One Patient's View of Nurse Uniforms
During the summer of 1969, when thousands of young people held an outdoor rock concert in New York State, the nature of most nurse uniforms contrasted markedly with the attire worn by the music-loving concert goers. At that time, the majority of nurses white white uniforms. Moreover, one seldom saw a nurse who had chosen to wear pants, instead of a dress. Five years later, in 1974, a woman who had been hospitalized in 1969 found herself back in the hospital. That same woman noticed that nurse uniforms had undergone a number of marked changes. Before the halfway point of the 1970s, nurses discovered that they could perform the regular duties much easier by wearing pants, instead of a dress. By 1974, a hospital patient saw more nurseries wearing pants, than nurses attired in some type of uniformly designed dress. By 1974, a hospital patient saw a good deal more color, when a health professional entered the room. By 1974, nurses had ...