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 ...

Caps may have started out being utilitarian (containing or protecting the hair), but they rapidly became symbolic. Affiliated with a specific training school, a nurse's cap conveyed not only where she ...

A hospital in southwestern Iowa is joining a national volunteer organization that pays tribute to nurses who have died or who are in hospice care. Registered nurse Sara Beth Jones spearheaded the ...

The nurses in Maharashtra will be sporting camel-coloured uniforms for the time being, although the state's medical education and drugs department has decided on the traditional white-coloured uniform ...

The Telangana Nurses Association has requested a change in uniforms for state-run hospitals, advocating for grey or ash-colored scrubs instead of white sarees or salwar kurtas. They argue that the ...

It was the swinging sixties and a new, controversial style of nurses' uniform was unveiled - modelled by Nottingham student nurse Kathleen Melbourne. Its first appearance in the city caused quite a ...

Walk into almost any healthcare setting today, and you will see employees from the desk clerk to the person cleaning the bathroom wearing surgical scrubs. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, while most ...