November 08, 2023

Renew your registration now to continue practicing nursing in 2024

Annual Membership Renewal is now open. Your fees support the important work of protecting the public by promoting patient safety.  

Pay your fees by Dec. 31

Annual Membership Renewal (AMR) is now open.

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 self-regulating in the public interest.

As a nurse in Ontario, when you renew your registration with CNO, you are able to practice nursing in the province for the next calendar year.

“Fees support our core work to regulate nursing in the public interest,” said Chief Administrative Officer Stephen Mills. “Renewal means we can sustainably take on the work we do to maintain public confidence and safety – we all play an important role in that mandate, and we thank nurses for doing so.”

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

  • maintain the registration of approximately 180,000 nurses who were actively practicing in 2023

  • provide safe and high-quality care to patients by engaging in quality assurance activities that promote self-reflection and life-long learning throughout your careers

  • maintain the voluntary bilingual 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

  • sustain core regulatory functions, establish requirements for entry to practice, enforce standards of practice and conduct, articulate and promote practice standards

These are just a few examples of how you are helping CNO respond to the evolving needs of the health care system, while building innovative and sustainable solutions for now and into the future.  

How to renew

Renewing your 2024 registration involves

  • completing the Annual Membership Renewal (AMR) form, which includes questions about your employment status, areas of practice and education

  • paying an annual fee

You can renew and pay your fees online by logging in to Maintain Your Membership with your email address and password. Unless you have changed it, your password is the same one you used last year.

The deadline to renew, without additional late fees, is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023.

The 2024 renewal fee for registrants in the General and Extended classes is $340 plus HST. The renewal fee for registrants in the Non-Practising class is $63 plus HST.

You can pay online using credit card, Visa Debit, Mastercard Debit, or a prepaid credit card. Many banks and our payment partners made the decision that they will no longer support INTERAC Online transactions as of Oct. 2023. 

For more information about payment options or the registration renewal process, check out our FAQ page.

 

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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