[Strategies of power and leadership for the development of nurses' social compromise]

This article presents an analysis about power and leadership regarding the nursing profession in Spain and poses some strategies which, from the aforementioned perspective, allow the compromise nurses have with society to develop. This article has three sections: one which defines terms such as power, leadership, representative, corporation, ...; a second section which analyzes and makes proposals, wherein the current situation of the nursing profession is described in relation with the elements defined as the shapers of professional power, and proposals are posed along the lines of one to demand clear guidelines for nurses' professional role, to act in a "corporational" way, in positive terms, or to recognize the importance "informal" power networks hold; and finally, a section of conclusions.