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 ...

The nurses in this 1928 image wear a traditional uniform for the era, complete with cape, cap and pinafore apron. They are standing near Saint Joseph’s Hospital in South Bend, at a time when hospitals ...

National Nurses Week is May 6-12, and nurses at St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino observed the week by spending a day wearing traditional white nurses’ uniforms that were common until ...

Abstract Shaw K, Timmons S (2010) Exploring how nursing uniforms influence self image and professional identity. Nursing Times; 106: 10, early online publication. Background Uniforms are thought to ...

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 ...

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 ...