The theme of CNO’s 2024 Annual Report, “Building Better Together”, highlights our role in the health care system and the benefits of our system partnerships in 2024.

Our collaborations led to meaningful changes and transformed our work into impactful solutions to support health human resources and safe nursing practice. This also led to CNO being recognized as a trusted system partner, something we will continue to build on in 2025.

Highlights in the annual report:

  • 195,334 total nurses in the Ontario health care system
  • modernizing the registration process to support health system needs, including updating the nursing education registration requirement and adding a new Transition to Practice requirement
  • enhancing labour mobility while supporting safe nursing practice with the Interjurisdictional Nurse Licensure initiative 
  • continuing the development of a multi-partner, North American database to support safe care