includes questions about your employment status, areas of practice and education
• pay the required fees. This includes an annual membership fee of $415.84 (including HST). 

The process takes about 10 minutes to complete. We recommend having your work experience information and other practice details handy, so you can move quickly and smoothly through the process. If you need to stop and come back to it later, select Exit and Finish Later, found at the bottom of the page.

If you have questions or need assistance, check our troubleshooting tips below or contact us. 

We thank you in advance for renewing your registration and your commitment to nursing and the people of Ontario.

Annual renewal for the 2026 calendar year opens on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. You can renew anytime between Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 and the deadline, which is Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. 

If you intend to practice nursing in 2026 and miss the Dec. 31 renewal deadline, you can still renew if you pay an additional late fee ($152.55) and complete renewal before Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. 

If no action is taken before Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, we will have to suspend your registration. You cannot practice nursing with a suspended registration.

Once your registration is suspended, you have until Sunday, March 22, 2026 to lift the suspension by renewing (or resigning) your registration. If you don’t act to lift the suspension, then your registration will expire on Monday, March 23, 2026. 

For more information about what happens if your registration is suspended or expires, please read our FAQs about suspension.

Yes. Log in to Maintain Your Membership and select “Renew Your Membership Now”. Then, select “Français” in the top right-hand corner. 

You can also read these FAQs in French by selecting “FR” located near the top right of this screen. 

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

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

No. Only nurses who are registered need to renew their membership every year. Until your application is complete and you become registered, you do not need to worry about renewal. 

Yes. Your registration is valid for the current calendar year in which you registered or reinstated. In the fall of each year, we ask you to renew your registration for the upcoming year. 

For example, if you registered in September 2025, your registration is valid for the rest of 2025. As we near the end of 2025, you’ll need to renew your registration so that it’s valid for 2026. 

If you’re taking leave for any reason, such as maternity or parental leave, you have a few options available. 

The first option is to renew your registration and remain registered while you are not working. The benefit is you can more easily reenter practice when your leave is over. If you choose this option, you still need to hold professional liability protection (PLP). Anyone in the General or Extended classes must hold PLP, regardless of whether they are currently practicing nursing.

Another option is to 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 practice once your leave ends, you will need to reinstate your registration in 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).

For more information about the Non-Practising Class, visit our Non-Practising Class page or call or email us for more information.  

First of all, thank you for your service to nursing. On behalf of patients across the province, we are grateful for your incredible work and dedication to the nursing profession and patient safety.

To end your active registration with CNO, you can either resign your registration or enter the Non-Practising Class. 

To resign your registration, complete one of these steps before Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026: 

• log in to Maintain Your Membership, then click “Resign my Membership”
• call CNO at 866 573-5405 (in North America) or +1 416 849-6135 (outside North America) and tell us you would like to resign.

If you don’t want to resign but aren’t going to practice nursing in 2026, you may wish to enter the Non-Practising Class. The main difference between the Non-Practising Class and the other classes is that registrants in this class cannot practice nursing in Ontario, either paid or unpaid. They also cannot vote in CNO elections or sit on our Council. Nurses in the Non-Practising Class do not need to participate in Quality Assurance or hold professional liability protection (PLP). 

For more information about the Non-Practising Class, visit our Non-Practising Class page or call or email us for more information.  

Tip: If you are retiring or leaving nursing, we strongly recommend either resigning your registration or entering the Non-Practising Class instead of allowing your registration to become suspended or expired. When a nurse’s registration is suspended or expired, that information is permanently noted on CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse. Also, if you ever decide to return to nursing, there are additional fees for reinstating an expired registration.  

Fees collected during renewal and at registration allow CNO to perform its core functions as a regulator. This includes setting and maintaining the requirements for registration as a nurse, evaluating the levels of risk associated with a nurse's behaviour and taking the appropriate steps to protect the public, creating new practice standards to support scope of practice changes and articulating and promoting existing standards, and administering a Quality Assurance program to ensure nurses maintain competence throughout their careers. 

