Empowerment can be defined as a significant change in experiences of power achieved through interaction in the social world, and is built in an iterative manner in which a person acts to achieve meaningful personal goals; attracts community support, skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy to move toward these goals. When people are empowered, they have greater influence over the way services are delivered, politically and socially, around them. They also fully participate in these processes. However, empowering people requires adequate training of staff and a support mechanism for people to participate. In this essay, the focus will be on the role of nurses and midwives in meeting this very important need for society. For a community to achieve its development goal, it must be necessary to adequately empower its citizens. Political and social empowerment is just one of many ways to achieve this. Indeed, they are essential to the sustainable development of each community. Cattanéo (2014). The main consideration in assessing the feasibility of community empowerment is the willingness and ability of people to engage in the proposed process. Adamson, (2013). When there are pre-existing skills and capabilities among people to participate in the empowerment program, they should be encouraged. To fully achieve complete empowerment, it would be necessary to work for a people as a whole, regardless of their age, gender or culture. The healthcare environment where nurses and midwives typically find themselves is one of many institutions where empowerment should be encouraged. Being products of the taught sociological school, they must be aware of the need to encourage patients at all stages of treatment...... middle of paper ...... all. Although the focus has been on the health sector through nurses and midwives, an ideal society includes other institutions, government agencies, businesses and individuals in their respective fields of endeavor and even religious bodies . Everyone has a role to play in empowering those around them in need to bring about better political and social change in society. However, nurses and midwives can influence the health of people globally by empowering them through social justice, which is an integral part of equity, fairness in distribution of power, resources, efficiency, just institutions, system structures, policies, rights, equity in human development, sustainability and above all healthy standards of living. When all hands are on deck, society will be a better place, free of negative tendencies that breed ills..