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Maria Creed1, Michelle McGuirk, Ruth Buckley

  • 1Pharmacy Department (Ms Creed), Transformation Office (Ms McGuirk), and Quality and Patient Safety Department (Ms Buckley), Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland (Dr De Brún); National Leadership and Innovation Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director, Health Service Executive, Dublin, Ireland (Ms Kilduff).

Journal of Nursing Care Quality
|September 11, 2018
PubMed
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Streamlining hospital drug processes significantly reduced nurse journeys to the pharmacy by 44%. This efficiency improvement freed up valuable nursing time, demonstrating the impact of interprofessional collaboration on healthcare operations.

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