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 ...

It’s a white coat, a cotton-blend garment worn over a dress or a shirt and tie with no extraordinary intrinsic value. Except for this: Who would you rather see standing beside your bed when you wake ...

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 ...

Guinness World Records will review its criteria for the fastest marathon by a person dressed as a nurse (yes, that’s a real thing) after a London-based nurse complained that her time didn’t qualify ...

A nurse who ran the fastest marathon in uniform has been denied a spot in the record books — because she was wearing modern-day scrubs instead of an old-fashioned nurses dress. Jessica Anderson ...

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 ...