After a hotly contested election, nurses at the city’s biggest hospital are showing up to work in a new uniform—though some aren’t happy with the color. According to new hospital rules that kicked in ...

Nurse Jacquie Long will soon trade in one set of scrubs for another as she goes about her job in the critical-care unit at Trinity Rock Island. Long will say goodbye to her uniform top in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many years have passed since I was dragooned into the Army to fight the Viet Cong. In my time in the military, I was never really a strack soldier. “Strack” was Army slang describing a person of ...