Nurse Uniforms: Who Cares What Nurses Wear? Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Laura A. Stokowski, RN, MS. Disclosures. April 06, 2017. The School Pin. Almost as important as the cap was the nursing ...

Twenty-first century school nurses are a far cry from the mythic lady in a crisp white uniform wielding a thermometer, ice pack and students’ home numbers. The profession has undergone enormous ...

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.

Bobby Justice, a 45-year-old nurse at an assisted-living community, said it is often hard to find uniforms to fit his 6-foot-3, 215-pound frame. But “he knows me.

Nursing uniforms are a “nonverbal, conscious statement that nurses have the skills and knowledge to care for others” (Spragley and Francis, 2006). ... Kate Shaw conducted the interviews, which lasted ...

Students were educated under the apprenticeship model, and they provided the bulk of care for hospitalized patients while wearing their training school uniforms. Few full-fledged nurses worked in ...