Investigating Collaborative Strategies Between Nurses and Pharmacists in Saudi Hospitals

Abstract

The World Health Organization emphasizes the importance of teamwork in the provision of healthcare services to hospitals with integrated approaches. Chronic conditions and healthcare reforms make collaborative care particularly important in the context of Saudi hospitals. In this paper the authors emphasize and explore collaborative efforts, solely between the nursing and pharmacy professions, measure the effect of these efforts and their results on patients, address their barriers, and list measures for their overcoming. Increasingly, research is devoted to such cooperative processes as interprofessional teamwork in the provision of those or other services. Through the analysis of prevailing patterns, showcases, and the contribution of cultural and technological facilitators of teamwork, the work seeks to find what makes interprofessional collaboration effective, or what are the impediments to its efficiency. Some of the recommendations include: integration of inter-professional education, technology use, and promotion of leadership involvement to support interprofessional collaboration. The findings of the study explain how the collaboration between nurses and pharmacists can help to reduce the number of medication errors, improve compliance, and enhance patient satisfaction after treatment. The study provides information on how to achieve improved health outcomes through more effective health care provision in Saudi hospitals thus contributing to national level health transformation goals.