“…A range of relationships have been described including how places are attributed symbolic identity by, and in relation to, nurses (Savage, 1997;Halford and Leonard, 2003;Cheek, 2004;Gilmour, 2006), and thus how places characterise and express particular professional nursing specialisms. Place has been positioned as crucial to the nature of mental health care (Montgomery, 2001;Andes and Shattell, 2006), community health (Bender et al, 2007), home care (Duke and Street, 2003), gerontology and geriatrics (Cheek, 2004) and midwifery (Lock and Gibb, 2003). Other studies have investigated the dynamics between places and nurse-patient decisions, ethics, interactions and relationships (Purkis, 1996;Malone, 2003;Bucknall, 2003;Peter and Liaschenko, 2004;Shattell et al, 2008;Seto-Nielsen et al, 2013).…”