The following is a list of practice standards, practice guidelines, forms and other publications available from the College of Nurses of Ontario.

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General

Entry to Practice / Registration

Quality Assurance

Practice

Document Title Date last updated (MM/YYYY) 
Practice Standards  
Code of Conduct 03/2026
Confidentiality and Privacy - Personal Health Information 07/2025

Documentation  

 02/2026
Discontinuing or Declining to Provide Care 03/2026
Medication 07/2025
Nurse Practitioner 03/2026
Registered Nurse (RN) Prescribing 03/2026
Scope of Practice 07/2025

Professional Boundaries and Nurse-Client Relationships (new)

 03/2026
Practice Guidelines  
Conflict Prevention and Management 03/2026
Consent 07/2025
Directives 07/2025
Guidance on Nurses’ Roles in Medical Assistance in Dying 06/2025
Independent Practice 07/2025 
Virtual Care 03/2026
Working with Unregulated Care Providers 07/2025
Fact Sheets  
How to support a patient safety culture 12/2019
Self-care 12/2019
Forms  
Practice Support Form
  

Professional Conduct

Publications

Document Title Publication Frequency
Academic Reference Group: News to use 3x/year
Employer Reference Group: News to use 4x/year
The Standard 6x/year

Abuse Prevention

Document Title Date last updated (MM/YYYY)
One is One Too Many Facilitator's Guide   05/2005 
One is One Too Many Nurses' Workbook  05/2005
Patient experience of sexual abuse word cloud 12/2019
Professional boundaries: Sexual abuse warning signs 12/2019
Understanding sexual abuse True or False  12/2019
Webpages & videos   
Intentional harm videos 01/2021
Sexual abuse prevention
  
Sexual abuse prevention: Case scenarios 12/2019
Sexual abuse prevention: Employer toolkit
 12/2019
Sexual abuse prevention: Webcast
 03/2020
Fact Sheets
  
Preventing Client Abuse
 02/2011