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An exploration of the role of the nurses' uniform through a period of non‐uniform wear on an acute medical ward
Author(s) -
Sparrow Shelagh
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01505.x
Subject(s) - clothing , perception , nursing , period (music) , variety (cybernetics) , nursing staff , medicine , work (physics) , psychology , mechanical engineering , engineering , physics , archaeology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science , acoustics , history
The nursing staff on an acute medical hospital ward elected to wear their own clothes to work for a period of 2 months The trial was evaluated using a variety of research methods and it raised a number of issues about the role of uniform, about patients' perceptions of nurses and nurses' perceptions of their role The study has led to questions being raised about the assumptions that are made if uniform is worn and the appropriateness of a uniform dress