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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the coming months, patients and guests at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will see a more uniform and 'professional' appearance among the facility's thousands of nurses. Instead of the ...

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. “Strack” was Army slang describing a person of ...

It is time to stop focusing on nurse uniform as a means of professional identity, and to base our self worth on the importance of the profession’s work, argues Sara Morgan The nursing uniform debate ...

Nursing uniforms are a “nonverbal, conscious statement that nurses have the skills and knowledge to care for others” (Spragley and Francis, 2006). However, wearing uniform does not automatically mean ...

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 ...