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 ...

Thunder Bay, Ont. — When Serena Orok is away from her duties as a registered nurse at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, she operates her growing business Lux Scrubs. Orok and her ...

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 ...

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.

Sep. 11—Scrub Hub, a program launched by Jacki Jewell, executive director of the Visiting Nurses Foundation, and her mother, Lorri Speer, the nursing assistant program director at Centralia College, ...

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 ...

Before entering the locker room, a nurse approaches a large vending machine. After swiping his badge, he presses several buttons on a digital screen. He then removes a pair of correctly sized scrubs ...

Many hospitals have established color-coded uniform requirements. This practice means that a department's doctors, nurses and other medical workers wear differently ...

The “scrubs” of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses often pick up disease-causing germs, including those resistant to antibiotics, a new study reports. “We know there are bad germs in hospitals, but ...