About Us

CNA is the national and global professional voice of Canadian nursing, representing 135,000 nurses in all 13 jurisdictions across Canada.

CNA’s members include:

• Provincial and territorial nursing associations and colleges (nurses belonging to one of these organizations are automatically members of CNA)
• Licensed/registered practical nurses who have joined CNA
• Registered psychiatric nurses who have joined CNA
• Independent RNs from Ontario and Quebec who have joined CNA
• Retired nurses who have joined CNA
• Canadian Nursing Students’ Association
• Canadian Network of Nursing Specialties

CNA’s Objects

• to advance nursing excellence and positive health outcomes in the public interest;
• to promote profession-led regulation in the public interest;
• to act in the public interest for Canadian nursing and nurses, providing national and international leadership in nursing and health; and
• to advocate in the public interest for a publicly funded, not-for-profit health system.

CNA’s Goals

In pursuit of the vision and mission, CNA has established the following goals:

• To promote and enhance the role of nurses to strengthen nursing and the Canadian health system.
• To shape and advocate for healthy public policy provincially/territorially, nationally and internationally.
• To advance nursing leadership for nursing and for health.
• To broadly engage nurses in advancing nursing and health.

Bylaws [PDF, 428.5 KB]
CNA financial statements 2019 [PDF, 700.4 KB]

2019 Annual Report [PDF, 3.2 MB]