Why Join
Membership in RNAO allows nursing students to actively engage in shaping healthcare and nursing policies which affect you now (e.g. full time positions for new graduates, issues like nursing student abuse, financial hardship, clinical placements…) and in the future (e.g. healthy workplace, funding for home healthcare and strengthening Medicare.)
Membership will enable you to be constantly well informed about student specific and student related issues. Admittance to conferences and events will enable you to meet and connect with other student nurses of Ontario.
Meet nurses and nursing leaders through RNAO chapters, interest groups, and special events, who could open doors for your career developments.
You will have access to the following:
Your connection to information and knowledge:
Membership will enable you to be constantly well informed about student specific and student related issues. Admittance to conferences and events will enable you to meet and connect with other student nurses of Ontario.
Meet nurses and nursing leaders through RNAO chapters, interest groups, and special events, who could open doors for your career developments.
You will have access to the following:
- 10% discounts on all Churchill, Saunders, Mosby, Butterworth-Heinmann and Livingstone books (via Members Only area of RNAO website: www.rnao.org).
- Financial assistance is available through RNAO’s Permanent Education Fund.
- Pathways, RNAO’s annual guide to bursaries, scholarships and grants for nursing students is available to members for free ($15 for non-members).
- RNAO supports you by providing you with free access to: job search techniques, resume writing and interviewing skills.
Your connection to information and knowledge:
- RNAO’s leadership in analyzing, clarifying and speaking to various complex health and nursing issues as they happen will complements your education in the classroom and at the bedside.
- Access to RNAO’s 26 interest groups not only broadens your scope, it also provides relevant information to help you make wise decisions on your clinical area of specialization.
- A CD containing all published Nursing Best Practice Guidelines helps you to improve your practice. (The CD, a $15 value, is complimentary to basic nursing students who belong to RNAO. Members also have access to updates.)
- The Registered Nurse Journal (part of membership benefits), the monthly “In the Loop” e-newsletter and daily “Media Clips” sent via email keep you informed of what is happening in healthcare and nursing.
