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 ...

Caps may have started out being utilitarian (containing or protecting the hair), but they rapidly became symbolic. Affiliated with a specific training school, a nurse's cap conveyed not only where she ...

La Trobe University nursing lecturers and students from its Shepparton campus have marked International Nurses Day by dressing up in vintage uniforms. May 12 is International Nurses Day Staff and ...

Nurses in uniforms to represent each decade of the NHS pose outside Trafford Hospital to celebrate the 70th birthday of the NHS at Trafford Hospital, birthplace of the NHS (Getty Images) In ...

Nurses uniforms may soon be replaced by less conventional outfits such as pyjamas and traditional regalia. This was the warning issued by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) ...

Almost as important as the cap was the nursing school pin. In the 19th century, pins were a tradition of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where students were ...