The feelings of most nurses who remember the traditional white nurse's uniform fall somewhere in the middle. At one time, they wore their uniforms proudly, and speak of them with fondness today.

From Florence Nightingale to Nurse Ratched, pristine white uniforms and crisply starched caps once made the American nurse instantly recognizable. But that iconic image is now a relic of the past. As ...

Michelle Carrick won't buy scrubs that don't have pockets. "Nurses need them," said Carrick, a registered nurse at Jennings Center for Older Adults. In them she stows alcohol pads, scissors, adhesive ...

Nurses often have strong feelings about their uniforms. This study examined student nurses’ views and how to balance modernity with nursing’s heritage AbstractShaw K, Timmons S (2010) Exploring how ...

There’s a fight over fashion within the Allina Health System. In May, the Minneapolis-based hospital group will start requiring workers in a dozen different job classifications to begin wearing ...

If you need proof of a uniform that’s not exactly uniform, check out scrubs. They come in all colors, patterns and styles. There’s the exotic (animal patterns), the cheery (happy faces or hearts), the ...

Question: For many years, nurses wore caps. Now they don’t seem to wear them anymore. Why did they stop? Answer: Once an integral part of a nurse’s uniform, caps began disappearing in the 1960s, ...

Think your doctor’s white coat is as clean as a whistle? It might not be. A study finds that dangerous germs could be lurking on nurses’ and doctors’ uniforms. Researchers from Shaare Zedek Medical ...

But nursing was changing: It was becoming a profession with standards of education, practice, behavior, and dress all its own. It is possible that as nurses began to see themselves as trained ...