Editing Nurse uniform (section)

==Alternative nurse uniforms==
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Since the late 1980s, there has been a move towards alternative designs of nursing uniforms in some countries. Newer style nurse's uniform in the [[United Kingdom]] consists of either:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pauldiamond.com/|title=Paul Diamond - L.L.M (University of Cambridge)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordradcliffe.nhs.uk/forpatients/inpatients/people.aspx|title=Oxford University Hospitals|first=Copyright (c) 2016 Oxford University Hospitals NHS|last=Trust}}</ref>

# A tunic-style top and dark blue trousers that are optimally designed to prevent cross-infection, the colour of which depends upon the grade (or, more recently, band) and gender of the nurse – the colour varies between NHS Trusts. The tunics often feature piping around the edges of the uniform.
# A dress in the same colour as the tunic-style top.

===Male nursing uniform===
In some countries the nurse's uniform is now gender neutral. When this is not the case, male nurses wear a different uniform to their female counterparts. In the UK, male nurses often wear a white [[tunic]] with [[epaulettes]] in a color or quantity that represents their year of training or grade. However, in many trusts the white uniform is now obsolete and uniforms are non-gender specific.


'''No Uniform'''

In some settings, for example in psychiatric inpatient units in the UK, it is common for mental health and learning disorder nurses to not wear a formal uniform.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Mental health nurses in non-uniform: Facilitator of recovery process? |year=2020 |doi=10.1111/jpm.12599 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpm.12599 |access-date=|last1=Chu |first1=Lok Yan |last2=Chang |first2=Tin Wai |last3=Dai |first3=Tsz Yuet |last4=Hui |first4=Lok |last5=Ip |first5=Hei Tung |last6=Kwok |first6=San Yuet |last7=Ying |first7=Kin Long |last8=Chan |first8=Fung Man |last9=Bressington |first9=Daniel |journal=Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=509–520 |pmid=31958205 |s2cid=210831305 }}</ref>