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.

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 ...

Geisinger Medical Center will no longer allow its nurses to wear casual clothing to work after a patient survey revealed a decline in the professional appearance of its nursing staff. The 505-bed ...

There’s a fight over fashion within the Allina Health System. In May, the Minneapolis-based hospital group will start requiring workers in a dozen different job classifications to begin wearing ...

Nurses at a health system in Buffalo, New York, are pushing back on a new dress code policy that would require them to wear plain gray uniforms. The update to Kaleida Health's dress code was set to go ...

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. Many years have passed since I was dragooned into ...

Sheer dresses and short skirts may have been scandalous, but they were still a variation on the established theme of white dresses. Wearing pants was more daring, as well as significant. This was not ...