Objective:

our objective in this study has been to document the parallelism in the nursing care administered by Isabel Zendal and Florence Nightingale during their stay at the Hospital de la Caridad and in Escutari.

Methods:

a narrative bibliographic review was carried out through secondary sources and a historical investigation through documentary and hermeneutic observation of the primary sources. To locate and choose the primary sources both the Provincial Council Archive and the Historical Municipal Archive of A Coruña were consulted. Both Academic Google and data basis such as Cuiden, Scielo and Dialnet were used to locate the secondary sources.

Results-Conclusions:

in spite of the space and time distance, the bibliography and document analysis show many similarities regarding the attentions given by both nurses. However, the credit given to each one attracts the attention. We believe that they are the different social, educational and economic factors which determine that difference.