title: Barriers to achieving patient-centered care in Ireland.
abstract: In today's healthcare environment, patient care has become fragmented and impersonalized even though we desire to give person-centered care. Many factors affect the way we must deliver nursing care. This article discusses patient care in Ireland in the contemporary intensive care setting that has become more task-oriented and less patient-centered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex of the University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Amnesia104@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jacinta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007494:Ireland; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*