Echoes & Evidence Project

Echoes and Evidence was a project of the Barbara Bates Center for The Study of The History of Nursing designed to link historical scholarship to contemporary health policy issues. The project covered a wide variety of issues critical to understanding how our health care system developed and works.

We invite you to join us as we examine topics on nursing and healthcare history and their policy implications from the perspective of nursing; a perspective not often discussed in the public arena. We created this blog to fill a vacuum in knowledge about the rich history of nursing. The blog links those topics, history, and public policy together. Knowing what has gone before and how that affects the creation, design, and implementation of public policy is essential for enacting policies that advance the public’s health. We offer analysis, commentary, and discussion of the ways in which nursing history shaped the healthcare system today, and how such knowledge can be used to form healthcare policy of tomorrow.

Jean C. Whelan, PhD, RN, Editor in Chief

Jean C. Whelan was a leading nurse historian, president of the American Association for the History of Nursing and the assistant director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Dr. Whelan’s research centered on the historical development of U.S. nursing workforce, the issues which shaped nursing’s development and the policy implications involved in maintaining adequate nurse services.

Tiffany Hope Collier, MA, Managing Editor

Tiffany Hope Collier was the Center Administrator for the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and a freelance writer, editor, and graphic designer. Her academic work and research interests are focused on intersectionality, postcolonial criticism and theory, and film/media studies.

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