December 19, 2023
December 2023

Renew your registration for 2024 now

All nurses must renew their registration annually to practice in Ontario; deadline without late fee is December 31. 

CNO’s Annual Membership Renewal is well underway and you have until Sunday, Dec. 31 to renew your registration for 2024.

Your CNO registration helps us fund initiatives such as collecting and analyzing data that supports the health care system. Today, CNO is the authoritative source of data used to aid decision-making in provincial health care planning provincially and across the country. For instance, CNO provides anonymized registration, application and employment data to the Canadian Institute for Health Information to inform health human resources planning at a federal level, and to the Health Professions Database at the Ministry of Health to inform planning provincially. These data are a useful resource for many of our partners in patient safety and workforce planning — helping nursing and health system leaders plan better for nursing needs in the future and stabilize the workforce of today. 

In addition, your fees help us ensure practice standards are relevant to current nursing practice and health care system needs. For example, the updated RN prescribing practice standard — which was jointly announced by CNO and the Ministry of Health just last month — will increase access to care by allowing registered nurses who meet requirements to prescribe certain medications and communicate a diagnosis.

These are just a few examples of how your fees 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

You can renew your registration today by logging-in to Maintain Your Membership.

The renewal fee is $340, plus HST. The renewal fee for the non-practicing class is $63, plus HST. To avoid paying a late penalty in addition to your fees, please renew your membership by 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 31.

If you have any questions, you can visit our FAQ page for helpful information. You also can contact our Renewal Call Centre for further assistance. Our team is available at 1 866 573-5405 in North America or 416 849-6135 outside North America, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST. Renewing as soon as you can ensures our system has lots of capacity to support whatever your needs may be.

Together, we can promote safe nursing practice in Ontario.   

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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