Mapping Nurse Mobility in Canada with GIS: Career Movements from Two Canadian Provinces

Geographical thinking in nursing inquiry, part one: locations, contents, meanings

“…A long-term consideration being area-based social determinants of health (Bushy, 1990;Edgecombe, 1999), another being distributive features of nursing workforces, including career movements. With regard to the latter, distributive features include both experiential aspects and the social, political, and economic forces that shape them at local (Brodie et al, 2005), national (Lin et al, 1997;Radcliffe, 1999;Courtney, 2005;Kovner et al, 2011;Andrews et al, 2013;Harris et al, 2013;McGillis Hall et al, 2013;Cho et al, 2014), and international and global scales (Buchan et al, 1997;Buchan, 2001;Kingma, 2001Kingma, , 2006Kingma, , 2007Kingma, , 2008Kline, 2003;Aiken et al, 2004;Ross et al, 2005;Brush & Sochalski, 2007;McGillis Hall et al, 2009;Bach, 2015;George, 2015). A third consideration meanwhile is the distributive qualities and concerns of particular client and population groups nurses have responsibility for (see Gesler et al, 2004;Moss & Schell, 2004;Hodgins & Wuest, 2007;Thomas, 2013a).…”

I Was Never Recruited: Challenges in Cross-Canada Nurse Mobility

“…The objective of this study was to map the mobility patterns and identify the basic motivations for mobility of Canadian nurses across the P/T to work. The mobility patterns are described in a separate paper in this issue of the journal (Andrews et al 2013). This paper focuses on presenting the results of the research questions conducted through a survey aimed at identifying the factors that influence nurses to leave their home P/T to work in another, and the facilitators that can be employed to retain nurses in Canada.…”