Nursing

Nursing — prescribed dress within health and care.

Collection: Health and Care

Every type of health and care in one place — 5 chapters, Clinical medicine, Nursing, Allied health and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Plates from the Nametape archive of health and care

The Nurse’s Cape

Lined in a colour that identified the school, worn outdoors over a uniform designed for indoors. The cape is the only part of Victorian nursing dress that survived into living memory.
A nurse's outdoor uniform in watercolour, an American Red Cross nurse photographed in 1918, and a 1944 uniform dress