Differing clinical pharmacy service models: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of nurse perceptions of support from pharmacists

In the last decade interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration are increasingly favoured as strategies to improve healthcare delivery. The need for collaboration is especially evident in acute care medical-surgical wards of hospitals. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, doctors and other healthcare professionals work in shifts to provide a multiplicity of services to a rapidly changing caseload of patients.Traditionally, pharmacists have been assigned to a ward or wards for which they provided all clinical services.

Source: International Journal of Nursing Studies - April 12, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Robert Bryant, Betty Chaar, Carl Schneider Source Type: research