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 ...

Skirt from student nurse uniform worn by the donor's mother, Althea Lane De Camp, of Chester, New Jersey, when she trained at Passaic General Hospital, 1897-1899. De Camp was part of the first class ...

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 ...

But nursing was changing: It was becoming a profession with standards of education, practice, behavior, and dress all its own. It is possible that as nurses began to see themselves as trained ...