The move to all-white uniforms for nurses—what many consider the traditional look—did not happen overnight. Historical photographs reveal that many nurses were wearing entirely white uniforms in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. The Journal's mission is to promote excellence in professional nursing, with a global ...

"Uniforms ask to be taken seriously" -- "Pretty pink dresses": creating nursing identity, 1870-1909 -- "Trained mind in a trained body": the standardization of the ...

Patients and their loved ones will immediately know which members of staff are ward leaders, matrons and senior leaders at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL).

Sheer dresses and short skirts may have been scandalous, but they were still a variation on the established theme of white dresses. Wearing pants was more daring, as well as significant. This was not ...