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 ...

A British nurse who was originally denied a world record for running the fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform -- because she wore scrubs instead of a skirt -- will get her title after Guinness World ...

When thinking of medical scrubs, a fashion-forward fit may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Even Dr. Meredith Grey herself isn’t safe from the infamously boxy uniform. But thanks to Figs, ...

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 ...

There’s a fight over fashion within the Allina Health System. In May, the Minneapolis-based hospital group will start requiring workers in a dozen different job classifications to begin wearing ...

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.

Many hospitals have established color-coded uniform requirements. This practice means that a department's doctors, nurses and other medical workers wear differently ...

But there’s one stereotype to which I do fall prey. And that is my notion that among the smartest, most competent, and terrific group of entrepreneurs I know are former nurses. Nurses? Yes, nurses. In ...

Sep. 11—Scrub Hub, a program launched by Jacki Jewell, executive director of the Visiting Nurses Foundation, and her mother, Lorri Speer, the nursing assistant program director at Centralia College, ...

Before entering the locker room, a nurse approaches a large vending machine. After swiping his badge, he presses several buttons on a digital screen. He then removes a pair of correctly sized scrubs ...