Introduction: In everyday practice, nurses combine both the concept of care and of cure. Background: Changes in the hospital environment alter care practices. Nurses adapt by conducting informal learning every day in order to be competent in professional situations. The way they do this resembles the way in which they show concern for others and take care of patients in care practices. Goal: This article aims to demonstrate the existing similarities between the care of the caregiver directed towards a patient and the care of the caregiver directed towards another caregiver, i.e. a peer, in informal learning in the workplace. Method: Qualitative research of a comprehensive type with a population sample of thirty nurses in two fields of inquiry, a hospital and a clinic. Two tools have been used: a log collecting nurses’ learning processes day by day for six weeks, and two interviews, one to introduce the log-filling instructions and the other to facilitate the understanding of written texts. On this occasion, care is mentioned. The results highlight the similarities between the care in caregiving activities and in learning processes, in terms of the designing of care and purpose, of taking a stance when considering the concern for others and their vulnerability. Conclusion: Care is transverse in nursing practice, whether within care itself or within learning processes.