Objective

Conceptualize about the definition and importance of mentoring as a strategy to promote adolescent empowerment and the relationship with interventions developed from the field of nursing in health promotion through a review of published works.

Materials and methods

A search was conducted using the following descriptors in health sciences: (1) mentoring, (2) empowerment for health, (3) reproductive health, (4) adolescent, (5) health strategies, articles published in English and Spanish between 2013-2019 in journals indexed in electronic databases: Bvs, Tripdatebase, Pubmed and Scielo, analyzing those that support mentoring as a nursing strategy to increase adolescent empowerment in reproductive health.

Results

The findings in the research confirm the importance of mentoring as a strategy to promote adolescent empowerment as well as the increase in autonomy, effectiveness; it improves teenagers’ knowledge and gives them tools to feel prepared, make better decisions and face important situations related to their sexual health.

Conclusions

The mentoring educational strategy represents an effective tool in adolescent sexual education; it improves the knowledge of adolescents and gives them tools to feel prepared, to make better decisions and face important situations related to their sexual and reproductive health, in addition to nursing promotes professional and personal development.