Your fees also support your day-to-day practice, like when you reach out to us with a practice question or when we develop a new practice standard to support your decision making. 

Other times, your fees help to advance the nursing profession, allowing us to create new and innovative programs. One example is the Supervised Practice Experience Partnership, which has matched more than 6,560 applicants with more than 824 employers, providing them with practice experience needed to become a nurse. Your fees have also helped to create efficiencies, including making it more seamless for nurses from other Canadian jurisdictions to work in Ontario. They also help us evolve the profession with changes like RN prescribing — an evolution that keeps nurses at the forefront of patient access to care.

This work is all shaped by you, Ontario’s nurses! Not only do nurses work at CNO, sit on CNO’s Council and run the committees that oversee our work, you also provide direct feedback that informs decision-making. Thank you for shaping the future of nursing with us!

We are often asked why the fee is the same for all nurses—specifically, why do RPNs and RNs pay the same amount? The answer is that the cost of regulation doesn’t vary between nurses. Our processes and resources don’t change based on your designation, and we don’t set nurse salaries. Charging different fees would be unfair.

CNO is committed to charging only what we need to do our work of regulating the profession. We make every effort to keep fees among the lowest of any regulated health care profession in Ontario.

Professional liability protection (PLP) is not included in your renewal fees. Nurses in the General, Extended, Temporary, Emergency Assignment and Special Assignment classes are required to hold PLP, regardless of whether they are currently practicing nursing. 

Your employer may have PLP coverage that covers its nursing staff. You are responsible for confirming that this coverage meets CNO requirements. 

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 had 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.

Learn more about your requirement to have professional liability protection. 

• Avoid peak times. It can take longer for some pages to load if many nurses are renewing at the same time. We recommend renewing before mid-December to ensure a smooth and easy renewal experience. 
• Gather your material before you start. During renewal, we’ll ask you questions about where you work. Collect all those details ahead of time and have them ready so you can move through renewal quickly and easily. 
• Update your browser. Use the latest version of Chrome, Edge, Safari, or TK Browser. More information about recommended browser versions. 
• Always use the Previous or Next buttons when using the AMR application. Do not select the Back or Forward arrows in your browser. 
• Log out when you complete renewal, especially if you are using a shared computer. 

During busy times, it may take longer for pages to load if many nurses are renewing at the same time. 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.

For best results, we recommend using the latest version of your web browser. Learn more about minimum browser requirements. 

Yes, you can stop and save your work and come back to it. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select the Exit and Finish Later button. 

Once you submit your payment, you will receive a confirmation that the transaction was successful. Please wait for this confirmation message before closing your browser. 

At peak times, there may be a short delay while the payment processes before you see the confirmation screen. 

Once you have completed the renewal form and paid the fees, your Renewal Status on Maintain Your Membership will change. Select “renewal” to see your status. 

Our dedicated Renewal Call Centre is available to assist with questions about renewing your membership. The Renewal Call Centre is open Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Agents are available via email or by phone: 866 573-5405 (North America) or +1 416 849-6135 (outside North America)

Please note: the Renewal Call Centre will be closed on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025 and Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.

CNO is authorized and required under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 to collect information about nurses, including basic demographic, geographic, education and employment information. The anonymous data helps the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Long-Term Care develop policies and programs that address nursing supply and distribution, education, recruitment and retention.

Like other Canadian nursing regulators, we share the anonymous data with the Canadian Institute for Health Information. This data is used to make improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada.

We also share the anonymous data with others in the health care system, including researchers, the media and the public.

You don’t have to do anything different. Renew your registrations with both CNO and the other regulator as you usually would. CNO’s system will determine that you are an interjurisdictional registrant based on the information you declare about being registered in the same category in another province where you also live.

Administrative suspension is a temporary status for nurses who have not renewed their registration. When suspended, a nurse cannot practice nursing in Ontario, use the title “nurse,” or perform any of the controlled acts authorized to nursing. Suspensions are permanently recorded on CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse.

