Geisinger Medical Center will no longer allow its nurses to wear casual clothing to work after a patient survey revealed a decline in the professional appearance of its nursing staff. The 505-bed ...

Nurses at a health system in Buffalo, New York, are pushing back on a new dress code policy that would require them to wear plain gray uniforms. The update to Kaleida Health's dress code was set to go ...

A British nurse has been told her attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest woman to finish a marathon dressed as a nurse would not count if she was not wearing a dress. Records ...

Walk into almost any healthcare setting today, and you will see employees from the desk clerk to the person cleaning the bathroom wearing surgical scrubs. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, while most ...

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Hundreds of thousands of nurses do not have enough uniforms to wear a clean one for each shift, campaigners have warned. Some nurses are even forced to change in and out of their uniforms in hospital ...

Linda Richards (July 27, 1841 – April 16, 1930) is generally considered the first professionally trained nurse in the United States. Richards graduated in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women ...

Since the opening of Mater Dei Hospital in 2008, no warnings were given to employees when they failed to comply with rules stating that nurses should not travel to and from work in their uniforms.

It was the swinging sixties and a new, controversial style of nurses' uniform was unveiled - modelled by Nottingham student nurse Kathleen Melbourne. Its first appearance in the city caused quite a ...