Almost as important as the cap was the nursing school pin. In the 19th century, pins were a tradition of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where students were ...

We were inspired by a recent academic editorial that delved into the profound symbolism and evolving nature of nursing uniforms. From the crisp, white veils and starched aprons of decades past to the ...

"Uniforms ask to be taken seriously" -- "Pretty pink dresses": creating nursing identity, 1870-1909 -- "Trained mind in a trained body": the standardization of the ...