Table 2.

Themes and subthemes

Final theme	Themes	Sub-themes
Patient-centered care in the shadow of paternalism	Organizational structure as a barrier to the patient-centered care	Ignoring patient preferences caused by structural problems
		The priority of nonnursing tasks
		Reverse protection replaces informed consent
	Lack of institutionalization of the patient-centered care in nurses	Nurses are task-centered, not patient-centeredness
		Lack of concern about the patient’s preferences and desires
		Nurse dissatisfaction with patient and family involvement
	Understanding and paying attention to the patient as patient-centered care	Understanding the patient; A feature of the cancer nurse
		Behavioral manifestations of the nurses’ understanding of the patient
	Situational patient-centered care	Nursing care is patient-centeredness if conditions are favorable
		Ignoring the patient-centered care in critical situations