November 06, 2024

It’s time to renew your nursing registration

Learn more about renewal and how your fees support regulatory work

A nurse renewing their membership.

Annual membership renewal for 2025 is open as of Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.

You can renew your nursing registration in Maintain Your Membership.

The renewal process involves:

  • filling out the AMR form, which includes questions about your employment, areas of practice and education
  • paying an annual fee. The 2025 renewal fee for nurses in the General and Extended classes is $400.02, including HST. The renewal fee for nurses in the Non-Practising class is $74.58 including HST.

Renew by 11:59 p.m. (midnight) on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024 to avoid paying a late fee.

CNO is committed to transformational, system-wide work that supports Ontario’s exceptional nursing workforce. Your renewal and registration fees sustain the regulation of the nursing profession and fund essential initiatives that ultimately enhance the quality and safety of nursing care in Ontario. This includes:   

  • supporting the safe implementation of changes to nursing scope, including the creation of several new practice standards. When the government announces a change to nursing scope of practice, we determine what’s needed to ensure patient safety. To see our educational and informational resources, including new and updated practice standards, webinars, presentations, FAQs and more, visit our Standards & Guidelines page 
  • modernizing our registration process and creating innovative new programs to ensure timely and equitable registration of new nurses. We’re seeing the results of this work: over the last 12 months we registered a total of 14,654 new nurses to support Ontario’s health care system 
  • collecting and sharing province-wide data on nursing registration, applications and employment to support informed decision-making within the health care system. This data helps our system partners address labour imbalances and contributes to a sustainable, patient-focused system
  • administering a Quality Assurance program to ensure nurses maintain competence throughout their careers
  • 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

These are just a few examples of how your renewal and registration fees contribute to nursing regulation.

We are grateful for the important role you play in the health care system, and your ongoing support in upholding the standards of the profession.

For help renewing your registration, visit our AMR FAQs page or contact the Renewal Contact Centre.

About CNO

The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) is the regulator of the nursing profession in Ontario. It is not a school or a nursing association. CNO acts in the public interest by:

  • assessing qualifications and registering individuals who want to practice nursing in Ontario.
  • setting the practice standards of the profession that nurses in Ontario are expected to meet.
  • promoting nurses' continuing competence through a quality assurance program.
  • holding nurses accountable to those standards by addressing complaints or reports about nursing care.

The College was founded in 1963. By establishing the College, the Ontario government was acknowledging that the nursing profession had the ability to govern itself and put the public's well-being ahead of professional interests.

For the latest information, please see our Nursing Statistics page.

Anyone who wants to use a nursing-related title — Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) or Nurse Practitioner (NP) must become a member of CNO.

Frequently Asked Questions

Go to the public Register, Find a Nurse, to conduct a search for the nurse. Contact us if you can't find the person you are looking for.

All public information available about nurses is posted in the public Register, Find a Nurse, which contains profiles of every nurse in Ontario. Publicly available information about nurses include their registration history, business address, and information related to pending disciplinary hearings or past findings.

Unregistered practitioners are people who are seeking employment in nursing or holding themselves out as being able to practice nursing in Ontario, but who are not qualified to do so. They are not registered members of CNO. Only people registered with CNO can use nursing-related titles or perform certain procedures that could cause harm if carried out by a non-registered health professional. CNO takes the issue of unregistered practitioners seriously. See Unregistered Practitioners for more information.

To ensure procedural fairness for both the patient (or client) and the nurse, the Regulated Health Professions Act requires that information gathered during an investigation remain confidential until the matter is referred to the Discipline Committee or Fitness to Practise Committee. CNO will not disclose any information that could identify patients (or clients) or compromise an investigation. See Investigations: A Process Guide for more information.

Information obtained during an investigation will become public if the matter is referred to a disciplinary hearing. If a complaint is not referred to a hearing, no information will be available publicly.

See CNO's hearings schedule, which is updated as hearing dates are confirmed. Hearings at CNO are open to the public and the media. For details on how to attend a hearing, contact the Hearings Administration Team.

A summary of allegations and the disciplinary panel outcomes can be found on the public Register, Find a Nurse. Full decisions and reasons are also available.

Where a disciplinary panel makes a finding of professional misconduct, they have the authority to reprimand a nurse, and suspend or revoke a nurse's registration. Terms, conditions and limitations can also be imposed on a nurse's registration, which restricts their practice for a set period. Nurses can also be required to complete remedial activities, such as reviewing CNO documents and meeting with an expert, before returning to practice.

For detailed information see the Sexual Abuse Prevention section.

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