The staff in mental institutions are required to wear distinctive name-tags.
"The staff in mental institutions are required to wear distinctive name-tags."
Yuk-yuk. There actually was a time when nurses and doctors in "mental wards" wore white uniforms, like any other hospital unit of that era. In the sixties, basically, the movement to "destigmatize' led to the replacement of uniforms with civilian garb.
The old saw has it that a visitor to a psych ward observed that staff and patients dressed alike.
He asked, "How do you tell the patients from the staff?"
The answer was, "The Patients are the ones who get better and go home!"