Nurses and other health professionals practise to their full scope when they are in a practice environment that enables them to fully utilize their competencies, knowledge, and skills to provide high quality, evidence-based and patient-centred care.

RNAO released a comprehensive report called Creating Vibrant Communities: RNAO's Challenge to Ontario's Political Parties in January 2010.

This backgrounder provides an overview of Ontario’s Registered Nurse (RN) workforce, which is broken into RNs in the general class (RN(GC)s) and RNs in the extended class (nurse practitioners or “NPs”). Unless otherwise specified, “RN” refers to both groups. RPNs refer to registered practical nurses.