The cap's original purpose was to keep the nurse's hair neatly in place and present a modest appearance.
Through the 1980s, nurses wore:completely white uniform, either dress, skirt and top or slacks and topfemale nurses wore white hosiery (knee high with slacks; pantyhose with dresses/skirts)white nursing capwhite nursing shoesNurses in pediatrics wore scrubs with kid-friendly printed scrub top.Today, nurses wear colored "scrubs", often with a scrub top that has some happy or whimsical print on it. No nurses wear their nursing caps now.Many nurses in administrative roles wear dress clothes and shoes (not white; not scrubs).
It is generally believed that the reason a nurses uniform is white, is because it represents cleanliness and purity. Most places today have done away with white uniforms and use scrubs in different colors.
In Southern England, Blue Scrubs. == Neonatal nurses, like most nurses, wear scrubs when working clinically. The contrast for neonatal nurses is, that the Neonatal ICU, where neonatal nurses work, is considered a "clean" environment. This requires neonatal nurses in most hospitals to wear hospital supplied scrubs, whereas most other nurses wear their personal scrubs.
The caps that Amish women wear are commonly called "prayer caps" or "head coverings." These caps are typically white and are worn as a symbol of modesty and humility.
Girls wear caps to school for the same reasons boys do. They could just like to wear caps, they might be on a sports team, or any variety of reasons, but mainly they wear them because they want to.
There is no standard color for nurse uniforms in the United Kingdom.Typically the senior nurses wear navy blue, the staff nurses wear a lighter blue and student nurses wear white.
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scrubs
Actually, nurses wear there scrubs loose. It doesn't mater what they look like.
they usually wear scrubs
no that's a plant.
Stocking caps, baseball caps, almost any hat will do.