Empowerment can be defined as a significant change in experiences of power achieved through interaction in the social world, and is built through iteration in which a person acts toward personal goals significant; draws community support, skills, knowledge and self-efficacy to achieve these goals. When people have power, they have greater influence on how services are delivered politically and socially around them. They also participate fully in these processes. However, empowering people requires adequate staff training and a support mechanism for people to participate. In this essay, emphasis will be placed on the role of nurses and midwives in meeting this very important need of society. For any community to achieve its development goal, there must be a need to adequately empower its citizens. Political and social empowerment is just one of many ways this could be achieved. This is because they are very important for the sustainable development of every community. Cattaneo (2014). The primary consideration in assessing the feasibility of community empowerment is the willingness and ability of people to engage in the process offered. Adamson, (2013). When people have pre-existing skills and abilities to participate in an empowerment program, these must be encouraged. To fully achieve complete empowerment, there would be a need to work towards a population as a whole, regardless of age, gender or culture. The healthcare environment in which nurses and midwives are typically found is one of many institutions where empowerment should be encouraged. Being products of the sociological school of teaching, they must be aware of the need to encourage patients in all phases of treatment... middle of paper... whole. While much emphasis has been placed on the healthcare sector through nurses and midwives, an ideal society includes other institutions, government agencies, business organizations, and individuals in their respective fields of endeavor, and even religious bodies. Everyone has a role to play to empower those around them who need it to bring better political and social change to society. Nonetheless, nurses and midwives can influence the health of people globally by empowering them through social justice, which has its integral parts such as fairness, fairness in distribution of power, resources, efficiency, just institutions, systemic structures, policies, rights , equity in human development, sustainability and above all healthy living standards. When everyone is engaged, society will be a better place, free of negative tendencies that generate evil.