Nightingale And The Professionalization Of Nursing In Spain

The History of Contemporary Nursing in Spain is being rethought by multiple historians, who fight against the distortions that have distorted the nursing identity in history. Taking as a starting point the "Escuela de Enfermeras de Santa Isabel de Hungria" (1896), founded by Rubio y Gall and taking as a reference the Nightingale Training School (1860); This study shows some of the evidence on how the professionalization of Nursing in Spain followed the same process as nursing in other countries. Analyzing the historical information from the gender perspective, it is shown how the ideological origin of Professional Nursing in Spain coincides with the nursing teaching model promulgated by Nightingale. A training system that came to our country, through the surgeon Rubio y Gall, but framed in a paternalistic model and a social vision of women anchored in the maternal and domestic sphere.