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 ...

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 ...

Nurses have long been at the heart of medicine. Whether in bustling city hospitals or wartime field tents, nurses serve as more than caregivers; they bring a sense of calm and comfort for even the ...

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 ...

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 ...