Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
organization in Toronto, Canada
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional association representing registered nurses, nurse practitioners and nursing students in the province of Ontario, Canada. RNAO provides a strong and credible voice for the nursing profession to influence and promote healthy public policy.
Strategic directions
RNAO's strategic directions are to:
Engage with registered nurses, nurse practitioners and undergraduate nursing students to stimulate membership and promote the value of belonging to their professional organization.
Advance the role and image of nurses as members of a vital, knowledge-driven, caring profession, and as significant contributors to health.
Speak out on emerging issues that impact on nurses and the nursing profession, health and health care.
Influence healthy public policies to positively impact the determinants of health, supporting Medicare and strengthening a publicly funded, not-for-profit health-care system.
Organizational structure
General membership
General membership helps determine the direction of the association through various mechanisms, including the submission, revision and passing of resolutions to the Annual General Meeting, voting on various governance issues, as well as committees, surveys, feedback, etc. The membership is composed of registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and nursing students representing all roles and areas of nursing practice.
Board of directors
The RNAO Board of Directors (BOD) operates as a policy-oriented governing board. The board governs on behalf of the association's membership and provides strategic leadership.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7309395. VIAF identifies the subject as 140666344. The Library of Congress control number is n50064556. Authority coordinates are 43.648, -79.388. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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