A suspension ends when the suspended nurse takes action to renew (or resign) their registration, or the suspension deadline passes. Once the suspension deadline passes, the suspension becomes an expiry. 

If you wish to practice nursing in 2026, you should take action and renew as soon as possible to ensure you remain registered with CNO. 

Complete these steps before Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026 to avoid suspension: 

• log in to Maintain Your Membership, then click “Renew my Membership” 
• fill out the renewal form, which includes questions about your employment status, areas of practice and education
• pay the required fees. This includes an annual membership fee of $415.84 (including HST), plus a late fee of $152.55 (including HST).

We thank you in advance for renewing your registration and your commitment to nursing and the people of Ontario.

If you are retiring, leaving nursing, or do not wish to practice nursing anymore, you can either enter the Non-Practising Class or let us know you would like to resign your registration. 

We strongly recommend using one of these options [MW18.1]instead of allowing your registration to become suspended or expired. When a nurse’s registration is suspended or expired, that information is permanently noted on CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse. Also, if you ever decide to return to nursing, there are additional fees for reinstating an expired registration. 

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 the following: 

• log in to Maintain Your Membership, then click “Resign my Membership”
• call CNO at 866 573-5405 (in North America) or +1 416 849-6135 (outside North America) and tell us you would like to resign.

Whether you have reached the end of your nursing career or are moving on to new professional endeavours, thank you for your service to the nursing profession and the patients and people of Ontario.

You cannot practice nursing while your registration is suspended. But it is possible to remove a suspension and renew your registration if you act before Sunday, March 22, 2026. 

To remove the suspension and renew: 

• log in to Maintain Your Membership and click “Renew my Membership”
• fill out the Annual Renewal form, which includes questions about your employment status, areas of practice and education
• pay the required fees. This includes the annual membership fee of $415.84, a late fee of $146.90, and a suspension lifting fee of $79.10.  

If you do not renew before Sunday, March 22, 2026, then CNO will expire your membership on Monday, March 23, 2026. 

If your registration with CNO expires, you cannot practice as a nurse in Ontario, use the title “nurse” or any of the protected titles related to nursing (such as RN, RPN, NP) or perform an act authorized to nursing. 

The expiration is permanently noted on CNO’s public register, Find a Nurse. 

If you wish to practice nursing and your registration has expired, you will need to apply to have it reinstated.

If your registration has expired, you can apply to have it reinstated. Reinstating an expired registration takes time and additional fees are required. Therefore, we recommend avoiding expiry by taking action to renew or to resign your registration. 

To reinstate an expired registration, you must:  

• submit an application to CNO 
• correct any deficiencies that resulted in the original expiry (for example, pay all fees, provide required information) 
• meet CNO’s Evidence of Practice requirement. 

The Nursing Act, 1991 and the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 determine how the nursing profession is regulated in Ontario. 

Section 24 of the Health Professions Procedural Code (Code), Schedule 2 to the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991, allows CNO’s Registrar & CEO to suspend members who have not paid their fees 30 days after providing a notice of the intention to suspend. Articles 5.01 to 5.03 of CNO’s Fees By-Law (By-Law No. 3) says all members must pay an annual fee on or before December 31 of the previous year and sets the amount of that fee. 

Clause 10.1(1) of CNO’s Registration Regulation (Part II, Registration of Ontario Regulation 275/94, General as amended by O. Reg. 175/12.), allows CNO’s Registrar & CEO to suspend members who have not provided information requested by CNO, after providing 30 days’ notice. Article 44.2 of CNO’s General By-Law (By-Law No. 1), states nurses are required to provide specific information on request. 

You can read the regulations and by-laws, and find more information about the legislation governing CNO, at www.cno.org. 

Clause 10.4(1) of Part II Registration of Ontario Regulation 275/94, General, as amended by Ontario Regulation 215/12, requires that the Registrar & CEO of CNO expire the membership of a nurse who was suspended under Section 24 of the Code for failure to pay a fee or under Clause 10.1(1) for failure to provide information.

You can read the regulations and by-laws, and find more information about the legislation governing CNO, at www.cno.org.