Clinicians do not practice in a vacuum; seeking the advice and opinions of those more experienced or specialized is a mark of professional practice. Collaboration is a hallmark of advanced nursing practice and is increasingly recognized and utilized by other health professions as well. Research has targeted joint efforts of health care professionals to manage chronic disease processes such as hypertension; this is particularly true of the nurse-pharmacist relationship. The SCRIP-HTN study used a controlled, randomized design to investigate the impact of a community-based multidisciplinary intervention on blood pressure control