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 ...

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 ...

Nursing uniforms are a “nonverbal, conscious statement that nurses have the skills and knowledge to care for others” (Spragley and Francis, 2006). However, wearing uniform does not automatically mean ...

Sep. 11—Scrub Hub, a program launched by Jacki Jewell, executive director of the Visiting Nurses Foundation, and her mother, Lorri Speer, the nursing assistant program director at Centralia College, ...

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.

Thunder Bay, Ont. — When Serena Orok is away from her duties as a registered nurse at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, she operates her growing business Lux Scrubs. Orok and her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kate Shaw, MNursSci, RN, is staff nurse, Nottingham University Hospitals, City Campus; Stephen Timmons, PhD, MSc, MA, MA, PGCAP, BA, is associate professor, School of ...