G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 221 Disposition versions

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221. Subject to the institution’s by-laws, clinical department heads are responsible to the council of physicians, dentists, pharmacists and midwives for

(1)  supervising the exercise of professional activities within the department by the professionals who are members of it;

(2)  cooperating, if applicable, with the director of nursing care for the supervision and monitoring of the quality of the activities referred to in section 36.1 of the Nurses Act (chapter I-8); and

(3)  drawing up, for their department, rules applicable to medical and dental care and to the use of medications, and rules applicable to midwives.

If the position of department head is vacant, the medical and professional services director exercises the functions provided for in the first paragraph.

The rules referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph must take into account the necessity of providing adequate and efficient services to users, the institution’s organizational structure and the resources available to the institution.

2023, c. 34, s. 221.