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Organization of work,an essential keyTurmoil, changes and the successive reorganizations in the health and socialservices sector have not ended with Bill 21 which has just come on the scene inthe institutions in the health and social services network.The deployment of Bill 21 will require adaption, accommodations, reflections andactions in our workplaces to ensure that the practice of all the professionals andnon professionals in the field of mental health and human relations takes placewithin the interdisciplinary teams concerned with the health of the population,the quality and the safety of the care and services.The explanatory document on the Bill is not a guide on organization of work.However, the latitude that the employers have in the use of their labour forceand the composition of the work teams must ensure that the reorganizationsand rearrangements imposed by Bill 21 going into effect respect professionalautonomy, competencies and the specificities of nurses and licensed practicalnurses in their valuable contribution to the health and care given to the clientelein mental health and in psychiatry.The organization of work and the care is therefore a determining factor inattaining the best results possible for this particularly vulnerable clientele.For the FIQ, a better knowledge of the scopes of practice of the healthcareprofessionals remains the key in the optimum use of their skills in all the areas ofintervention, whether it is in the community or in the hospital setting and in theresidential setting, and at all levels of dispensation of care and services: in firstline,second-line and third-line care.16