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Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health
Print version ISSN 0873-3015On-line version ISSN 1647-662X
Abstract
SEGURO, José Miguel; BATALHA, Luís Manuel and FERNANDES, Maria Isabel. Interprofessional pharmaceutical care: the physician's view of the nurse's work. Mill [online]. 2023, n.20, e27114. Epub Apr 25, 2023. ISSN 0873-3015. https://doi.org/10.29352/mill0220.27114.
Introduction:
In pharmaceutical care (PC), multiple professionals interact with unclear role boundaries and significant variability across contexts and countries.
Objective:
To identify Portuguese physicians’ views on nurses’ roles in interprofessional PC.
Methods:
Qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study with an intentional selection of eight physicians with experience in PC. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed according to Polit and Beck (2019).
Results:
In interprofessional PC, nurses are involved in the preparation, administration, monitoring, and prescription of medication, as well as patient/caregiver education. There are some reservations about nurses prescribing medication, although some admit this possibility under specific conditions. Physicians highlighted the nurse-patient/caregiver relationship as strength and the training in pharmacotherapy as a weakness.
Conclusion:
The nursing activity in PC fits into five areas of care. Nurses prescribing medication in specific situations can become a reality if nurses’ training in pharmacotherapy accompanies this evolution.
Keywords : pharmaceutical care; medication management; interprofessional collaboration; teamwork; nursing.