Which of the following is not a reason few nurses continue to wear starched white uniform dresses? 1) many more men are now nurses than the era when the white dress was the common uniform for nurses. 2) nurses now work with more sophisticated portable equipment that lends itself to the use of surgical scrubs rather than a formal uniform. 3) patients can never tell one nurse from another when they all dress the same. 4) when the white dress uniform was popular, nurses also wore distinctive caps which identified the school of nursing from which they graduated; when the caps were no longer practical, the shift away from the uniform was not far behind.