Organizational Resources Affecting Nursing Inter-Professional Collaboration: A Qualitative Study

Organizational resources are the effective valuable resources in achieving organizational goals and predictors of interaction. This study aimed to find out the organizational resources affecting nursing inter-professional collaboration.
This qualitative study was carried out with 23 nurses from hospitals of Tehran, Tabriz, and Ilam cities, Iran. Purposive sampling was applied to select the participants. In-depth and unstructured interviews and field notes were used to collect the data. Interviews were transcribed and simultaneously analyzed using conventional content analysis method.
Three categories of "physical resource", "financial resource", and "human resource" described the characteristics of organizational resources based on participant experiences.
Organizational resources are the effective factors on nurse's inter-professional collaboration which include the supply and allocation of resources in different areas. Solving problems in this field can have positive effects.