Nurse uniform
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Nurses usually wear a uniform while working in a clinical setting. The uniform is worn for hygiene as well as identification purposes.
The women in the bottom photograph are student nurses, wearing a uniform consisting of a dress, pinafore apron and nursing cap. There are however variations, and in some hospitals, student nurses also wear a nursing pin, or the pinafore apron may have been replaced by a cobbler style apron. A "scrub dress" is a simpler type of uniform, sometimes worn in operating rooms.
The traditional nurse uniform remains common, but in Western Europe and North America so called "scrubs" have become more popular. It has been argued that the wearing of uniforms by nurses is unnecessary in terms of hygiene, for example, and may be more to do with a medically-dominated, hierarchical system in hospital settings, and the military roots of nursing. Also, there is no clear alternative to the traditional white dress and cap for male nurses. However, some favor a return to the old style of nursing uniforms in the USA and the UK so that patients and other staff can readily identify who is a nurse and who is not, as physicians, various allied health professionals, nursing assistants and orderlies, and housekeeping staff often wear scrubs.
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