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 ...

Putting hospital nurses in brightly coloured, unconventional uniforms makes children more comfortable and parents more confident, according to a study in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical ...

Many years have passed since I was dragooned into the Army to fight the Viet Cong. In my time in the military, I was never really a strack soldier. Many years have passed since I was dragooned into ...

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, ...

A local hospital network has implemented a controversial new rule requiring nurses to wear white uniforms. Hospital officials in the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health hospital system say white ...

Before entering the locker room, a nurse approaches a large vending machine. After swiping his badge, he presses several buttons on a digital screen. He then removes a pair of correctly sized scrubs ...