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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the story surfaced of Jessica Anderson, a runner declared ineligible for the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run in a nurse’s uniform because she ran it in scrubs—her actual ...

Think your doctor’s white coat is as clean as a whistle? It might not be. A study finds that dangerous germs could be lurking on nurses’ and doctors’ uniforms. Researchers from Shaare Zedek Medical ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- She served our country in the Air Force from 2001 to 2005 before leaving the military to earn a nursing degree. Now, the emergency room nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center is ...

The “scrubs” of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses often pick up disease-causing germs, including those resistant to antibiotics, a new study reports. “We know there are bad germs in hospitals, but ...

Before entering the locker room, a nurse approaches a large vending machine. After swiping his badge, he presses several buttons on a digital screen. He then removes a pair of correctly sized scrubs ...