In the Nigerian context, the idea of conflict among various healthcare professionals especially, between doctors and nurses have been noticed to be a recurrent event. Daily conflict between healthcare professionals might take the form of mild or confrontational patterns, which leaves possibility for ineffective patients’ management. Industrial relations is one of the cardinal and topical term of interest in the field of Industrial Sociology, of which virtually every scholar within this sub-discipline has directly or indirectly contributed to its development. Therefore, as a festschrift in honour of a renowned Industrial Sociologist, Professor Salawu Bashiru who has in one way or the other contributed immeasurably in proffering solutions to the recurrent problems of interpersonal conflict in the industrial settings. This chapter in the form of a book chapter sought to review the effects of Doctor-Nurse conflict on patients' healthcare in Nigeria with a view to offering recommendations to improve on the mutual relationship towards quality healthcare of patients.