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 ...
In the coming months, patients and guests at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will see a more uniform and 'professional' appearance among the facility's thousands of nurses. Instead of the ...
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 ...
No doubt, the most intimidating and yet most fascinating part of any hospital is the operating room. Tile walls, bright lights and the smell of sterility are the backdrops upon which life-and-death ...
Nurses at a Wiltshire hospital are exchanging uniforms for scrubs to cut healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles, learning units ...
SPOKANE, Wash. - Finding ways to bring fun to the demanding medical profession is the goal of a local "scrub swap" event. Julie Blaakman, the owner of The CareShop and a medical field veteran of over ...
North Bristol NHS Trust has announced that scrubs are being introduced for nurses as part of a programme to standardise staff uniforms. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical articles ...
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 ...
Latex, scrubs, stethoscopes — the Atlanta-area Piedmont Fayette Hospital isn’t running your average summer camp. It’s nurse camp, and — according to its founder — some high schoolers are taking ...