Nurse Practitioner-Pharmacist Collaboration in Telehealth: Review of the Literature

Abstract

Telehealth has the potential to improve access to care, address health disparities, and make health care more equitable by removing barriers and connecting patients to a variety of providers. Telehealth also connects health professionals who may not typically be working together. Although nurse practitioners (NPs) and pharmacists are increasingly working in collaborative telehealth care settings, it is not clear how to best integrate these health care professionals and whether telehealth can be adapted to optimize NP-pharmacist collaboration and patient outcomes. This review explored pharmacist-NP collaborative projects found in the literature to understand best practices.