Member and Affiliate Options

Joining CNA is the best investment you can make for your career and for the future of nursing. We're pleased to welcome all regulated nurses: nurse practitioners, registered nurses, licensed/registered practical nurses, and registered psychiatric nurses. We also welcome nursing students and retired nurses in all categories.

Membership options

Choose from the following membership options.

Affiliate options

Not a nurse? Live outside of Canada? You can still support nursing in Canada and advance the nursing profession. By joining as an affiliate, you will stay up to date with what CNA is doing for Canada’s nursing profession.

“I am a very proud member of the Canadian Nurses Association — and have been for more than five decades. While I did not fully understand the importance of a national professional association in the early days of my career, I have come to truly value the powerful social and health-care policy voice we can have when we come together as nurses — all designations, geographic regions, and domains of practice. These recent years have confronted our profession with difficult issues, and we will undoubtedly face many more. But I am confident that a strong and vibrant CNA will continue to ensure that our distinctive disciplinary values and angle of vision shine through in shaping a collective strategy for all the complexities as they arise.”

– Sally Thorne, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAHS, FCAN, CM
Professor Emeritus, UBC School of Nursing

Questions? Email us at members@cna-aiic.ca.