medical scrubs

The nurse uniform is worn for hygienic reasons and to distinguish nursing staff. A nurse uniform is immediately recognizable even though it has seen many variations over the years. It traditionally consisted of a dress, apron and a cap. As time went by, there have been many changes made but the basic dress still remains the same.

Nurses wear nurse uniforms in the hospitals they administer patients in, for hygiene and professional identification purposes. The traditional nursing uniform ensembles comprised of a dress, an apron, a cap, which came in different varieties and forms. This attire was designed to look like the nuns’ custom but the uniform for the nurses has since undergone many changes in different parts of the world. In most countries, nurses wear scrubs as their professional attire.