A hospital in southwestern Iowa is joining a national volunteer organization that pays tribute to nurses who have died or who are in hospice care. Registered nurse Sara Beth Jones spearheaded 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 ...

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 ...

Walk into almost any healthcare setting today, and you will see employees from the desk clerk to the person cleaning the bathroom wearing surgical scrubs. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, while most ...