Editing Uniform (section)

=== Medical workers ===
Uniforms can distinguish various categories of staff in medical institutions: doctors, surgeons, nurses, ancillary staff and volunteers.

Traditional female [[nurse uniform|nurses' uniforms]] resemble uniforms ([[religious habit|habits]]) worn by [[religious order]]s.<ref>
Compare: {{cite book
| last1       = Finkelman
| first1      = Anita Ward
| last2       = Kenner
| first2      = Carole
| title       = Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership
| url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4vUjpCulWYC
| publisher   = Jones & Bartlett Publishers
| date        = 2010
| isbn        = 9781449617677
| access-date = 2016-11-08
| quote       = Prior to the all-white uniform, the nurse's uniform was gray or blue, similar to a nun's habit and to the uniforms worn during Florence Nightingale's time [...].
}}
</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hardy |first1=S. |last2=Corones |first2=A. |title=The Nurse's Uniform as Ethopoietic Fashion |journal=Fashion Theory |date=2017 |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=523–552 |doi=10.1080/1362704X.2016.1203090}}</ref>

Equipment - notably [[stethoscope]]s - worn like a badge of office, may accompany or replace medical uniforms.