Healer uniform
| [ healer uniform | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | clean white clothes |
| Slot | body armor |
| Base size | medium |
| Body armor type | light |
| AC | 0 |
| DR | 1 |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties |
|
| Base price | 10 zm |
| Default weight | 30 |
| Base material | cloth |
A healer uniform is a type of body armor that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It has a base material of cloth and appears as clean white clothes when unidentified.
Generation
Healers start each game with a blessed +0 healer uniform. Drow Healers start each game with a blessed +1 white healer uniform, with the color specified to contrast it from the blue color of their other armor and clothing.
Healer uniforms are not randomly generated, though they can be wished for or found in bones.
Several monsters can be generated with healer uniforms:
- Normally-generated nurses are always generated with healer uniforms.
- Nurses in the Madman quest are always generated with yellow healer uniforms.
- Nurses in the Anachrononaut quest and Android quest always generate with +7 healer uniforms.
- Hippocrates and Vicar Amalia always generate with a blessed +5 healer uniform.
- Attendants and vergers are always generated with healer uniforms.
- Doctor Archer always generates with a yellow healer uniform.
- Contaminated patients have a 1⁄4 chance of being generated with yellow filth-encrusted healer uniforms.
- Panakeian Archons created outside the Healer quest and Drow Healer quest are always generated with healer uniforms, and those generated with endgame equipment are given healer uniforms that have the holy and healing object properties.
- Hygieian Archons created outside the Healer quest and Drow Healer quest are always generated with healer uniforms, unless they are generated with endgame equipment.
- Parasitized gynoids have a 1⁄9 chance of being generated with healer uniforms.
- Normal operators and parasitized operators have a 1⁄6 chance of being generated with healer uniforms.
- Deminymphs that receive Healer kits will be given a healer uniform with an enchantment ranging from +0 to +3.
- Lilitu generated in Gehennom or else slated for good equipment have a 1⁄6 chance of generating with a cursed +4 healer uniform.
- Iasoian Archons created outside the Healer quest and Drow Healer quest are always generated with healer uniforms.
- Player monster healers are always generated with healer uniforms.
Description
While worn, healer uniforms grant no base AC and 1 DR before enchantments, and also grant immunity to sickness. A hero wearing a healer uniform also has their modifier for emergency spells doubled: Healers, Knights, Monks, Priests, and Valkyries have their bonuses doubled, while Binders, Rangers and Tourists have their penalties doubled.
A healer uniform can be used to repair the sealed bodyglove of imperial elven body armor, granting immunity to sickness while that armor is worn.
Origin
Healer uniforms are designed after the standard garb worn by nurses. The first of these nurse uniforms were created during the mid-19th century by one Miss van Rensselaer, a student at Florence Nightingale's school of nursing—the original designes were derived from the nun's habit, as pre-19th century nuns took care of sick and injured people, and consisted of a mainly-blue outfit which later came to be mostly-white. Hospitals were free to determine the style of the nurse uniform, including the nurse's cap which exists in many forms.
Historically, a typical nurse uniform consisted of a dress, pinafore apron and nurse's cap; student nurses in some hospitals also wore a nursing pin, or occasionally replaced the pinafore apron with a cobbler-style apron. This older type of nurse's dress continues to be worn in many countries, while in Western Europe and North America, simpler blue tunics or "scrub dresses" are employed commonly in operating rooms and emergency rooms. Uniforms ultimately vary by country and role—nurse scientists may wear a lab coat, while nurse executives may wear a suit. When nurse uniforms are not unisex, men's nursing uniforms tend to differ from those of women: for example, in the United Kingdom, 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 National Health Service (NHS) trusts, the white uniform is now obsolete and uniforms are non-gender specific.
