Continuing to Support and Grow its Nursing Workforce

Our government is bringing more nurses into the health care system by investing more than $500 million to educate new nurses and increasing opportunities for current nurses to access specialized training to upskill while on the job.

The province is also working with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) to reduce barriers for internationally educated nurses, allowing them to register to work in Ontario faster and start caring for Ontarians sooner.

By building on our actions to date to bolster the nursing workforce, we are strengthening health system capacity and ensuring Ontarians continue to have access to timely, high-quality care, where and when they need it.

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, our government continues to take bold and decisive action to support the province’s highly-skilled nursing workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care where and when they need it, closer to home.