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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alicia Tulsee, founder and CEO of Moxie Scrubs, raised $2.5 million to create a brand for nurses by nurses. Up-and-coming entrepreneurs have the challenge of either finding a new, unique niche or ...

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

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.