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 ...

Nursing is a very special type of job that takes a very special type of person. Florence Nightingale said of this time-honored profession: "Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it ...

ATLANTA -- It has been a half-century since the image of the hospital nurse in her crisp white uniforms, white opaque stockings and white stacked heels began vanishing from the medical landscape. Now ...

Nurses uniforms in India were first introduced by the British in the late 19th century Post-independence, many Indian nurses began wearing sarees paired with short-sleeved blouses From the 1980s, ...

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 ...