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 ...

In 1898, a nurse named Genevieve Joyce, when considering the eventual "death" of the nurse's cap, wrote: The possibility of [such a] fate befalling the well-loved cap is suggested by very good ...

If you need proof of a uniform that’s not exactly uniform, check out scrubs. They come in all colors, patterns and styles. There’s the exotic (animal patterns), the cheery (happy faces or hearts), the ...

The government decision to change the nurses' uniform is being implemented slowly as the majority of the health care providers are reluctant to take up their new attire. Most women staff nurses, ...

SASKATOON – A new “wear white” movement is underway to help Saskatchewan patients better identify a registered nurse. “The black and white stripes is what a registered nurse would get when they ...

Many years have passed since I was dragooned into the Army to fight the Viet Cong. In my time in the military, I was never really a strack soldier. “Strack” was Army slang describing a person of ...

Jessica Anderson, who is a nurse, was hoping to break the Guinness World Record for fastest marathon run in a nurse’s uniform at the London Marathon. She figured she would wear her actual work uniform ...

Guinness World Records has decided to recognize Jessica Anderson as the world record holder for fastest marathon by a woman wearing a nurse’s uniform after initially ruling she didn’t qualify because ...

The nurses in Maharashtra will be sporting camel-coloured uniforms for the time being, although the state's medical education and drugs department has decided on the traditional white-coloured uniform ...

In April, British nurse Jessica Anderson crossed the finish line of the London Marathon in an impressive 3:08:22 and she did it in her nurse’s uniform. Her time broke the Guinness World record for ...

Short pinafore, long stockings, cap and belle shoes – this all-white ensemble of nurses’ uniform has been there for long. But government nurses in Tamil Nadu want to have petitioned the health ...