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 ...

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 ...

NURSES have criticised the design of new NHS uniforms – calling on Health Minister Edwina Hart to sack the stylist. A letter claiming to be from the nursing staff at the University Hospital of Wales, ...

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 ...

Almost as important as the cap was the nursing school pin. In the 19th century, pins were a tradition of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where students were ...