Medscape reader Patti Mitchell describes the day she first got to wear her new graduate nurse uniform: I was so proud to wear this white uniform. I continued to wear it (along with my cap ...

The white uniform signified purity and cleanliness. In most American hospitals today, you'd be hard-pressed to find even one nurse wearing a cap or a white uniform. Mary Blankenship, nursing ...

spokeswoman for the Georgia Nurses Association Foundation. As the profession evolved, so did the uniforms, and the cap became an impractical accessory, she says. The white starched cap ...

Jessica Anderson was training for the London Marathon when she noticed that her time was close to the world record for a woman wearing a nurse’s uniform (3 hours, 8 minutes, 54 seconds ...

Modern nursing uniforms, as we know them, date to the Crimean War, and made the image of Florence Nightingale in a white dress, apron, and angular cap iconic. This uniform gave a visual identity ...

"I look back now and think, it was an honour to train as a nurse and wear a nurse's uniform and have my cap on. "But I think we've evolved as a society and we all have equal parts to play in the ...

The 2015 record-holder had worn a blue and white striped dress, an apron and a Red Cross cap. But Ms ... anger on social media. Nurses posted photos of their real uniforms on Twitter with # ...

Nurse Jessica Anderson made headlines earlier this year with her attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Record’s record for the fastest marathon in a nurse’s uniform at the London Marathon.

“If you look at a typical nurse costume for a child, the uniform often comes with a cape and hat” Colin McNulty On Wednesday, NHS Grampian brought child-size versions of nursing uniforms into Braehead ...

The uniforms have evolved throughout the healthcare ... However, by the 1990s the nurse's cap was no more, with some claiming that the accessory could potentially carry bacteria.

[2] A black velvet band encircling the cap typically signified ... covering the entire uniform. The collar was embroidered with the nurse's initials and/or the name of her training school (Figure ...