August 10, 2020
November 2020

Annual Membership Renewal opens today!

It’s time to renew your CNO membership for 2022. To practice as a nurse in Ontario in 2022, you must renew your registration with CNO. You have until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2021 to complete your renewal without additional fees.

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.

There are two steps to renewing your membership ...

It’s time to renew your CNO membership for 2022. To practice as a nurse in Ontario in 2022, you must renew your registration with CNO. You have until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2021 to complete your renewal without additional fees.

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.

There are two steps to renewing your membership: completing a form and sending payment. First, fill out the Annual Membership Renewal (AMR) form in Maintain Your Membership. The form includes questions about your employment status, areas of practice and education. Then, you will need to pay an annual fee.

There are no fee increases for 2022 membership renewal; the fees haven't increased since 2019. The 2022 renewal fee for members in the General and Extended classes is $270 (with HST, the total is $305.10). The renewal fee for members in the Non-Practising class is $50 (with HST, the total is $56.50).

What fees are for

Paying your fees to be registered with CNO not only renews your ability to practice nursing in Ontario, it also makes you a contributor in nursing regulation and public protection. It allows nurses to collectively fulfil the profession’s regulatory mandate to protect the public and supports public trust in nurses.

As well, by paying your fees you ensure that your employment and education information is accurate on Find a Nurse. This information helps us protect the public by ensuring safe nursing practice.

Learn more about renewal, including key dates, by reading our AMR FAQs.

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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