Nurse‒physician interprofessional collaboration in the context of expanding nursing practice in primary health care: A comparative qualitative study of Brazil and Germany

Our study contributes to the literature by highlighting the opportunities and obstacles associated with interprofessional collaboration in the context of expanding nursing practice in PHC. The study highlights the willingness of both nurses and physicians to increase their level of collaboration by encouraging broader nursing practices. However, the power imbalance and hierarchical relations hinder the progress of collaboration between PHC nurses and physicians based on the logic of interprofessionality. The contrasting perspectives, which emphasize an autonomous interprofessional relationship and collaboration based on a subordinate relationship in the context of persistent medical hegemony, reflect certain contextual aspects of these health systems and conceptual approaches to care practices.