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Aug. 15, 2022
Nurses know what factors influence and shape people’s health. That’s why RNAO has developed a set of recommendations that cover the environment, the social determinants of health, nursing, care delivery and fiscal capacity.
Aug. 14, 2023
On Nov. 14, nurses took action and spoke up against Bill 124 – legislation that limits wage increases to one per cent and is a disgrace to nurses and other public sector workers
Feb. 9, 2024
Policy submissions
May 26, 2022
Policy letters
July 25, 2023
An overview of RNAO's policy work showing how the areas we focus on interelate.
July 25, 2023
More resources are needed for primary care, home and community care to decrease the number of patients in hospital. RNAO continues to call for an accessible, equitable, person-centred and publicly-funded health system.

Enhancing Community Care for Ontarians (ECCO) 2.0 - April 2014

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In October 2012, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) issued Enhancing Community Care for Ontarians (ECCO), a bold model for health system transformation. Subject to significant praise, debate and discussion, this model generated timely and important dialogue on how to make the system more integrated and person‐centred, while ensuring the ongoing sustainability of a publicly‐funded and not‐for‐profit delivery model.1 Today, more than ever, we believe the dialogue must continue in a transparent way that is open to the public. To this end, RNAO is issuing ECCO 2.0.     

Queen's Park on the Road and Queen's Park Day action 2023 toolkit

Tools to download that will help you run advocacy meetings with MPP's on Queen's Park Day (QPD).

This year we are bringing forward the issues of understaffing and the opioid crisis.

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March 1, 2024
RNAO's ground breaking NP Research Chair
March 1, 2024
In March 2020, when the pandemic shut the world down, I had just completed orientation for the first clinical placement of my first year of nursing school. I never got to work at the long-term care home I selected, and I was forced to finish the term from my home computer.
March 1, 2024
Rosanra (Rosie) Yoon’s earliest childhood memories harken back to her days accompanying her mother on the streetcar for monthly visits to Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. From the age of four to eight, she was scared and nervous on these outings, but as soon as she saw her mother’s nurse, she felt safe.
March 1, 2024
Almost a year after Hamilton city councillors voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs, CBC Hamilton has learned city officials still haven't submitted that request for exemption to Health Canada. Researchers and advocates have mixed feelings about whether the delay is "inexcusable" or part of "good faith" efforts.
March 1, 2024
The upcoming municipal election has prompted the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario to call on mayoral candidates across Ontario to support the decriminalization of simple drug possession.
March 1, 2024
The opioid crisis—at its root—is an epidemic of an endless search for relief. More than eight people are dying per day in Ontario due to opioid overdoses. In Canada, there were nearly 20 deaths a day between the months of January and June 2022. As many as 98 percent of these overdoses are classified as accidental.
March 1, 2024
Nurses throughout Ontario are working to provide help to those affected by this crisis.
March 1, 2024
Members of the community joined local healthcare organizations in participating in an FASD Awareness Family Walk on September 9.
March 1, 2024
Nurse practitioner-led clinic operating for two days a week out of the Brock Mission.
March 1, 2024
Sudbury opioid deaths cited as an example of why a harm reduction approach is needed to prevent overdose deaths connected to substance abuse
March 1, 2024
Homelessness is most visceral in our local communities. But it demands an ambitious national perspective
March 1, 2024
ʻHelp is hereʼ: Mobile outreach unit brings treatment to opioid addicts in Norfolk County
March 1, 2024
Addiction treatment clinic opens at Lindsay's Ross Memorial Hospital
March 1, 2024
'It can happen to anybody,' says Kitchener mom ahead of Overdose Awareness Day
March 1, 2024
Why letting users know what's in the drugs they're taking is important as opioid deaths rise