Nursing: Best Practice Guidelines

The Compendium of Standards of Practice for Nurses in Ontario comprises everything a practising nurse needs to know about the regulation of the nursing profession in Ontario. CNO standards are included in full, as well as information on College governance, the Quality Assurance Program, complaints and discipline procedures and more.

This document outlines the competencies expected of registered nurses, upon entry and ongoing registration with the College.

There are currently 29 published guidelines as well as a Toolkit and Educator's Resource to support implementation. A variety of additional support materials are available for download from this site.

Best Practice information sheets (or guidelines) are produced specifically for practising health professionals and are based on the best available research evidence as reported in systematic reviews.

Maintained by the Public Health Agency of Canada, this portal includes links to research and interventions for preventing chronic disease and health promotion.

This is a searchable index of Health Guidelines that includes Canadian nursing topics.

These competencies include outcomes “written specifically to support nursing resources, language, and the value of evidence-based practice.”