The government’s authorization only concerns nurses who work in or on behalf of a public institution:

• A public, non-merged institution: CHU, IU and institute;
• A CIUSSS or CISSS: CH, CLSC, public CHSLD, CPEJ, CR;
• A public institution serving a northern and indigenous population.

On the other hand, the ministerial order does not cover a nurse who practices on behalf of one of the following settings:

• Private, subsidized and non-subsidized CHSLD;
• RPA;
• RI-RTF.

The ministerial order authorizes a nurse working for a public institution, acting on behalf of the institution, to attest to the death of an adult person, draw up an attestation of death and fill out the death certificate when she practises in a non-covered setting.

The following page on the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux website explains and maps out the institutions and centres considered as public institutions and settings that are not: Portrait organisationnel du réseau