CARNA office closure, operations continue virtually
As part of our measures to minimize the risk of COVID 19, we are closed to walk-in visitors without appointments. Hearing Tribunals and other business functions as appropriate will be conducted virtually.
We encourage you to contact us by email or phone during regular business hours.
Former registrants who wish to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic must first contact their former employer, Covenant Health at careers@covenanthealth.ca or AHS at careers@ahs.ca. Employers will send a list of names to us and we will then reach out to those identified.
CARNA exists so that the public is assured of safe, competent, ethical nursing care and excellence in nursing practice.
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Learning opportunities
Learning modules
Advance your practice with our interactive online learning modules.
Case studies
Case studies bring our standards, guidelines and policy decisions to life through short, realistic situations.
Webinars
CARNA's live webinars offer knowledge-sharing and training on a variety of topics. Webinars are recorded for future viewing.
Events and conferences
Find information on upcoming conferences, meetings, education sessions, regional events or our annual awards gala.
Knowledge Check
Check how well you understand the role of CARNA, legislation, regulation, and CARNA’s standards and guidelines that guide your practice.
Professional Practice Huddles
Professional practice huddles guide RNs and NPs in understanding CARNA nursing policy documents and emerging policy and practice topics through a participatory approach.
Explore CARNA
Registration and renewal
My permit
- Sign in to MyCARNA
- Renewing your permit
- Taking leave or retiring
- Returning to practice
- Self-employed practice
- Verification of registration
- Fees and payments
Applicants
- Internationally educated applicants
- New graduate applicants
- Canadian RN applicants
- Nurse practitioner applicants
Registration requirements
- Approved nursing education programs
- English language proficiency
- Exam requirement
- Continuing competence
- Currency of practice
- Fitness to practice (FTP)
- Jurisprudence 2020 course
- Reporting criminal history
- Protecting Patients from Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
Help
Practice and learning
Nursing practice information
- Document library
- Legislation
- Practice consultations
- Infection prevention and control
- Medical assistance in dying
- Responsibilities for distributing Take Home Naloxone Kits and Narcan® Nasal Spray (naloxone)
- Physician assistants
- Prescribing CDS for nurse practitioners
- RN competency profile
- Telehealth nursing practice
- Aesthetic nursing
- Harm reduction
- Restraints
- Immunization
- Cannabis for Medical Purposes – FAQs for RNs and NPs
- Protecting patients from sexual abuse and sexual misconduct
- RN prescribing and ordering diagnostic tests
- Collaborative practice in nursing
- Social Media and e-Professionalism
- Cervical Cancer Screening
Learning opportunities
- Learning modules
- Case studies
- Webinars
- Events and conferences
- Knowledge Check
- Professional Practice Huddles
Nursing: a call to leadership
- Make a pledge
- Share your success
- Engage
- Learn
- 2020: The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
- Virtual Conference
Other resources
Complaints and concerns
What you can do
- Make a complaint
- How to report a complaint
- Follow up on a complaint
- Employer reporting responsibilities
- Find a nurse
- Request a review of a complaint dismissal
Sexual abuse and sexual misconduct complaints
Hearings and other disciplinary matters
Complaints processes
- About investigations
- About complaint resolution agreements
- About Hearings
- Disciplinary publication framework
Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Professional Conduct Processes – 3 April 2020
About
What is CARNA?
- What we do
- Our vision, mission, and values
- Regulatory philosophy
- News
- What's nursing in Alberta like?
- CARNA regions
- Our partners
- Review of complaints processes and outcomes
- Review of approach to fitness to practise
- Review of registration process for internationally educated nurses