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 ...

In the coming months, patients and guests at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will see a more uniform and 'professional' appearance among the facility's thousands of nurses. Instead of 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 ...

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.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- She served our country in the Air Force from 2001 to 2005 before leaving the military to earn a nursing degree. Now, the emergency room nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center is ...