Michaela Nuttal, MS, explores the complex culture of smoking among nurses, highlighting challenges and motivations for ...

LOUISVILLE, KY. — Samantha McCandless began smoking when she was 9 after her teenage baby sitter hooked her on cigarettes. More than a quarter-century later, despite being a nursing supervisor at a ...

There’s a fight over fashion within the Allina Health System. In May, the Minneapolis-based hospital group will start requiring workers in a dozen different job classifications to begin wearing ...

The feelings of most nurses who remember the traditional white nurse's uniform fall somewhere in the middle. At one time, they wore their uniforms proudly, and speak of them with fondness today.

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 ...

When Amanda Carter started as a registered nurse in 1982, she was proud of the uniform she wore, although from a comfort and practicality point of view it left plenty to be desired. As the number of ...

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 ...