Introduction:

Empowerment is the key to personal development, increasing the capacity for self-care. However, Nursing professionals do not apply it as a tool in the permanent construction of knowledge through which they strengthen performance and professional capacity.

Objective:

To systematize the available evidence on empowerment from the context in which Nursing professionals work.

Methods:

Integrative review carried out between 2020 and 2021, of articles published in national and international journals, indexed in the Google Scholar, Handle, Scopus, Researchgate, Redalcy and Dialnet databases, in Spanish and English, between 2012 and 2021. The guiding question was developed with the acronym PICO. The search strategy was carried out using the descriptors in health sciences (DeCs) and English in (MeSH) "Empoderamiento/Empowerment", "Enfermería en salud comunitaria/Community Health Nursing", "Cuidados/Care", "Promoción de Salud /Health Promotion”, “Prevención de salud/Health Prevention”, “Desempeño/Performance” and the boolean operators AND and OR. The flowchart (PRISMA) was used. 100 articles were identified, 25 were selected. The content analysis facilitated the systematization and organization of the bibliography, classified in three dimensions, educational process, management and performance.

Conclusions:

The systematization and analysis of the empowerment conceptualizations showed diverse points of view and different positions. Empowerment was ratified as a tool in the professional performance of Nursing in health promotion and prevention. Contributes to the strengthening and enrichment of the epistemic foundations of Nursing science.

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