Table 7 Quotes for Theme IV: “Feeling reassured by the nurses’ gestures”

Quote 1, Anna “they worry, look, check, ask what you. They are always there, more than the doctors, and they reassure you”

Quote 2 Gionata “they come back to see how you are, they try to find solutions, they take me for a walk”.

Quote 3 Ginevra “As a patient you understand who is the right person and with whom you can open up with. Ok that person speaks like me … you notice it from the person’s attitude”

Quote 4 Giovanni “the focus is not just on the person’s feelings, but also on the life that is out there”.

Quote 5 Simona “they don’t have much time because they’re busy doing other things and there are people who are worse off than us. I think it’s not easy to manage all this, but I think that in the future they will need to think also of those who feel a bit better”.

Quote 6 Agata“Nurses have many things to do and I think: “fatigue is difficult to deal with, for them it is an extra thing”.