Caps may have started out being utilitarian (containing or protecting the hair), but they rapidly became symbolic. Affiliated with a specific training school, a nurse's cap conveyed not only where she ...

Blouse 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 ...

Twenty-first century school nurses are a far cry from the mythic lady in a crisp white uniform wielding a thermometer, ice pack and students’ home numbers. The profession has undergone enormous ...

What happens when the concepts of utilitarianism, historicism, futurism, art and nursing collide? They produce "RN: The Past, Present and Future of the Nurses' Uniform," a fascinating ...

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 ...