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 ...

Many years have passed since I was dragooned into the Army to fight the Viet Cong. In my time in the military, I was never really a strack soldier. Many years have passed since I was dragooned into ...

"Uniforms ask to be taken seriously" -- "Pretty pink dresses": creating nursing identity, 1870-1909 -- "Trained mind in a trained body": the standardization of the ...

Patients and their loved ones will immediately know which members of staff are ward leaders, matrons and senior leaders at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL).

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.