scrubs!
Dorothea Dix set the guidelines for women who volunteered to be nurses during the Civil War. They must wear drab and unhooped brown or black dresses and were not permitted to wear cosmetics or jewelry of any kind.
during the civil war workers would wear boots, apron, overalls, gloves
It will depends what they want to wear.
The north wear blue and the south wear gray
Clothes.
In Southern England, Blue Scrubs. == Neonatal nurses, like most nurses, wear scrubs when working clinically. The contrast for neonatal nurses is, that the Neonatal ICU, where neonatal nurses work, is considered a "clean" environment. This requires neonatal nurses in most hospitals to wear hospital supplied scrubs, whereas most other nurses wear their personal scrubs.
Blue
Red Cross
Most nurses in the U.S. today wear anything from "scrubs" to casual clothes depending on the office rules.
There is no standard color for nurse uniforms in the United Kingdom.Typically the senior nurses wear navy blue, the staff nurses wear a lighter blue and student nurses wear white.
Soldiers wore uniforms during the civil war so that they would know who was the union and confederate.