But nursing was changing: It was becoming a profession with standards of education, practice, behavior, and dress all its own. It is possible that as nurses began to see themselves as trained ...

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 ...

After months of discussions and feedback, he says, about 5,500 of the 8,500 staff who would be affected by the mandate voted to pick their colors in a December ballot. "We had good turnout, about 60%.

As Hennepin EMS prepares to unveil its new blue uniforms, after decades of showing up at emergency scenes in trademark "UPS brown," the paramedics union argued Wednesday that the change could put ...

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 ...