Editing Nurse uniform (section)

==History==
[[File:Student Nurse- Life at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, 1943 D12809.jpg|right|thumb|This nurse's uniform consists of a "spotless apron and a practical but attractive mob cap, made simply from a plain triangle of linen". 1943.]]
[[File:Nurse uniform from WWI, Serbia.jpg|thumb|A nurse uniform in Serbia during World War I]]
The first nurse uniforms were derived from the nun's habit. Before the 19th century, nuns took care of sick and injured people so it was obvious that trained lay nurses might copy the nun's habit as they have adopted ranks like "Sister". One of [[Florence Nightingale]]'s first students (Miss van Rensselaer) designed the original uniform for the students at Miss Nightingale's school of nursing. Before the 1940s minor changes occurred in the uniform. The clothing consisted of a mainly blue outfit. Hospitals were free to determine the style of the nurse uniform, including the nurse's cap which exists in many variants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cheddletonmemories.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614021701/http://www.cheddletonmemories.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 June 2008|title=History of Cheddleton (St. Edwards) Mental Hospital since 1900|access-date=6 December 2009}}</ref><ref>Hardy, Susan and Corones, Anthony, "The Nurse's Uniform as Ethopoietic Fashion", ''Fashion Theory'', Vol.21, No.5. (2015), pp. 523-552. [https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2016.1203090 doi=10.1080/1362704X.2016.1203090]</ref>

In [[United Kingdom|Britain]], the national uniform (or simply "national") was designed with the advent of the [[National Health Service]] (NHS) in 1948, and the Newcastle dress.{{Clarify|date=December 2009}} From the 1960s open necks began to appear. In the 1970s, white disposable paper caps replaced cotton ones; in the 1980s, plastic aprons displaced the traditional ones and outerwear began to disappear. From the 1990s, scrubs became popular in Britain, having first appeared in the USA; however, some nurses in Britain continue to wear dresses, although some NHS trusts have removed them in favour of [[scrubs (clothing)|scrubs]] as in many other countries.