Law R, ‘Bridging worlds’: meeting the emotional needs of dying patients. J Adv Nurs. 2009;65(12):2630-4130
Finding 1	Dying patients could experience feelings of isolation (U)
Illustration	“Oh, they [relatives] try and make me comfortable, but at the end of the day if you were not here I’d be laying here.”(p.2636)
Finding 2	Returning home meant returning to … lonely, dying world (U)
Illustration	“You feel OK while you’re walking around the hospital grounds and suddenly you go in the car to come back and, oh, you feel you’re absolutely on your own.”(p.2635)
Finding 3	The hospital doctors and nurses, district nurses could bridge the hospital/treatment dimension of the outside world/disease/cancer dying world (U)
Illustration	“This [district nurse] provides the intermediary.”(p.2635)
Finding 4	District nurse emotionally supportive (U)
Illustration	“(DN1) [District Nurse] came yesterday at some time during the afternoon. Checking everything necessary, and we sat down for a couple of hours and told jokes and we laughed … and that is the sort of support I find is extra as far as district nursing is concerned.”(p.2637)
Finding 5	Some district nurses focused mainly on patients’ physical conditions, rather than their emotional needs (U)
Illustration	“No, no, quite, (they) focus on wound itself.”(p.2636)

U, unequivocal.