“…Usually working at the meso-and macro-scales, scholars have used statistical models, probability testing and other approaches to find spatial patterns in health and health care phenomenon important to nurses. Empirically, attention has focused, for example, on area-based social determinants of health (Bushy, 1990;Edgecombe, 1999), and on the distributive fea tures of nursing workforces and the social, political and economic forces that shape them at local (Brodie et al, 2005), national (Kovner et al, 2011;Harris et al, 2013;Cho et al, 2014) and international scales (Buchan, 2001;Kingma, 2006;Kline, 2003;Aiken et al, 2004;Brush and Sochalski, 2007;Bach, 2015). A third focus has been the distributive qualities and concerns of particular client and population groups that nurses have responsibility for (see Moss and Schell, 2004;Hodgins and Wuest, 2007;Thomas, 2013b).…”